Sharon Frey

G+ waif, savourer of music, die Siedler von Catan, magnets, cello, billiards, latent pianist, UW, adoption Kinkaid, jackie-of-all-trades, DE + CA.

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

Fill your TL with affirmation, encouragement, humour, empathy, architecture, love, passion, photography, appreciation, survival stories, fine art, cuteness, local produce, congratulations, surprise, wisdom from those who are decades older than you, + great music. Let the rest go.

[National Gallery @NationalGallery]

Can too much purple play with your mind? 👀

In the latest episode of our podcast, Stories in Colour, cultural historian Kassia St Clair joins Beks to uncover the story of mauveine – the world’s first synthetic aniline dye that reshaped Victorian fashion.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/ypmnJrnoHF

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

The best part about going to the Thermalbad is the deep relaxing nap afterwards.

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

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[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

On sweltering days like this, I miss a good Canadian Chapman's Tiger Tail ice cream. https://t.co/n1b9ufrsWW

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

@poshdirt Es tut mir Leid das zu hören. Schicke dir Kraft für die kommenden Tage. Krankenhaus Essen lädt auch nicht zum schnellen Genesung. Hoffentlich has du etwas leckeres und nahrhaftes in deine Tasche hineingeschmuggelt.

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

Busy yesterday in the forest for a couple of hours building a family-sized nest with kids and parents. Most were interested in taking selfies. Once everyone was gone and the props packed away in the car, only the hay and branches (+ mosquitoes +spiders) remained in the clearing.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

The Ziegeleimuseum has cool activities for kids: making roof tiles. Take the rail trolley to the clay pit, dig it out, shape and fire.

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

@wrathofgnon Great tip! About three hours south from where I am. Love the hands-on playful learning.

[Ketogenic European @Ketogenic_EU]

In Western Germany there's this weird tradition that young men harvest and decorate trees tonight to put them in front of the entrance of the girl/woman they like.
10m high, carried by hand with buddies and also cut down without power tools

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

Heute war es bei der Arbeit laut / Today it was loud at work

[Von Sinnen @poshdirt]

#words #bildung #education

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

Chiming chapel bells and birdsong, the perfect 8 p.m. closure of a week of wonderful brisk mornings and sunny warm afternoons - how I love living in southern Germany's spring!

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

'Construction, straight, stretch' pronounced as "conshtruction, shtraight, shtretch". What's up with the mush-mouth elocution, CBC National News? And since when is the word 'request' been snubbed and substituted by 'a big ask'.

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

@lipsandskin Zu wenig Speck 😉

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

How delightful and quiet the skies are, filled with birdsong and voices, instead of the distant echo of airplane engines on descent into Zurich. Lufthansa is on strike.

[Jake (the 80s & 90s never ended in my world) Rudh @JakeRudh]

On this day in 1989, The Cure released "Lullaby" - the lead single from their eighth studio album “Disintegration”

“On candy stripe legs the spiderman comes”

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🚨 A teen just created a filtration system that removes over 95% of microplastics from drinking water.

Mia Heller, an 18-year-old student at Kettle Run High School, took matters into her own hands after realizing that government agencies were not prioritizing filtration programs for plastic-contaminated water.

Frustrated by the maintenance-heavy and expensive membrane filters her parents used at home, Heller spent months in her garage designing a more efficient alternative. Her prototype, which is roughly the size of a standard home appliance, successfully eliminates 95.5% of microplastics—a performance level that rivals existing high-end commercial technologies but with significantly less waste.

The system utilizes a specialized magnetic liquid called ferrofluid that attaches to microscopic plastic particles ranging from one nanometer to five millimeters in size. As water flows through the device, a magnet pulls the ferrofluid-bound contaminants out, leaving behind clean drinking water while allowing the magnetic liquid to be recycled for future use. A finalist in the 2025 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, Heller envisions her low-cost, under-sink system hitting the consumer market to empower individual households against the rising health concerns linked to microplastic consumption.

source: Sheffield, T. (2026). High School Student, 18, Invents Water Filter That Eliminate 95.5% of Microplastics. PEOPLE.

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

Rinderhackbällchen in Avocado saure Sahne Soße, und Essiggurken dazu. Ich bin satt. #Keto

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

New word from the mind of a 4 year old today - "Flatterling"
Instead of the German word for butterfly - Schmetterling, she called it a Flatterling.
I guess the English childish equivalent for "Flutterby" 🦋

[Sharon Frey @LilaViolet]

There's this style of stile, too

[Hamilton 🇺🇸 @Watchman_motto]

Love these ladders in a fence row. Don’t know if there’s a term for it? But a really clever way to make a path through without the need for a gate.