There were nine trees dancing in the wind.
For Jude’s Twelve Days of Christmas
Fun and Games and a Strange Looking Bird
The last on the mobile phone SD card: the marble run (a Christmas present for our grandson).
The last on the camera’s SD-card: We went to a bird zoo on the last day of the year.
The Last on the Card in December
The Sun Setting Slowly on 2022
Actually, it was last Tuesday. But close enough, I suppose.
Weekend Sky
Walking up the Lothar Pfad
The worst winter storm in recorded European history was Cyclone Lothar in 1999. In the Black Forest there is a strip of land which was left to heal itself. It’s possible to walk through the area and see what happens if nature is left to do its own thing. In order not to disturb this process visitors are not allowed to walk on the ground but on the raised planks leading through the emerging forest.
My husband’s first name is Lothar so he has a special connection to the area.
On the Eighth Day of Hogswatch
There were eight milking maids a-watching out of eight dormer windows.
For Jude’s Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas Star
Pointsettias usually flower at around Christmas time hence their German name: Weihnachtsstern, or Christmas Star.
Floral Friday and FOTD
for Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday
They Are just Justs
The international running group of which I am part is known for its – let’s call it: creative – nicknames. A nickname has to be earned – you come to a few runs, you do something gloriously stupid, you are named. So when you first come to runs you are referred to as a “just”. Just + first name. Hence, these two would have been known as Just Johann and Just Friedrich if they had joined the HHH.
On the Sixth Day of Hogswatch
There were six cows approaching. They were not a-laying -lying in the meadow.
For Jude’s Twelve Days of Christmas
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