fun with photoshop

yesterday i pootled southward to inspect a venue

near Strathalbyn

for a South Australian stitch and dye retreat

to be held early in September

it will be the first 5 day workshop i've held in my

[for now] home state

since 2005

quite a while

and then i pottered about the village for a bit

and in an antique shop i found an old printing plate

in German

which needed to come and live on my shelf

i could decipher the biggest word

'superstition'

and something about bells and ravens and trees and time

but the rest was trickier until

i took a happy snap

flipped it vertically to reverse the text

enhanced it in photoshop

ABERGLAUBE

Von Oddo Weichardt

Allerseelen ist’s, vom Tal her klingen Glocken

Ein regen schauer ueber graeber geht

Im alten Baum zwei Raben hocken

Nachdenklich ich zu diesen Zweien seh

Wenn Raben kraechzen gibt’s einen Toten

ImVolksmund es im allgemeinem heisst

Ich horch – sie schreien nicht

Ganz still sitzen sie da oben

Ich laechle – also nicht

Ich hab noch Zeit

and here's my [not exactly brilliant] translation

Superstition

All Souls Eve, bells sound from the valley

Rain scatters over the graves

Two ravens roosting in the ancient tree

I ponder them

When ravens croak there’ll be a death

So goes the saying

I listen, they are quiet

They sit in silence

I smile – so not today

I still have time