Yesterday’s autumn picture were all of beeches. The forests around here are mixed forests but beeches are dominant. Many villages have “beech” (Buche) in their names: Seidenbuch, Buchklingen, Buchen, Reichenbuch, and others. They are a delight all year round, from spring to winter.
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Many dairy farms decorate their entrance with a plastic, life-size cow. I have even seen cows painted as strawberries, colourful and psychedelic cows.
They are pretty life-like, particularly the veins show around the udder.
Whoever painted these two specimen has gone a little overboard painting the veins in blue, black and dark russet. It bothers me everytime I pass by.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Venation
PS: While checking whether I had the right word for the blood vessels in and around the udder, I came across the startling information that there are beauty pageants for cows. There actually are cow beauty queens called Miss Zürich, for example. Now that’s a piece of trivia I will not forget in a hurry!
Not quite what I had planned but Henry insisted to take up Septimus’ challenge.
And incidentally, a bonus SixWordSaturday.
On a visit to the town of Schwetzingen near Heidelberg I looked up and saw this knight gracing a chimney on a roof. Without my camera’s zoom I wouldn’t have seen the details.
These stone sculptures were in the garden of a restaurant.
And this little fellow stands in a public square, watching asparagus being sold.
