Get out your thermal underwear, your sweater, you hoods.
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Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Good Weather, Bad Photos
We do have quite a few grey herons living in the area and a lots more storks (now all gone for the winter). And for a few days in autumn there are a few great egrets stopping over on their migratory route. And I spotted one yesterday! Both those birds didn’t let me get close and I just managed to get a blurred photo of the grey taking off. I am always in awe about their wingspan, so I am including this last shot as well.
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Hoverfly
It looks like a dangerous insect. Yet, the black and yellow stripes are only a disguise. But the really typical feature of this syrphus fly (that the American name) is it’s capability to hover in the air, hence the British name.
But although they are quite common and although they look like they are still in the air – I haven’t photographed one hovering yet.
That’s the Style
This is a typical free-standing house in the Hessian part of the Odenwald. The ground floor on the outside is a plainly painted. The walls of the first floor and up are covered with wooden shingles, sometimes in natural brown wood colour, but often painted in pastel colours. In the middle of the roof is a large gable, decorated with wooden cut outs. The windows have a contrasting border.
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Remembering for the Future
A little park, close to the botanical garden, has tennis courts in the middle and a memorial at the entrance. The memorial is for the victims of violence, war and persecution.
On 15 October 1940 the live-in patients of the local special care nursing home for people with physical or mental handicaps were moved to Grafeneck, an extermination facility. They were killed there.
On 22 October 1940 the Jewish people living in Weinheim were transported to the Camp de Gurs from where they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Where they were killed.
The synagogue used to be near the memorial. It had been destroyed almost two years earlier on 10 November 1938 during the November pogroms.
Every year from mid-October onwards a few random suitcases are placed in the middle of the star of David which is embedded in the ground of the memorial. People had but a couple of hours to pack their belongings in a suitcase, one suitcase per person, before being taken from their homes.
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