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Montag, 8. April 2013

...more, more, more harbingers of spring!


On Sunday we had sunshine - Yeah!

And more and more we can find harbingers of spring,
although we still have winter temperatures in large parts of Germany.


On Saturday we visited the "Esslinger Garden Days", an enjoyable event in the pedestrian area of the old town of Esslingen, a city in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.



Several exhibitors presented their products around the topics garden and gardening, among them several flower shops and market gardens with a presentation of the first early flowering plants and flowers.


Pansies in little bottles, tulips and willow catkins were my favourites to take photos from.
But mainly I had my hands in the jacket pockets to keep them warm.

 

At home I took some photos of the almond branches we brought with us from our Easter excursion,
in the meanwhile the buds opened their white and pink petals.


Enjoy your workweek!
Enjoy springtime!


Freitag, 4. Mai 2012

May impressions


Any idea why spring is my favourite season of the year???


The maypole in the little village of Auernhofen, Franconia.


Dandelion bloom versus flourishing apple trees


explosion of the apple blossoms - either in white or in red



May 1 at Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Nearly no tourists, although we had "Kaiserwetter" ( = glorious, sunny weather) all day long. Instead of the tourists from all over the world I was able to take all the "standard tourist photographs" 85% of all Japanese tourists have in their photo albums as well... ;-)



Rothenburg's most popular panorama view - remarkably without any tourists at the photo spot


Flieder - lilac - Syringa vulgaris - the flowering deciduous shrubs with the fragrant flowers


cherry bloosom of a Japanese flowering cherry / Zierkirsche...


...at the riverbank of the Tauber