This morning, February 20, our beloved cousin Berthold passed away peacefully at home in Germany, after a year-long battle with cancer, just ten days short of his 51st birthday. He will be sadly missed, but fondly remembered for the joyous time we spent together.
During the last night of his visit at our place in 2002, we had the most awesome Northern Lights show one can imagine, and when he left us this morning for a better place, the sky above us lit up again in all its grandeur, which had not happened for a long time.
And I received word, that on the day he passed, there was such a magnificently strong rainbow stretched for a while between the two towns where he lived and worked, with one end terminating in the window of his workplace [from the eyewitness' perspective], that almost everybody came out of their buildings and watched it in awe.
What remarkable, consolatory incidents for those left behind.
The Lord willing, we shall meet again some day.
Scanned from Kodak EB-2 slide on Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650 scanner.
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Miner's Range in the Distance.
Note: If you have never done so, please read my updated profile on my thoughts about the equipment I'm using and infrared photography in general. I had the description right here, but it got too long now.
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From the Archive.
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