In South Africa there a certain kind of tree, the vachellia xanthophloea (xanthophloea refers to the yellow bark). Now I know that the common name, fever tree, stems from the fact that they were first found in malaria infected areas but you can always see a fever tree from afar – the bark stands out and the stem and the branches look as if they were glowing from the inside.
I’ve never seen a specimen in Germany but in the right light a poplar can look luminous, too.
This is last weekend’s sky. It’s actually raining today and I haven’t had my camera out yet. So this is reminiscing.
Weekend Sky
I’m not quite sure whether these ventilation hoses have been installed due to COVID air conditioning improvements. In any case, they look funny.
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A small puddle in the right place. In this case, in Mannheim in front of the water tower in the city centre.
Last on the SD card in the camera: A fountain in the city of Mannheim.
Last on the SD card in the phone. – I was taking photos of old pictures in photo albums. I did crop this because I sent it to my son whom I wanted to tease and only kept the cropped version.
For Bushboy’s Last on the Card in August
This statue of an apple picker stands in front of the old town hall of Trebur, a town near the River Rhine in Hesse.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Fruit
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It used to be a private mansion. The building and the surrounding garden still belongs to the family company but nowadays the garden is open to the public on most days and a botanical garden of some renown. Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof in Weinheim.
The last few weeks (months?) the sky has been relentlessly blue. So we went for a walk in the Exotenwald in Weinheim rather than in the open where there is little protection of sun. Whenever we looked up – the sky was blue. Here we are looking up at one of the 60m tall sequoias which are about 150 years old.
Weekend Sky
While this gull is flying into the infinite distance
the Vedra is making shoreward, towards Roker Beach.
Thirty years earlier we were on the opposite side of the world, at the lagoon of Nature’s Valley near Plettenberg Baai in South Africa.
I wear my hair short and I can style it without much fuss. But folk with proper manes might rely on the help of others to look their best.
I also don’t care for cigarettes or pipes but the Odenwälder Hannes is smoking day in, day out.
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in August
