I know these raised hides are built by, meant for, and maintained by hunters but I wonder – how often do they just sit up there and enjoy their surroundings? Or shoot with a camera?
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Tag: #walkingsquares
A Walk to an Unusual Sight
When we meet up with our group on Sundays, we follow a pre-laid trail. Once in a while we encounter a sign spelling SV. SV stands for “scenic view”. This normally signifies a look over a sweeping landscape. Occasionally it might also be an idyllic scene, a pond or a clearing or possibly a monument.
This Sunday it was neither sweeping nor idyllic, it was just odd.
There were wooden figures but embellished with odd toys and artificial flowers and strange artifacts. The wooden figures were stern and bleak, the additions however, were kind of menacing: a doll left in the weather looks scary after even a few days.
It was a really weird place.
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Fog Fishing
Another photo of a ride around the small, local lake. Decide for yourself what you prefer: the monochrome original. I could barely make out what I was seeing or the enhanced image below.
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Left-over Skeletons
Since the weather has changed it’s more fun to go to the fields in the plain again. The sun is out but temperatures have dropped and the wind on the bike is really nippy.
These are not left-over from Halloween but from the fruit growing season. The plastic covers have already been rolled up and will be stored for next year, the tubing will be dissassembled soon and also put in a barn.
Walking Square #12
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Good Weather, Bad Photos
We do have quite a few grey herons living in the area and a lots more storks (now all gone for the winter). And for a few days in autumn there are a few great egrets stopping over on their migratory route. And I spotted one yesterday! Both those birds didn’t let me get close and I just managed to get a blurred photo of the grey taking off. I am always in awe about their wingspan, so I am including this last shot as well.
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Remembering for the Future
A little park, close to the botanical garden, has tennis courts in the middle and a memorial at the entrance. The memorial is for the victims of violence, war and persecution.
On 15 October 1940 the live-in patients of the local special care nursing home for people with physical or mental handicaps were moved to Grafeneck, an extermination facility. They were killed there.
On 22 October 1940 the Jewish people living in Weinheim were transported to the Camp de Gurs from where they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Where they were killed.
The synagogue used to be near the memorial. It had been destroyed almost two years earlier on 10 November 1938 during the November pogroms.
Every year from mid-October onwards a few random suitcases are placed in the middle of the star of David which is embedded in the ground of the memorial. People had but a couple of hours to pack their belongings in a suitcase, one suitcase per person, before being taken from their homes.
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Looking up while Walking
In summer it is a bit more difficult see the castle ruin Windeck because there are trees in the way. So I took advantage of the unimpeded view.
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Hopefully not Sour Grapes
I was back walking past the little vinyard. Harvest has been a while ago but some grapes were overlooked.
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Finds on a Sunday Walk
The amazing thing of the Hermannshof, the botanical garden, where I take occasional walks, is that there are always flowers, any time of the year, any season.
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The Vine and the Rose
There is this small vinyard, eight rows in all, wedged between a barn and a residential area, barely 200m from our house. Each row of vine is of a different grape, and at the end of each row a different rose tree is planted. Some of them still carry blooms this late in the year.
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