Pieter Bruegel Revisited - Silver Lake

Hello New Year!

Having spent the morning in the snuggery (Stube?!) , watching the New Years Concert with the handsome conductor Franz Welser Möst, eating salmon, creamcheese, freshly squeezed orange juice and croissants, we put on our warm jackets and left the house.

After yesterday's discovery - the lake side - I searched for another lake, one that would provide sun during the late afternoon and what an enjoyable lake we found: Silver Lake.

Mr Bruegel, those images you painted - they come to life, almost 500 years after you painted the "Hunters in the Snow".

Image:Brueghel the elder - Hunters in the snow.jpg

I justed found out that this painting hangs in Vienna! And even better, starting January 22, they offer guided tours for children, where they expain the first real winter painting, showing people curling, skating and playing hockey. In 1565!!!

Today they served hot punch and tea on the ice. Parents pulled their toddlers on sledges criss cross and we walked around and across the lake until the sun set.



The Damier Azur design is meant to be a pattern mainly for the summer months. Louis Vuitton releases its new Azur purses mainly in spring. I thought of it as a summery purse too, just until I discovered that the vachetta suffers way more from oily sweaty hands than it suffers from gloves and chilly winds. By suffering I am not talking about the beautiful patina but dirt stains on the handles.
After today I am convincedit is the perfect all-year-around-purse. The design compliments the light- temperature (kelvin) after a sunset on a winter day so nicely.

Since there was no hiking at all during todays events, I simply label the posting with Fashion. :-)