Wicker Beach Chair

Sender: Alienne

Text on card: Wicker Beach Chair in Ahrenshoop on the Darss.

Ahrenshoop is a popular Baltic resort. Most of the Darss is covered by woodlands but this card shows part of its coastline. Funny how we can look at a beach view and know that it is not a beach in our home country...Maybe it's something about the sand, the landscape...and  for sure, that wicker chair! We don't have wicker chairs by our beaches :)

Flowery Pergola

Sender: Kitty

"Tall, whispering trees their shadows fling 

Athwart the trellised path I tread, 

And incense-breathing roses swing 

Their pendent censers o’er my head. 

What Moorish ceiling e’er excelled 

This arbor, roofed with cups of gold? 

What Eastern casket ever held 

The perfume which their leaves unfold? 

 Fair chalices of bloom, swing low, 

And touch my lips with odors sweet! 

Enfold me in your ardent glow, 

While petals flutter to my feet! 

 Let, for to-day, the dream remain 

That life is rose-hued, like this aisle,

— A fragrant pathway, free from pain, 

With every sun-kissed flower a smile!" 

(exerpt from "In My Pergola")

Wet Tables & Chairs

14 March 2011
Sender: Larvasa