50th parallel north
Identification marker for this parallel, starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, a circle of latitude 50 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, that crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America (Canada), and the Atlantic Ocean, and also runs in Mainz through the Cathedral and Gutenberg Square – at this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 4 minutes during the winter solstice – on June 21, the maximum altitude of the sun is 63.83 degrees, and on December 21 it is 16.17 degrees
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Wiesbadens südlichster Stadtteil ist Kostheim: bisher weitgehend unbeachtet verläuft quer durch den Hof dieses Hauses auch der fünfzigste Grad nördlicher Breite
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Album Description –
Maaraue & Mechthildshausen, Germany – 03-05FEB2015:
Great crew, and an on-time Frankfurt arrival: that's very good!
Petra drove from her apartment in Schwalbach and picked me up at 1 p.m. Thursday (no arrival nap for me, so we could see something with the sun shining). We headed over the Rhine to Maaraue, the confluence of the Main and Rhine Rivers. We sat conversing by the Main shoreline on a bench until winter winds whipping near-freezing temperatures liked to froze us, then chatted along the riverwalk upstream to an observation tower near the middle bridge of the Mainz “Three Bridges Walk”, a 5-mile 2-hour circuit crossing the Main River once and Rhine River twice. (After the current grueling winter flight schedule ends & our crew arrives again early morning in Frankfurt, I plan to nap – and have daylight remaining to go on this Walk.)
Petra and I continued on our excursion into late afternoon, and she was looking forward to travelling the next day to Berlin to vacation with a friend. It was fun to invite Petra to go eat and to shop at the Domäne Mechthildshausen, an organic farm serving their own ingredients in their own restaurants, plus selling it in their shops.
(At the Domain I bought 2 loaves of bread: triple-rise sourdough, and spelt; on Sunday Joe and I brought these to share, for lunch and for the concert reception.)
Petra dropped me back off at the hotel on her way to stop by Fichteplatz to return the key to the Gerber family children from their parent’s now-vacated apartment.
I learned "a lot". When I got home, Friday night I went to bed and slept a healing 16 hours.
Saturday evening Joe and I went to a lovely Carolina Pro Musica early music concert, the next mid-morning and mid-afternoon to my brother John’s New Life Lutheran Church in New London, where I played flute with the organist. Joe and I ate Sunday lunch with my brother and his family, a super visit – time flying by fast – and we all went to the wonderful Cantamos choral concert, a great reception and fellowship following the standing ovation. Soli Deo Gloria!
Enjoy my 20% best photos from this layover, in a 2-album set:
• Maaraue, Germany – 2015FEB05
• Mechthildshausen, DE – 2015FEB05
50th parallel north
Identification marker for this parallel, starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, a circle of latitude 50 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, that crosses Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America (Canada), and the Atlantic Ocean, and also runs in Mainz through the Cathedral and Gutenberg Square – at this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 4 minutes during the winter solstice – on June 21, the maximum altitude of the sun is 63.83 degrees, and on December 21 it is 16.17 degrees
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Wiesbadens südlichster Stadtteil ist Kostheim: bisher weitgehend unbeachtet verläuft quer durch den Hof dieses Hauses auch der fünfzigste Grad nördlicher Breite
______________________________________________
Album Description –
Maaraue & Mechthildshausen, Germany – 03-05FEB2015:
Great crew, and an on-time Frankfurt arrival: that's very good!
Petra drove from her apartment in Schwalbach and picked me up at 1 p.m. Thursday (no arrival nap for me, so we could see something with the sun shining). We headed over the Rhine to Maaraue, the confluence of the Main and Rhine Rivers. We sat conversing by the Main shoreline on a bench until winter winds whipping near-freezing temperatures liked to froze us, then chatted along the riverwalk upstream to an observation tower near the middle bridge of the Mainz “Three Bridges Walk”, a 5-mile 2-hour circuit crossing the Main River once and Rhine River twice. (After the current grueling winter flight schedule ends & our crew arrives again early morning in Frankfurt, I plan to nap – and have daylight remaining to go on this Walk.)
Petra and I continued on our excursion into late afternoon, and she was looking forward to travelling the next day to Berlin to vacation with a friend. It was fun to invite Petra to go eat and to shop at the Domäne Mechthildshausen, an organic farm serving their own ingredients in their own restaurants, plus selling it in their shops.
(At the Domain I bought 2 loaves of bread: triple-rise sourdough, and spelt; on Sunday Joe and I brought these to share, for lunch and for the concert reception.)
Petra dropped me back off at the hotel on her way to stop by Fichteplatz to return the key to the Gerber family children from their parent’s now-vacated apartment.
I learned "a lot". When I got home, Friday night I went to bed and slept a healing 16 hours.
Saturday evening Joe and I went to a lovely Carolina Pro Musica early music concert, the next mid-morning and mid-afternoon to my brother John’s New Life Lutheran Church in New London, where I played flute with the organist. Joe and I ate Sunday lunch with my brother and his family, a super visit – time flying by fast – and we all went to the wonderful Cantamos choral concert, a great reception and fellowship following the standing ovation. Soli Deo Gloria!
Enjoy my 20% best photos from this layover, in a 2-album set:
• Maaraue, Germany – 2015FEB05
• Mechthildshausen, DE – 2015FEB05