ghost of nature.

before i start talking about point alpha a bit, i wanted to share a few pictures that i made on a day that involved a short bicycle tour & lazying around afterward, because i was so sore from this bumpy ride ;) i took a small ride around our village, it was quite a little odyssey as i was choosing pathways that were really bumpy. i even ended up on a field because the path ended abruptly. i took the field road, but it was not funny or comfortable to ride it, haha. but i continued to do so, as there was a tractor on the field and i was afraid that he'd stop me and scold me for taking a ride over crop fields '_'; i escaped successfully, scaring some deer in the nearby fields away. when i think back now, it's kind of funny to me - i'm still seeing the startled eyes of those poor deer as they realized there was an intruder in their district who sped at full tilt past them. on this picture i took a break after that very bumpy ride at a little nature prese...

after i had another appointment ( this time it was a dentist appointment in sömmerda - my birth town ) i decided to take a walk by the unstrut river . it was a nice one and i appreciate this little river more and more the older i get. it's the biggest river in my homeland area, and i really don't know why i never saw the beauty it possesses when i was young. in the town park of sömmerda . sömmerda is a really tiny city, and really provincial. i never liked the town when i was young, but these days i rediscover it bit by bit and have to admit that now i think it's a beautiful and charming city. one day i will present you a good bird photograph but until then you need to accept my attempts. this was the best i could do with this little woodpecker hanging in the trees. leaf buds about to burst open. i really liked the purple colour. even though the unstrut river is not a big one, it surely is idyllic. a little irrigation dam. this was probab...