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
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!”
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
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.
A decent sunset taken from the cemetery across the street.
Cranes flying up north from down south are passing through.
“What’s this uppity women from the Middle Ages stuff? What about uppity middle-aged cats from the here and now? I’m going to go medieval on that paper!”
Sunset
Beaver in the pink
Cranes that flew from down south, on the way north, roosting at 4th of July Point for the night.
Where cranes once foraged A lone duck stood reflecting in the shallows Silence pushed against the current Winter yawned while preparing her bed Spring stirred under leafy covers Dreaming colors that wait her awakening
