There is always a reason to smile

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you just have to find it.

Well, I didn’t find it here. Took this photo to tell our son: Clean up or else! (last on the card on my phone)

But I did find the smile here when on a bicycle tour with my sister yesterday. It was, I must admit, before we found out that there would be another 10km to get home after having already ridden for 30km. For those who don’t know: the Odenwald is not flat, even on an e-bike you have to pedal hard occasionall). (last on the card on my camera).

For Brian’s Last on the Card in February

When the snow has gone …

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While the north and south of Germany were still in the grip of severe weather conditions including snow and wind and more snow, we in the southwest had already the first flowers of the year.

For Cee and Bren, of Flower of the Day and Floral Friday

How to protect them apple trees

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Imagine: It’s been spring for a while, quite balmy weather, and all of a sudden one night the temperature drops. You drive to the bakery, everything seems normal except that it is colder than the days before, and then you come across this:

This is an espalier fruit (apple trees) field. The plants, the blooms are covered in ice. On the ground lies frost. But it ends abruptly at the fence and the flowering bushes around are frost free.

Turns out this is an ingenious way to use irrigation. Ice, it turns out, protects the blooms and hence the possibility of them developing into fruit.

Ice covers the twigs, the blooms, the new leaves.

FOWC with Fandango: Irrigation

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