Autumn air and atmosphere

Would you like to have breakfast with me???

And afterwards take some photos together???

;-)

"Unter den Linden", the "inn in the meadows" at Rothenburg, Germany,
is our favourite place on a Sunday morning for this plan.

The breakfast buffet is gorgeous, but - psst - don't tell it anybody else, otherwise it'll be too overcrowded the next time you and I go there.

And: it's a great place to contemplate and to take some moody photographs, especially in autumn time.

The open-air pub of "Unter den Linden" is directly located at the bank of the river Tauber; which is quite a flat little creek 10 kilometers after it's origin. 

"Foliage boots" on the river...

Angelika, the tenant, and her team know how to decorate modestly but in a good style at once
and so you find seasonal bouquets everywhere in and outside the small inn.

So, when do we meet there in Rothenburg???

;-)

Intensive colours

Currently I can't get enough of the spring flowers this season,

although I've so little time to take photographs and to enjoy them extensively.

 

Red Fireworks.

Red explosion.

Purple blossom power balls...

...and purple fragility.

Yellow flower beauty.

And yellow arch support. 

;-)

Black and white - two sides of the same coin.

White flower dream.

And finally one of its greatest worshippers!

Enjoy a colourful week!

Bougainvillea glabra

Paperflower - among others - is another name for this beauty, native of South America, because

the tiny white flowers usually appear in clusters surrounded by colorful papery bracts.

As you are able to see, I reworked my today's photos with different types of textures.

As some of you already know, I'm more a fan of displaying my photographs without texture (attitude: a good photo doesn't normally need any 'camouflage' by textures), but every now and then I try to find a different imagery.

 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - so it's up to you to judge my work.

The Bougainvillea plant I took photos of is standing in a bigger flower pot right of the entrance of the house where I live.

In wintertime I take the pot and put my Bougainvillea to a frost-free and bright place until May next year.

This photo above is my personal favourite with regard to the texture.

What do you think?

Have a great workweek!

Agapanthus.

Nothing else.

Genesis.

Pure essence. 

Beauty and purity.

Agapanthus photograph with no frills.

And with texture.

Better? Or just different?

Enjoy your weekend - with or without World Cup!

Larkspur meets oriental poppy

Or: blue meets pink

Namely this Sunday afternoon while driving back from a breakfast at Rothenburg.

Enjoy the colours and the shapes!

A wonderful week to all of you!

Rittersporn trifft Türkischen Mohn.

Oder: Blau trifft Rosa.

Und zwar am heutigen Sonntag Nachmittag auf der Rückfahrt von eimem Frühstück in Rothenburg.

Genießt die wundervollen Farben und Formen!

Euch allen eine schöne Woche!

Sea of Purple

Island of Bornholm, Denmark,

end of May / beginning of June 2012.

Have you ever seen such a "Sea of Purple",

such a huge field of flowering chives??? 

That's a true eyecatcher, isn't it?

The photos I took are from two different chive fields at two different areas on the Danish island Bornholm, in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Obviously the farmers cultivate the millions of  chive plants to reap their seeds - to sell them on to nurseries / market gardens all over the world.

So whenever you spice up your salat or dish with chopped chives, you have a good chance that the seeds of your Allium schoenoprasum plant are from one of these fields... ;-)

Typical pale purple colour of  the star-shaped flower with six petals of a chive plant, producing a dense inflorescence of 10 - 30 flowers together. Before opening, the inflorescence is surrounded by a papery bract.

Sea of Purple in the front with Baltic Sea in the background.

transparency and fragility

Taken yesterday evening in the garden of my parents

I got the summer roses blues...

Kann halt nicht aus meiner Haut heraus: Bin ein bekennender "Plümschen"-Fotograf...

...die können einfach nicht weglaufen wenn ich komme! ;-)

The leopard can't change its spots - literally: I cannot change / I cannot get out of my skin: I'm an avowing photographer of "florets"...

...they cannot run away if I come! ;-)

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                                        ¸.* ¸.*´¨) ¸.•*¨)

                                        (¸.*´ (¸.•´ (¸.•*´¯`*•->   beauty and transience...

 What a pity I cannot attach the scent of the roses here on my blog...

Red Poppies...

...from yesterday evening.

Just watch and enjoy.

I popped out and popped in (to) a poppy field to pop some poppy blossoms.

;-))