Back after 50 years to Garmisch Germany

(L. to R. my sister Alex, the boys sister, me, the two boys and the rest their cousins.)

We went next door, to the clothing store, now featuring Tommy Hilfiger...as I walked in with a copy of a 51 year old photograph of me and our neighbor boys from the building...a young man approached me and asked if he could help us, I told him in my broken German the situation and showed him the photocopy of the boys I was looking for...he said, "that's my father and uncle!" I about fell down, I was so excited...within minutes I was reunited with the boys, who now where grown men my age. One of them owned the clothing shop and the other was the city architect. They both remembered me and my sister, even our nicknames, ironically they had just recently talked about us, wondering what ever happened to us.

My mother would take the same type of photos in Garmisch every year, I have some from the States as well...I thought they where cute

The house we lived in, and other places around Garmisch, including our first day in school with our candy funnels.

Few of the memories that I still have during my time living in Garmisch, (and that comes back like a flashback.) are the feelings and sound of the snow beneath my feet crunching, the fresh air that is so hard to breath in, the sound of the little sleigh that I'm pulling and hearing the scraping that is caused from the small pieces of coal that they spread for traction. I also loved hearing the bells on the horses pulling a sleigh, the rhythm of the beat of their hoofs pounding, breathing heavily, all this in unison...and the added beauty of it all.
It's amazing that these little memories have always had an impact staying in my memory bank, maybe this is why I paint winter sleigh scenes (like the one above).

At Lake Riessersee they performed Olympic speed skating events and ice hockey matches. That year also was the Combined Alpine Event when it first became part of the Winter Olympics. Slalom races were held on Gudiberg Mountain and the downhill races on Kreuzeck Mountain.

Can you imagine again someone contacted me that came to this lens. One gentleman lived in Garmisch and has kindly supplied me with photos...Thank You Siegfried! The in 2011 I was contacted by a lady who owned one of Oskar Schultz pastel paintings, I told Siegfried about it, making him intrigued and happy.

On my Life Story in a suitcase lens I was contacted and discovered by a second cousin, we were related through my mom. ( I didn't even know this side existed.)

I am very excited to have been contacted...it shows how small this world is with the internet and Squidoo.

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************ Thank You for the Purple Star! ************

My very first try at a landscape painting of the Alps in Garmisch. I'm preparing for Plein Air painting, so decided to do a QUICK painting done in an acrylic wash 5" x 5"