Walking through the foothills of the Alps in gorgeous weather. Lagging behind the rest. How else but leisurely to walk in these surroundings – particularly with an open beer bottle in hand.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Leisurely
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Tag: Germany
Gargoyle or lion?
from a fountain in the gardens of Schloss Stolzenfels
Monday Portrait
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Twelve birds a-singing
Did you spot all twelve? Ragtag Daily Prompt: Twelve
Make your own water tornado
One Word Sunday
21 special creatures
This is one of my favourite fountains. It’s the “Elwetritsche Brunnen” in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Palatinate. Elwetritsche are mythical creatures from our area, often said to be bird-like and a mixture of other animals or things. And there are always new ones hatching. … Continue reading 21 special creatures
Upper Rhine Plain
We live “right of the Rhine”, aka on the eastern side of the Rhine, at the place where the hills meet the plain. The plain stretches about 350km from northern Switzerland to about Frankfurt am Main. It’s about 50km wide. So when I look due west I can see several smaller towns, two cities (Mannheim and Ludwigshafen) until the hills of the Pfälzer Wald which border the plain on the western side.
Distance is relative
That’s our hometown, as seen from a relatively short distance, about 12 km to the north. We live not even 3km to the south church spire on the left but it is for the moment too far for us as a couple. Our car broke down on Saturday night and has been standing in front of a garage ever since. My sister collected us and brought us home. Where we are. I could go out on my bike (and I did go to the bakery which is open even though it is a public holiday) but my husband with his dud knee is homebound. He can manage a couple of kilometres probably more if he really needed to but would have to pay with pain in the days after. So he won’t. The centre of town is too distant for him without a vehicle.
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Marbach Stausee
Water reservoir Marbach The catchment area is the river Mümling and its tributaries in the middle of the Odenwald. It was created around 1980 as a protection against flooding. But in 1986 it started catching hikers, sunseekers, and bathers, too. This was on the tail-end … Continue reading Marbach Stausee
Rosette windows
from various churches. top left: from the chapel at Schloss Stolzenfels top right: from Wiesenbaden’s Oranier-Gedächtniskirchebottom left: from St Adolfus in Düsseldorfbottom right: from the Egyptian episkopalean Church in Heidelberg Monday Window
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