Three swans
These swam in front of us, more were off to the right, climbing up onto the riverbank when someone came along to feed them; however, someone else came along with a dog off the leash, which attacked the swans being fed, pandominium ensued until the dog, after repeated dashes into the water after the swans, finally left with its owner [swans: a group is generally and generically called a flock of swans – but, according to the Oxford English Dictionary – the correct appellation is a wedge of swans (when they are flying in a "V" formation)]
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Die Schwäne im Main bei Mainz-Kostheim sind eine Attraktion dieses Wiesbadener Stadtteils: dort (an der Maaraue und am Mainufer), wo der Main in den Rhein mündet, wächst an den Hängen der zweitältesten Weinbaugemeinde im Rheingau nicht nur ein hervorragender Wein, auch die Menschen lieben diesen Ort mit seiner Lebensart und -freude
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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
Three swans
These swam in front of us, more were off to the right, climbing up onto the riverbank when someone came along to feed them; however, someone else came along with a dog off the leash, which attacked the swans being fed, pandominium ensued until the dog, after repeated dashes into the water after the swans, finally left with its owner [swans: a group is generally and generically called a flock of swans – but, according to the Oxford English Dictionary – the correct appellation is a wedge of swans (when they are flying in a "V" formation)]
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Die Schwäne im Main bei Mainz-Kostheim sind eine Attraktion dieses Wiesbadener Stadtteils: dort (an der Maaraue und am Mainufer), wo der Main in den Rhein mündet, wächst an den Hängen der zweitältesten Weinbaugemeinde im Rheingau nicht nur ein hervorragender Wein, auch die Menschen lieben diesen Ort mit seiner Lebensart und -freude
______________________________________________
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