Our Life-Long Desire, Collecting Art After a visit to the Behm Gallery in Bellevue, we decided to take our vacation in San Francisco this spring. We remembered an Art Gallery near the Ghirardelli Square with a very nice sales lady we shall visit, after we stopped at the Café right by the end station of …
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Ilona Cole, Story 126
A Bouquet of Flowers This has been a month filled with beautiful tulips which are my favorite flowers to bring into my home. Though I had never seen them put up like this before. I received them in big glass, cylinder vessels without any soil, just the bulbs in water. The first ones my dearest …
Ilona Cole, Story 125
Gathering Blueberries in West Seattle It was summer of 1963, a beautiful day and my dearest sister Friedl was visiting us here in the USA for three months from Germany. Hal and I had split our vacations to do some fun things with Friedl because for this length of time my sister would be alone …
Ilona Cole, Story 124
Huckleberry Hunt in the Odenwald (Ode to the Forest) It was a beautiful sunny day. The year was 1953 and I had met a very sweet and special American soldier at Headquarters of the US armed forces, General Eisenhower’s Command in Frankfurt/Germany where I worked as secretary to the communication officer since 1948. Being such …
Ilona Cole, Story 123
A Beautiful Ski Resort in the Alpine Mountains “Garmish Partenkirchen” It was to be a cold winter this year and my Hal and I had made plans to be in Germany at the same time as our good friends who went on skiing trips almost every winter to Germany, Switzerland or Austria. We made plans …
Ilona Cole, Short Story 122
It was Close to the “Holidays” The city of Frankfurt/ Germany is divided into areas or districts. The story comes from an evening close to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at the “Alte Roemer” the old Roman district. Frankfurt’s tourist attraction from Roman times with the most striking cathedral, the Paulus Cathedral, art shops with …
Ilona Cole, Story 121
Sans Souci Palace in Potsdam It was the pleasure palace of Kaiser “Emperor” Frederick the Great and it featured beautiful Rococo style architecture and a magnificent Palace Garden and vineyard that Frederick the Great had planted, terraced by the stairs. On April 14th, 1745, the foundation stone was laid for today’s world-famous Sans souci Palace. …
Ilona Cole, Story 120
Sightseeing and Shopping at the “Alte Roemer” –Old Roman Sector in Frankfurt My husband, Hal and I, Ilona had planned another visit to my sister Friedl and her husband Georg, who lived in Darmstadt/Germany south of Frankfurt. Since my Hal was reluctant to park his new car in the “long term” parking lot, Doug Hal’s …
Ilona Cole, Story 119
Next dramatic chapter in life Next dramatic chapter in life…Getting glasses It was the summer of 1980 and I– Ilona –was 53 years old. Going to and from Vancouver where we lived to Longview where I worked, I had noticed the strain on my eyes trying to read the signs on the streets, the Interstate …
Ilona Cole, Story 118(1/2)– A Special Valentine’s Day Bonus Story From Ilona
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