Sunrise
We visited Happenheim today. It has a lot of medieval half-timber buildings.
A piece of a Roman road with medieval ballards
The library was open
Not Even!
Cat on a hot clay roof
A witch, also
Rathaus
The church from the castle
Side-view panorama of the church
Dusk
Bedtime
Gigi asked if I was ever going home. There was an interesting question after I woke up to text messages that my flight to Frankfurt was canceled and had been rescheduled to fly out of Edinburgh to Zürich on Sunday and the fly from Zürich to Frankfurt on Monday morning. The problem with that schedule was I was scheduled to fly from Frankfurt to the States on Monday morning, also.
The reason the flight was canceled was due to a strike by the German airline workers on Friday. Which was planned to create major disruptions for people traveling back home from Easter break. To make a long story short, my flight back to the States has been moved forward a week so I could stick with the new flight schedule if I had to, because flights and hotels were filling up and prices were going up on whatever was left by the minute. After a lot of searching, I got a better scheduled flight back to Frankfurt on Saturday.
Freyja will be happy to get another week of morning walks in.
John gave me a tour of the Verdant Works Museum, and gave me an excellent history of the jute milling industry that made Dundee a boom town in the 19th century. Visit the Verdant Works Museum website for the history of the rise and fall of jute milling in Dundee in the 19th and 20th centuries: https://www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/attraction/verdant-works/
Mostly women and children worked in the mills
Then we went up to the top of the Law, which gives people a 360 view of Dundee and the surrounding area below.
A little over a 180º view
Magpie at Law
The Discovery
Museum
The HMS Unicorn
Gray Heron trying to blend in
Dawn
Stretching wing at dawn
Sunrise
Synchronized seagull sleeping
Great architecture
This high school is as old as it looks.
The post office building
Museum
Grave yard bunny
Where North Sea oil rigs are decommissioned
European Starling
Starling and the Gull
Squirrel on Shey’s back fence
House Sparrow
Dunnock
Ruddy Turnstone
Eurpean Herring Gull
Gray Herron
Sunset
Dawn
Sunrise
A cute little spider paid me a visit this morning.
Eve anjoying attention this morning.
“Hey! Where dii my headrest go?”
Never get lost.
Steep streets around the church
Dawn
We drove to the Black Forest to day and went to the Treetop Walk, and the Open Ait Museum that is buildings from the 1700s with different periods from the 1700s onwards.
Tunnels over a kilometer in length along the way
Enrance and walk to the Treetop Walk.
I started my exercise tracker when we started walking up to the Treetop Walk
It snowed on us all the time we were at the site.
On to Gutach in the snow to see the Open Air Museum
Black Redstart on the roof of the museum ticket office, gift shop and restaurant.
Had to take a Black Forest Cake break while in the Black Forest
Sunset
Atlas
Squirrel Nutkin was jumping around in the trees on my morning walk
We went to Karlsruhe today, where Tristan and Craig had some business to take care of. It’s an hour and a half from Bruchmühlbach-Miesau, but we had a long roundabout way back after the police closed the AutoBahn.
This place is said to be a TikTok sensation for having Octopussy Gyros
Deutsche Postal delivery riders done delivering
Peacock flew into the elephant enclosure at the zoo
Eurasian Blackbird with an earthworm
Bridge over the River Rhine
I know my bike is in there somewhere
Sunset in Landstuhl
We rode the train to Freinsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, for another blooming spring festival. The people were cool, and I met an older woman who grew up in Freinsheim while walking through the apple orchards. She did not speak English, and although I made it clear, I don’t speak Germanl, but she bent my ear anyway. We communicated fairly well. She explained how the apple trees are blooming 40 days earlier than normal, which explained the cuttings from the pruned tree being in full bloom. The farmers pruned the budding trees, and the cuttings bloomed out of desperation. I also got her to explain how they irrigate the orchards and rows of freshly planted cabbage and lettuce she pointed out and identified as we walked by. When we caught up to Tristan, the woman had another captive ear who could converse much better than I could. She was really sweet to talk to us, an she seemed to need people to talk to.
Sinrise
One of Tristan’s neighbor’s gnome
Another neightor’s mushrooms
I saw more Great Tits on my morning walk before heading to Freinsheim.
“All aboard!” Only us usins were on the train that came from Homburg.
Just another rock in the wall!
Freisheim has an intact medieval wall.
White Stork
Then the festival went to the blooming birds.
Hallo Paparazzo, ich sehe dich!
Bloomin’ blooming cuttings
For those people who didn’t want to walk
Gray Heron
This Eurasian Kestrel was fanning its tail and fluttering its wings to tread air like a giant hummingbird. I’ve never seen a raptor tread air before today.
Eurasian Kestrel
Common Buzzard
Eurasion Magpie
Whatcha Carion, Crow?
Another Eurasion Kestrel
Lizard love on the tracks at golden hour
Atlas put himself behind bars. He was feeling like a kriminal Kitty.
Dawn
The Humanities Building last Thursday
What’s left of the Humanities Building this Thursday
A bridge to nowhere
Nightfall
Another cloudless dawn
The Duck Pond was renovated at UNM, and now there are no ducks, turtles, or fish.
Tearing down the old Humanities Building to build a new Humanities Building.
They de-paved A Parking lot to put an Art School on that spot.
My, that’s a big cracker you have there, Belafonte.
Food delivery robots
A place to read like royalty.
The hippo in the sky
Sunrise
I’ve been working on Tristan’s house preparing to put it on the market. I finished painting the living room today. I had my moments with the high ceiling.
Off Center & Not Even 