Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tablecloth
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tablecloth
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

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.
I took the pictures despite the turbid water not hoping for much. Two clicks in photoscape and I could identify that the fish were perch. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Turbid
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