If you live in the middle of central Europe (sic) open spaces are not that easy to find. Unless you fiddle a bit with the perspective. Or you can pack your things and look for some really open horizons: The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Wide Open … Continue reading How Open Can You Go?
Let’s start with a bouquet of flowers in pleasing orange, yellow, and red. In autumn the warm colours of a vineyard is full of promise for the warm colours of next year’s wine. And talking about wine or Wein, this is the view of the old … Continue reading From Wholesome to Hurtful
FOWC with Fandango: Pollution
Rain moving over the Rhine Valley. Wet empty space around a cormorant as well as dry empty space around a two-seater airplane. Looking out from the Riedburg near Edenkoben into the clouds. The Carolingian church of the Lorsch Abbey, a UNESCO heritage site. I keep … Continue reading Empty But Not Meaningless
The Upper Rhine Valley stretches from Basel in Switzerland to above Frankfurt. It’s up to 40km wide. In Bingen the valley narrows and becomes a gorge. On both sides of the upper and middle Rhine is wine growing country.
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word – June 23
Around May there is kind of madness that descends on Germans. They go bananas over white asparagus. They eat it with meat, with ham, with pancakes, on its own, usually with a sauce hollandaise or a bechamel sauce. They even paint their houses with it. Proper fanatics.
BTW: The writing properly translated means: Without asparagus, life is unimportant.
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Weekend Sky
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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To the North is Frankfurt, to the East is the Odenwald, to the South is more of the Upper Rhine Valley towards Karlsruhe, and to the West is the Palatinate Forest.
Just stand in the middle and turn:
No go faster:
And even faster:
Dizzy yet?
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: North, South, East, West
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