Sounion

April 5, 2026 Timothy Price26 Comments

Flowers on Easter morning

Meow Meow meowed at the door last night. I let him in, and he was wet from the rain. He stayed around for a while comforting me. Then when he was dry, he asked to go back outside.

Sad Day

April 4, 2026 Timothy Price44 Comments

Sunrise

Laurie called me early this morning because Marble Kitty was having problems breathing. She took her to an emergency vet, and Marble had fluid pressing on her lungs. The vet removed the fluid and Marble had a collpsed lung with a mass in it. A long story short, she didn’t make it. Sadly we lost one of the sweetest kitties.

Between back and forth with Laurie on Marble’s condition, Marina, Socrotis and I went out to buy bread, and then in the afternoon we went to dinner in a restaurant by the sea.

It’s been raining on and off all day, and the area has received “buckets of rain” over the past few months, so the vegetation is green and wildflowers are blooming everywhere.

Dinner

View from the table

Local black cat

Long Legged Buzzard

Assissin Bug

Local frogs

We heard a chirping sound that sounded like a bird, but it was coming from under a concrete slab, and Merlin Bird ID could not identify what it was. Marina looked under the concrete but could see anything. I took photos under the concrete, and after I processed the photo, I found the frog on the right-hand photo with its head sticking up out of the water.

Houses with a great view

Handicap access to the water

This sweet dog came out to greet us

Sunset to the east

Cool lights over the dining room table in the Airbnb I’m staying in down the road from Marina and Socrotis.

Black Forest In White

March 28, 2026 Timothy Price42 Comments

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

Autokauf

March 27, 2026 Timothy Price43 Comments

Beware of Dog!

We drove to Wiesbaden this morning to shop for cars. Jessica needs a reliable car to run around to the different places where she does massage therapy.

We got a bit wired before venturing onto the used car lot.

Der Hund!

The cars in the running were this sporty Toyota…

A Maserati…

A classic BMW…

And a smiley VW Golf.

Any guesses as to which one Jessica bought?

Bridges over the Rhine

Alexandrine Parakeets were chirping in the trees. They are very large parakeets.

A medeival wheelchair ramp

There were also Rose-ringed Parakeets in the trees. They are smaller than the two.

We went to a Viking restaurant for dinner.

Sunset on the AutoBahn

Home

Atlas: “No one asked me if I wanted to go car shopping!”

Karlsruhe

March 24, 2026March 24, 2026 Timothy Price29 Comments

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

Wildlife Park and Greifvogelzoo Potzberg

March 23, 2026 Timothy Price38 Comments

I Condor you

We went to the Wildlife Park and Greifvogelzoo (Raptor zoo) in Potzberg about 30 minutes north of Bruchmühlbach-Miesau. The park was conceived in the 1970s as a way to attract tourists, and opened in 1984. Due to financial problems, the park was taken over by private management. The privaate management reinvigerted the park, added conservation programs, breeding of rare and endangered spicies, and reintroducing birds back into the wild. They have so many animals, I took nearly way too many photos. It’s sad to see a lot of the raptors in enclosures, but many, like the Condors, seemed content, wanted to play, and were quite interactive. All the animals were very well taken care of.

While on our morning walk, I thought I finally got the Europen Robin. But no, this bird is a Common Chaffinch.

A European Greenfinch

The ever-present Eurasian Blue Tit.

The hotel at the Wild Like Park

A goatlette crawled under to fence and greeted us.

Red Kites were flying around annoying some of the birds in enclosure

I’m no emo, I’m an Emu

Got it?

Andean Condor

Say Uncle and make the paparazzo laugh!

Foghorn Condor

Two male condors wound follow me back and forth, trying to get to my camera while I was trying to photograph the female condors spreading their wings. They were hilarious.

While we were eating lunch at the castle above Landstuhl, I realized the tower and building (Hotel) on the top of then hill across the way is where the Wild Life park is.