We spent last Saturday in Mußbach, a part of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Yes, we were there to sample the new wine at “the world’s longest-lasting wine festival” (i.e. it lasts from mid-August to mid-October) but our walk through the vineyards also brought us past some houses. With Windows.
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When we see the clouds rolling in,
when we see the rain coming near,
then we get ready for the big downpour:
We went to a winefest on Saturday, the first in two years! It was a longish wait to get in (only 500 people were allowed in the courtyard of the winery including those who only came to pick up their 2 or 3 or 5 litre canisters of new wine, so we had to wait until other people left, had to show our vaccination certificate and log in with the tracing app) but it was worth it. We drank new wine which is called “Federweiße” – a milky liquid with fermentation not yet completed. The traditional glass used at any wine festival in the Pfalz is the “Dubbeglas“.
It has round grooves – which helps your grip if your fingers are greasy from holding a sausage roll or a roll with “Saumagen” or other local delicacies.
Here is proof that we went to a winefest in 2021; the glasses are usually decorated with a new picture every year. If you are wondering about the colour of the wine it’s a red spritzer (“Schorle“) – we changed to mature wine because too much “Federweiße” can … well it can give you the runs before it makes you drunk. But the glasses hold half a litre and we are not hard-core enough to drink half a litre of wine at a time and live to tell the tale.
These are the baby versions (250ml) which are a concession for tourists and are not really taken seriously.
Mispel in German, and mespilus germanica in Latin. And I won’t tell you the nicknames this underrated fruit has collected over the years.
Macro Monday
The Americans call him a German shepherd dog, the British call him an Alsatian. He is a European breed, partly at least.
Monday Portrait
This month’s colour for Jude’s Life in Colour challenge is orange.
At the weekend we met with a running group which has chosen orange and black as their group colours. They sport shoes, socks, t-shirts, shawls and gloves in orange and black. So I thought, I start with orange clothes.
For some others, orange is their working colour.
Orange clothes for Life in Colour in October.
I just had to feature my batty ear studs (which I will wear again this October).
Run-up to Halloween. Third day of October. Bats.
Two kinds of flying. One is a method from the present, one a method from the past. I wonder what the future holds?
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And I stay at home as well. This is what I see when I look out of the window.
It hasn’t been raining for the last few days (although it looks like it could start any moment now) and I realised I have hardly rainy pictures on my files. This is one of the few rainy shots I found.
In Munich, the intrepid surfers had a different idea. They surf on a permanently standing wave in the Eisbach, a part of the river Isar, in the middle of town:
