This is a typical free-standing house in the Hessian part of the Odenwald. The ground floor on the outside is a plainly painted. The walls of the first floor and up are covered with wooden shingles, sometimes in natural brown wood colour, but often painted in pastel colours. In the middle of the roof is a large gable, decorated with wooden cut outs. The windows have a contrasting border.
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In summer it is a bit more difficult see the castle ruin Windeck because there are trees in the way. So I took advantage of the unimpeded view.
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The German word for acquittal has an S in the middle which looked good enough for this pub, close to the local court, to write as a paragraph sign..
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I teach from Monday to Thursday, so Friday is my day for running errants. I had to go to town and combined my trip with a visit to the local botanical garden. The weather has turned, it’s become greyer and colder. It’s still too warm for November but it looks suitably autumnal at least.
The seats are still out but they are more decorative than utilitarian at this point.
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There is this small vinyard, eight rows in all, wedged between a barn and a residential area, barely 200m from our house. Each row of vine is of a different grape, and at the end of each row a different rose tree is planted. Some of them still carry blooms this late in the year.
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The German Wine Queen represents the German wine industry for a year. The different wine growing areas have princesses who represent their territories. Thanks to COVID Franziska Etsch’s reign for the Badische Bergstraße has been a few years more than she expected. Her poster is still up and looking over the local vinyards although I believe her crown has now been passed to a new dignitary.
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I’m so happy to see that Becky’s squares are back. More importantly: that Becky is back. And she brought squares.
She is asking for photos of walks – walking squares. I’m so happy to join in but … yes, there is a but: I don’t like walking so much these days, I’d rather ride my bike. So I will offer squares from daily bike rides.
My first squares from this afternoon show the radius of my riding activities. Standing on the slopes of the mountain range of the Odenwald in my back I look towards the west over the fields, the industrial and residential areas of the Rhine valley with the mountains of the Palatium in the distance. There are houses interspersed with vinyards to ride through, alotments and gardens.
And these are the woods in my back which I will visit in the days ahead for sure. And there is the village to cross before I get there, hence the street lamp.
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Last on the SD card in my camera: From an outing with our grandson the day before yesterday, it’s the tv tower in Mannheim.
Last on the SD card in my cell phone: A new lodger in our garage, a nosferatu spider. The species name is actually Zoropsis spinimana, the common name is derived from the marking on its back. It is new to Germany, having moved from warmer areas (due to climate change, no doubt). So for the first time there is a spider in Germany that can actually hurt human beings – they will bite if they are threatened. The bite is comparable to a mosquito bite or small bee sting (yes, Australians may laugh at this point). This particular one is a female, as my more knowledgeable friends tell me, and its body is just under 2 cm long.
For Bushboy’s Last on the Card in October.
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