Tag: forest
Paths Are Meant to Be Trodden
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Dirt Road or Dirt paths or Trails
It’s Just a Jump to the Left
for someone on foot but an obstacle to a car. After reading the prompt again and realising I only had the first four letters correct, I was bullheaded enough to leave the photo up. FOWC with Fandango: Obstinate
The Woods Next to My Home
In 1871 a baron decided that he wanted a forest full of unusual trees so he started to plant trees not native to the area in his backyard. He didn’t just plant one tree of every kind but in groups of hundreds. In ten years he planted (or rather had planted) more than 12,000 trees on the grounds behind his castle in Weinheim an der Bergstraße, 1460 of the trees were sequoias. In 1955 the family sold the area to the State of Baden-Württemberg and the care of the “Exotic Forest” fell to official foresters. Today it is open woodland like any other public forest in Germany. Over the years more and more species were introduced and now more than 130 non-native species can be found species, most of them thriving in large groups.
Although I am most attracted to the sequoias other species have their charm like this American tulip tree. Information boards are displayed next to the paths.
Animals are few and far between because of the many visitors but one can get lucky.
Sometimes it’s hard to cross the path because of the amount of traffic. Heedful snails look left and right before they cross.
Occasionally though, one can meet a more threatening member of the animal population. This one was aggressively lunging at me:
This Forest Is Unpredictable
I was really puzzled by this notice I came across in a piece of wood in the Palatium:
Careful! Wood!
These trees are actually woodland.
Enter at your own risk.
Branches might fall down and trees might fall over.
Please stay out on windy days.
Don’t stand underneath the trees and do not park there.
Town of Otterberg, Forestry Office Rhineland-Palatium
I’ve learned that forests are unpredictable. As are public notices in the Palatium.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Unpredictable
A Walk to an Unusual Sight
When we meet up with our group on Sundays, we follow a pre-laid trail. Once in a while we encounter a sign spelling SV. SV stands for “scenic view”. This normally signifies a look over a sweeping landscape. Occasionally it might also be an idyllic scene, a pond or a clearing or possibly a monument.
This Sunday it was neither sweeping nor idyllic, it was just odd.
There were wooden figures but embellished with odd toys and artificial flowers and strange artifacts. The wooden figures were stern and bleak, the additions however, were kind of menacing: a doll left in the weather looks scary after even a few days.
It was a really weird place.
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