Feuervogel

Dear Friends

I never watched the sky here in Munich in the hope to recognize a Phoenix or the spitfire Smaug. But yesterday I noted a Fire Bird (Feuervogel). Suspended without weight, he  navigated the sky quietly in its red, blue, yellow and white livery for the pleasure of the many observers. Its 30x prodigious zoom let my Coolpix 9700 preferable to my Galaxy S7 (only 8x zoom) for documenting Fire Bird to you. Your comments are welcomed.

Salutations

Giancarlo

White Smokers

Dear Friends

I think that you all know the Black Smokers, named also Hydrothermal Vents, buried in the depths of the Oceans, hosting colonies of big, strange creatures. But I think that nobody of you was aware, as me too I was, of the Munich White Smokers (see the images). Remarked fleetingly in the past (see in this blog: Deluge in Austria and Munich) apparently they proliferate. Not columnar but flat, not deep buried but on the terrain, not difficult but easy to analyse, apparently not hosting strange creatures, their Geothermal Activity is characterised by warm, about 50° C, white smoke. Comments are welcomed.   

Salutations

Giancarlo

Asparagus omelette

Dear Friends

unfortunately, I don't like neither white Asparagus, nor green Asparagus but I like a lot Ornithogalum pyrenaicum named also wild Asparagus. Why not to play M.POlo Chef omelette together.

This is the Asparagus omelette receipe for one person.

In a frying pan add Olive oil. Let the oil heat-up at living fire. Add a sufficient quantity of Cherry tomatoes and cherry Onions of your choice. Cover the pan with a cover and let cook few minutes. Mix, turn and add palm dates, dried figs cutted in slices, pine nuts, garlic. Cover again the pan and let cook few minutes. Break the shell of three eggs and let them fall in the pan. Cover again the pan and let cook few minutes. Flavour with Cajun or Black pepper judiciously or generously according to your preference. Dispose a sufficient quantity of wild asparagus over the preparation (see the images), cover the pan and estinguish the fire. Let warm few minutes. If correctly timed, the vegetables remains slightly crunchy and preserve their flavoures.

Serve in adequate dishes. Preparation time: about 12 min. Proposed wine: Amarone della Valpolicella .

Sautations

Giancarlo

 

 

Calmness after the Storm

Dear Friends

bad wether, but very bad, last Thursday. White Lightnings and deep Thunders preceded the sudden roar of  a severe Hailstorm that scourged Munich (see the images). For the second time in my life, this nature show, made me spellbound, unable to leave and in pray for no damages. The end produced sustained Rain which deleted all and let place to a long, deep Calmness. Comments are welcomed.

Salutations

Giancarlo

Clouds' Talks

Dear Friends

notwithstanding living in Munich by many years, only now I see that it is an ideal place to study Clouds' 

morphology and talks. Sometime their shapes clearly argument about running Lions, pursuits of Dragons, quite swimming Sirens (see the images). Sometime the talks are so obscure to mask the Sun.

Comments are welcomed.

Salutations

Giancarlo