I teach from Monday to Thursday, so Friday is my day for running errants. I had to go to town and combined my trip with a visit to the local botanical garden. The weather has turned, it’s become greyer and colder. It’s still too warm for November but it looks suitably autumnal at least.
The seats are still out but they are more decorative than utilitarian at this point.
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For many years the town of Weinheim was very proud of the cedar in the castle parks. It was known to be the oldest Lebanon Cedar in Germany.
And then its 300th birthday approached. And somebody checked the records. And now we all know that the massive tree was not planted in 1720 but around 1835 – more than 100 years later. And the sign was removed:
We still love the cedar.
It might have been for Frodo or Bilbo but it wasn’t for me when I stepped out this afternoon.
That’s the furthest I can see without going further than 50 steps from our front door. In the distance in the West is the Palatium mountain range, in between are the cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen and the breadth of the Upper Rhine Valley, around 40km at this point.
A look to left, and a look to the right. The area used to be a mixture of residential buildings and farmsteads but today only a couple of farmers are left around us.
And finally I managed an inadvertent selfie (I’m the small orange blob in the mirror). The old wall belongs to our next door neighbour, the sandstone blocks are encircling our front yard.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 50 Steps or Less
It used to be a private mansion. The building and the surrounding garden still belongs to the family company but nowadays the garden is open to the public on most days and a botanical garden of some renown. Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof in Weinheim.
The last few weeks (months?) the sky has been relentlessly blue. So we went for a walk in the Exotenwald in Weinheim rather than in the open where there is little protection of sun. Whenever we looked up – the sky was blue. Here we are looking up at one of the 60m tall sequoias which are about 150 years old.
Weekend Sky
Last week our town had it’s annual festival. The town colours are white and blue and hence the bunting is white and blue. It makes for a very festive atmosphere, I’m a Fan of … #170
Germans love to organise themselves in clubs, called “Verein”. This particular one is dedicated to uphold the traditions of Weinheim. The somewhat long and cumbersome name stems from the fact that it is an amalgamation of two clubs, none of which wanted to give up their traditional name.
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