certainly looks cumbersome.


Having fun in a high ropes forest was not the most elegant endeavour ever undertaken by our family.
The Sea of Stones near Reichenbach in the Odenwald – according to legend the rocks were thrown by a giant from the opposite hill.
so the mushrooms are overdue.

I’ve been happy with our Indian summer on a personal level; naked arms and legs and no thick jackets yet. But I am also more than concerned about these temperatures in a wider context. For us in the temperate zones it means a change of the plants and animals that live here but it is manageable. For people living in hotter climes and close to water this moves more and more to life threatening conditions. Which in turn will impact us greatly.

That’s the war memorial in my home town. It was erected in 1936 and all the dead of world war I were registered. Except for four of them. It you look closely you see the four last ones on this list, not in alphabetical order and slightly different in colour. It’s because they were Jewish Germans who had fought and died alongside their Christian German comrades. During the Nazi era they were not acknowledged. Their names were added in 1946.

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