..what manner of bird be this? I was getting worried. Wasn’t feeling too hot on that particular day and I thought it might be a vulture with ESP. Wrote my…
Araneae Christo et Jeanne-Claude at work
All chicks present and accounted for. Now to keep the bloody cats at bay…
Mother Blackbird headed off for a break and I grabbed this view of her nest in our buxus buxus. More follows
A court in Kassel declared last week that when Frankfurt airport’s 4th runway goes into operation at the end of the month, there are to be no flights between 23:00…
Dusk, anyway. Taken on a farm track between Sörgenloch and Nieder-Olm. iPhone 4
> ….singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise Road Pavementkill…
> I get talked out of half a sesame bagel at breakfast, Ms jb spends GOOD MONEY on a totally unnecessary tin umbrella thingie, even ties a RIBBON around the…
> I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I piss through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot…
> Tracks of the European Conspicio vermes. Certainly up before me this morning
> If you’ve got the money, honey, I’ve got the thyme. Something like that anyway. A patch of Corsican thyme at the place with the patina-ed roof.
> …what manner of feathered creature be this? It’s always a good idea to keep moving when one’s out and about in the fields around here. Not if this is…
> As if we didn’t have enough snow already, the darn stuff’s growing and multiplying. Crystals. Just like you grew at school. Quite cool. If not to say freezing. As…
> Seriously. Over here they have Tree of the Year Bird of the Year Animal of the Year Word of the Year (“Financial Crisis” – duh…) Un-word of the Year…
> Just looking at bare trees makes me feel cold…. On the Rhine flood meadows
> The flood meadows along the Rhine look as if everyone’s been out, taking Great Danes for walkies and not using their plastic bags. On closer inspection, it appears to…
> A blackberry at the instant of conception….
>Please forgive the obsession with spring flowers at the moment, but it is such a joy to see some colour (and patches of sunny weather) after my first European winter.
>This photo depicts how Spring should be – blue sky with big fluffy white clouds, ridiculously yellow blossoms etc. At the moment it is grey sky, howling wind, and big…
>The Cherryblossom trees aren’t the only things in bloom. The ‘easter egg tree’ is a common sight in German gardens at the moment. If only they were real chocolate eggs!
>Despite the fact that it has been freezing for the last few days, the cherry blossoms are out in force. This cherry blossom tree is outside the ‘alte mensa’ at…
> There is a flock of sheep in Bretzenheim! Even though Mainz is classified as a city, the capital city of Rhineland-Pfalz no less, in some respects it maintains the…
>Shortly after I moved to Germany way back in mumble mumble, I showed a girl I went to school with a map of where I was living. “What’s all the…
>People appear to have secateur-fever at the moment. Snip, snip, snip… Can’t get away from it. First it’s the grapevines. Now it’s the pollarded plane trees along the banks of…
>The Netherlands exports 40,000,000 – FORTY MILLION! – tulips a week. Sometimes I think their entire production ends up in our house. A week has 7 days, 168 hours, 10080…
>What organisms cause galls? Most galls are caused by fungi (particularly rusts and smuts) or invertebrates. Prominent among the latter are aphids, mites, psyllids, gall-midges (Cecidomyiidae), gall-flies (Tephritidae), gall-wasps (Cynipidae)…
>It’s getting darker by the day in the mornings, but when we look out onto the deck, it’s almost as if someone’s splashed day-glo ™ paint on this maple Tags:…
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