Category Archives: My photos

Regenbogen

A storm front just moved through, complete with rain, hail and thunder. But afterwards…

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Click for a bigger version. If you look closely, you can see some supernumerary rainbows below the main one on the right.

Update: Here’s another one, which the next rainshower produced. View towards the East at sunset.

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Spring has sprung!

On my walks during the past few days I’ve seen all kinds of spring flowers and buds on all the trees and bushes. During the weekend we had temperatures up to 20°C (68°F) for the first time.

The woods are full of bear’s leek (wild garlic, Bärlauch):

Veronica / Ehrenpreis:

Corydalis / Hohler Lerchensporn:

Lesser celandine / Scharbockskraut:

Cowslip / Schlüsselblume:

??? / Springkraut:

Dead-nettles / Taubnesseln:

Viola / Veilchen:

Chickweed / Vogel-Sternmiere:

A stork on one of the two stork nests in our village:

(BTW, I found out that I barely know any names for German/European wildflowers in English. I had to look up all the translations.)