…of winter cycling. Somewhere down there is a concrete farm road. Somewhere…
Bro Paul of Auckland-West fame (and too good a photographer not to resurrect his site) reminded me today that I should by rights be in New Zealand. Thanks for that,…
… brown red, and the sky is grey blue, I’ve been for a walk On an autumnal …… (choose your own…)
Indian Summer in Mainz
Oh. They’re clouds……
…just good days for different things. When it’s blowing a gale and pouring with rain, that’s a good day to sit in a café with mates, not a day to…
Cold front came through on Sunday night, thumping into the North African high that’s been hanging around for a week or more. Proceeded to spawn tornadoes which ripped through a…
The occupancy rate of these tables will increase in direct proportion to the ambient temperature. Bro Paul will doubtless provide us with the formula….
A springtime and autumn ritual. (Seen at Euromaster in Mombach) Shedding summer/winter tires (as appropriate) and donning the reverse. Back in the day, it was common sense to have tires…
…clearing tomorrow.
He’s back, if only in spirit, having fallen off the perch in 2011… A new James Rizzi (I always thought that the pronunciation would be italianate, but it’s not –…
…has surely come. Not this year – they’re looking for an average harvest on account of the dry spring and early summer – and at the moment, they’re scampering to…
He is, of course, facing the wrong way (typical Canon photog…) and blissfully unaware of the fate rapidly approching him from the rear….
Confirmed by a forecast temperature of 34 Celcius (that’s about 150 degrees in old money)
My first thunderstorm in Germany was quite an experience. I’d been used to a) New Zealand where you get 4 seasons in one day b) the UK where it drizzles…
At last
if you’ve had no snow drops…er…fall
…and yes, it’s still raining. Well, drizzle more than real rain, actually, but I’m sure we;ll be breaking records soon
It keeps on reminding you of how bad things can get. A good couple of 100 metres from the Rhein. And I didn’t have to bend down much to take…
Chilly this morning…
THIS is Black and White….. (If you can tell the difference, I sure as hell can’t.)
A DHL delivery van brightens up an early morning Mainz, recovering after a good summer storm thumping yesterday afternoon. I’ve experienced some good storms around here, but this was closer…
Heat waves have differing intensities depending on where you live, it appears. I was in the UK over the weekend and – in a land where anything warmer than 25°C…
We’re perched up here at 180m ASL and it’s something I’m quite happy about at the moment with the way things are developing down in the flatlands. Guest photog and…
An Avanacluia officinalis struggling against the weather.
….er….Ice on a cold Saab roof.
The only buds I’ve seen recently are on this carved door in the Augustinerstrasse….
It also melts. Very slowly
Rocked on over to The Fat Tui at Marahau the other week with Steve and Robin Fullmer. (Steve asks “Now, do you want to go the inneresting way or the…
Sod this for a game of soldiers – first day back from vacation, middle of March, forsythia’s normally blossoming and I’m shovelling WET SNOW? It’s time I left again…
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