CERES Harvest Festival

 

How quickly the year has passed since I went to last year’s Harvest Festival. I am happy to say that I regularly visit CERES for a variety of reasons, however yesterday I was involved in the Greens stall and it was a lot of fun. It was great to speak to a number of people from overseas and from Germany in particular. I say this because when I lived in Germany many years ago, in Ladenburg, which is a small town on the Neckar river, between Heidelberg and Mannheim, the idea of Harvest Festival (Erntedankfest) was very much a part of life and I remembered that fondly yesterday.

 

Mirabella 2 or writing in strange places

Yesterday as I walked past the Mirabella Lighting store, I noticed a small message written on the rim of a pavement lid. I had never noticed it before, yet it looks as though it has been there for a while. Obviously another admirer of Mirabella lights. The text says "there is a light that never goes out" then there is a heart and then a word I cannot make out. Have you walked past, seen it and wondered who wrote it?
A while ago I photographed these lines, written on the glass of a window that no longer exists as the site is being redeveloped. Coincidentally, it was next door to Mirabella. Perhaps it was part of a poetry installation or perhaps someone had just put them there.