The panoramic picture I use as my Substack post header, I took four years ago when we were in Antibes at the French Riviera. It was very early in the morning with the full moon setting in the west while the sun was about to rise in the east.
For me it symbolises the time that every musician experiences, when coming home from a gig really tired, yet not ready to go to sleep. So I usually look for bite to eat (fridge picnic) and then standing out on the deck, breathing the fresh morning air while thinking about the gig I just played. In the winter time it would be still dark, but in summer the topography of the mountains that surround Liechtenstein and the Rhine valley are starting to take shape, the first birds are already tweeting their first verse and so I say audibly hello to the new day and I tell myself also audibly the line from my song ‘Appreciate’: “Appreciate what you got, ‘cause most of us do not”!
After the church bells make sure that everybody in town knows, that it’s five o’clock in the morning, because apparently the wristwatch still isn’t invented yet, I call it a day or rather a night and I will not be back up until right around noon.