I went exploring yesterday in a new area which was dismal. Still brown and grey and no colours anway. But the overgrown path looked as if it wanted to suck me into a tunnel.
The only thing that hinted at the end of winter were the little white blooms on the blackthorns, the earliest bloomers in the woods.
Yet there was something in the air that promised more colours to come (see the hint of blue in the sky?).
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Out in Nature
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I showed the institutional care building which is being partly demolished last week. This week there is a glimpse of the administration building which will be kept. I particularly like the five narrow windows with the sandstone frames.
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I discovered a small nature reserve near the next town, idyllically wedged between an autobahn intersection and a recycling yard. Only declared as a nature reserve in 1980 it was orginally a lake excavated for gravel. Apparently, it’s a sanctuary for a variety of local birds, even a few not so common ones.
I say apparently because I couldn’t judge for by myself. There is one place from which it can be glimpsed, through an overgrown fence. The local allotments, fenced and only accessible for plot holders, offer an unobstructed view – or so the town’s PR site tells me. Hrmphf.
This sculpture has been erected in honour of Karin I, the Fountain Queen of 1981, in Oberursel (and don’t ask me anything else about the privileges and duties of a fountain queen). It is called the Wäschfraa-Brunnen or washerwoman fountain.
The square is called “An der Bleiche” and there are many squares and streets named in the area or even in Germany with this or a similar name. It translates as bleach and it was the place where clothes could be dried and bleached in the sun. It was located near running water where the women did their washing.
During summer every village has it’s festival in our area. The bunting is traditional.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Festooned
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Museum
It’s a typical clapboard house as can be found in certain parts of the Odenwald.
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The rooms of the keep of the Starkenburg above Heppenheim have the best view in the youth hostel (the castle is used by the Deutsche Jugendherbergswerk). It’s not the original keep, though.
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