

When I first started living near Darmstadt in 2005 the area southwest of the main station was brush. They started building sometime around 2010. These photos are from 2022. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Professional Offices
Nice church the St Peter and Paul Church in Hochheim it is, though. Apparently, she came for the wine. And it’s not as bad as the story suggests – the English word “hock” for a cheap white wine apparently stems from that visit. Cee’s Fun … Continue reading Queen Victoria didn’t come for the church
With spring the plastic foils come out to protect the strawberies – from cold, rain, and even birds. Even the cherrytrees are covered once they start bearing fruit mainly because of the starlings. The good thing is that after the harvest the tarps are rolled … Continue reading Agriculture and Plastic
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Trains and Trolleys
Traditional signposts in the woods around here. Sometimes so traditional (aka: old) that they are overgrown and cannot fulfill their proper function. But if you look for them they will send you on the right way. Less traditional, the sign post at a the tennis … Continue reading Find Your Way
I counted very carefully, not all birds are easy to spot. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Embrace the Numbers
Both are examples of Aachen, the city where Charlemagne is buried and where for about half a millenia the German kings where crowned. It took me ages that Aachen is the city meant when the French talk of “Aix-la-Chapelle”. The narrow buildings are near the … Continue reading The Wide and the Narrow in Aachen
The above is a David Hockney quote. Two buildings from Darmstadt. Two houses from the Black Forest. Two little huts from the Odenwald. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colourful Buildings