The weather had looked kind of miserable but by driving to higher ground we broke through the clouds and were in unfiltered sunshine. The colour of the trees are just magical against the blue sky.
Which is not all that surprising considering that the two colours are almost directly opposite on the colour wheel:
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was an essay by John Erskine, written about a hundred years ago. However, although intelligence is a given within certain margins, education is not. There is a moral obligation to educate children to the best of our possibilities and within the margins fo their possibilities.
Johann Pestalozzi lived and worked another 100 to 150 years earlier. He worked tirelessly to educate youngsters and became one of the greatest school and social reformers of all times. He believed that men could only be bettered if they were loved.
In his native Switzerland as well as in Germany many schools are named after him, like this Pestalozzischule where I spend my first four years in the school system.
FOWC with Fandango: Obligation
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Well, he is fat, he is green, and he lives in a swamp. How much more ogreish can you get?
When we meet up with our group on Sundays, we follow a pre-laid trail. Once in a while we encounter a sign spelling SV. SV stands for “scenic view”. This normally signifies a look over a sweeping landscape. Occasionally it might also be an idyllic scene, a pond or a clearing or possibly a monument.
This Sunday it was neither sweeping nor idyllic, it was just odd.
There were wooden figures but embellished with odd toys and artificial flowers and strange artifacts. The wooden figures were stern and bleak, the additions however, were kind of menacing: a doll left in the weather looks scary after even a few days.
It was a really weird place.
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We came upon a clearing in the forest yesterday. It was littered with strange creatures.
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The manor house in the Hermannshof in Weinheim was built in classicist style in 1820. The garden was, of course, a private garden. Later it became the property of the Freudenberg family. The company founded by Carl Freudenberg in the mid 19th century is today still family owned. The house and garden was still private when I was a little girl and walked past it every day on my way to school. I used to wonder then what was behind the dense hedges.
The garden was changed to a park open to the public, now called “Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof” in 1988 and has become a tourist magnet. The manor house is used by the company as a conference centre and is still closed to the public.
The windows show off the classicist style of the manor house. The representative front overlooks the park and with the beautiful magnolia looks impressive at any time of year. But the back and side views are beautiful as well.
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I never realised that the salvias, which I used to grow in my garden, were related to the herb sage, which I use in my cooking. And I certainly never realised the colour range they come in.
