Green!
To me it looks as if the willow was a large brush that had just been dipped into the paint pot in front of it. We had driven our bikes east out of Schwabstedt to cross the geest to the Treene … read more or write a comment …
Rain!
This is how it can be if you have admired great cloud moods over the marsh landscape before. I was on my way to the station in Friedrichstadt, where my car was parked, when I was surprised by this cloudburst. … read more or write a comment …
Cloud picture above Eiderstedt
On one of the rainy days I was on the Eiderstedt peninsula by car. South of me, a wonderful wall of clouds rose above the marsh landscape, surrounded by an almost blue sky. Of course I immediately ran to the right … read more or write a comment …
Eider bridge near Friedrichstadt
Since 03 September 1916, the Eider Bridge near Friedrichstadt has been in service after only two years of construction. With a length of 245 meters, it spans the largest river in Schleswig-Holstein at this point, connecting Friedrichstadt in North Friesland … read more or write a comment …
Autumn arrives — cranes over Buchholz
We heard the whole afternoon today in the garden and also in the house crane yelling. It was great to see swarms of cranes of different sizes moving over us during the gardening work. But this afternoon it was a … read more or write a comment …
St. Jakobi Church Schwabstedt
On that same cloudy morning, when I was down at the Treene bridge, I had also crossed the cemetery of St. Jacob’s Church. It lay so beautifully in the morning light with the dramatic clouds in the background. The second … read more or write a comment …
Morning clouds over the Treene in Schwabstedt
In the morning we heard again and again the flocks of geese resting outside Schwabstedt on one of the marsh meadows near the Treene. This morning there were still so beautiful clouds hanging over the marsh landscape, I quickly walked … read more or write a comment …
Dramatic Clouds above the Treene
Right on the first evening of our holiday on the Eiderstedt peninsula we were pulled out by bike into the Treenemarsch. It should be an unforgettable late summer evening with dramatic clouds about us, which we don’t know from home. There … read more or write a comment …
Shit — slipped!
I liked to watch the bees on the yellow coneflowers. At the end of the day they were usually quite tired and only moved slowly on the flowers. This wild bee crawled out like a springboard on one of the … read more or write a comment …
Bee in spider’s web
As soon as bees and bumble bees are happy on the cone flowers, other animals also try their luck with these plants. A spider had stretched its web between the flowers and one evening I found this bee in it. … read more or write a comment …
Hey — get off my nectar source!
If bees could talk to each other … such a communication could have taken place here. It is always interesting to observe several bees cavorting on one of the coneflower blossoms. Here again once on the coneflower of the type »Baby Swan White«, … read more or write a comment …
Coneflowers & Bees
As the first flower of lavender slowly came to an end, we were able to offer bees and bumble bees a good nectar-rich substitute for their feeding in our garden. It was beautiful to see how the bees were making … read more or write a comment …