Monday Portrait
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
The Fear of Being Left behind on Moving Day
Stop and Take a Fellow Passenger Along
In rural areas, where public transport is not great, these ride-along benches are cropping up all over the place. You take a seat and you wait until somebody stops and gives you a ride. It’s the refinement of the hitchhiking of old. Funnily enough, it’s mostly elderly people who take advantage of the offer, the ones that use to stick out their thumbs 50 years ago. The return benches are near shopping areas, village centres. or serviced bus stops near by.
An Hour Later It Started Raining
Late autumn: the leaves are mostly gone, the climbers are still green (they will stay green for the rest of the year), the sky is a crisp blue and I’m looking up.
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Protective Frost
It hasn’t been cold enough yet this year so I had to go back about 18 month when the fruit trees had already started to flower and a cold snap was on the way. The way to protect the blooms is to put on the sprinklers and make the forming ice protect the leaves and shoots.
Here is a post from then with more photos: Ice, Ice, Baby
Breathless, yeah!
Weinheim, my home town, has given itself the monniker “The Two Castle Town”.
This is the Wachenburg, the younger one of the two, about 100 years old, built by student fraternities.
This is the Windeck, the older one, about 1000 years old, built to strengthen the influence of the abbey of Lorsch.
There are paths leading up to either, the choices are roads and paved paths as well as small, narrow footpaths through the woods. The latter are steeper but more fun to walk.
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IFO
Identified Flying Objects: Caution – Danger to Life! Flying golf balls. Private property, do not enter.
I can’t help but imagine little golf balls with wings whirring through the air shooting tiny but deadly missiles on trespassers.
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