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237/366: 2016
Busy day today and I hadn't got my pic, so grabbed a few old books and dead roses...yes, I do keep dead roses as photo props, you never know when they will come in handy! ;)...and put this together, wasn't overly pleased with it so played with it in processing, it's not quite what I had in mind and I can't remember what I did but it was fun to try something different!
Die Freiheitsstatue im Hessischen Ried - The Statue of Liberty in the Hessian Ried
Golfpark Riedstadt - Golf Park Riedstadt
In the Taunus Mountains near Bad Soden, Germany, a classic springtime view. This is apple-growing country, and apple wine is a favorite local drink (called Apfelwein in German, or Äppelwoi in the local Hessian dialect). An archives shot taken with my very first DSLR camera. [PICT4111_lr_2000]
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On the left bank of the Weser, above Bad Karlshafen, are the Hessian Cliffs. You will find such significant places when you hike through the forest there as the Peter-Peter-Hütte in the Dreiländereck, the Hugenottenturm from 1913 or the Ludwig-Stein, a memorial stone.
Poor camel having to listen to that noise all day. I use it on the front door handle, that's bad enough.
Some tiny 'Yellow Pear' tomatoes, no more than 1 cm wide and a little hessian bag. I think it worked. For Macro Mondays, this week's theme is: contained. Happy Macro Mondays/ HMM
The Hessians love their apple trees, and so do I. From this tree I was able to enjoy a few delicious apples in the fall.
Marköbel, Hesse/Germany
This week, on a walk in the forest, I met an animal that doesn't really belong here. It was eating acorns and didn't care about me
In Germany—where the raccoon is called the Waschbär (literally, "wash-bear" or "washing bear") due to its habit of "dousing" food in water—two pairs of pet raccoons were released into the German countryside at the Edersee reservoir in the north of Hesse in April 1934 by a forester upon request of their owner, a poultry farmer. He released them two weeks before receiving permission from the Prussian hunting office to "enrich the fauna." Several prior attempts to introduce raccoons in Germany were not successful. A second population was established in eastern Germany in 1945 when 25 raccoons escaped from a fur farm at Wolfshagen (today district of Altlandsberg), east of Berlin, after an air strike. The two populations are parasitologically distinguishable: 70% of the raccoons of the Hessian population are infected with the roundworm Baylisascaris procyonis, but none of the Brandenburgian population has the parasite. The estimated number of raccoons was 285 animals in the Hessian region in 1956, over 20,000 animals in the Hessian region in 1970 and between 200,000 and 400,000 animals in the whole of Germany in 2008. By 2012 it was estimated that Germany now had more than a million raccoons (Wikipedia)
Olympus E-M1 Mark II + Olympus 40-150mm F2.8 + MC-14
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Former cloister Haydau lies in the district Alt-Morschen of the municipality Morschen in the Schwalm Eder Kreis in Hesse. It is the cloister best of all preserved in his architectural continuance of the Cisterciansinnen in Hesse.
In 1232 landgrave Konrad von Thüringen and his field captain Friedrich von Treffurt to Spangenberg attacked the Mainz broad city of Fritzlar. They pillage and threaten to burn the town, they burnt down and looted the conventual church Saint Peter. Friedrich's family to the Fritzlarer provost Gumbert offered to the penalty obliged her endowment around the moor, so Haydau. On the 23rd of January, 1235 provost Gumbert confirmed this handing over to the Cisterciansinnen.
In the middle of the 14th century cloister of Haydau had developed not only to a spiritual-cultural, but also an economic centre in which the landgraves of Hessian had pledged towns and villages.
Rotenburg an der Fulda, is a town in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, in central Germany, situated, as the name says, on the river Fulda.
The town lies south of the Stölzinger Gebirge (range) in the narrowest part of the Fulda valley. The town's lowest point lies at 180 m above sea level in the area near the two bridges across the Fulda linking Rotenburg's Old Town and New Town; these are the Alte Fuldabrücke (“Old Fulda Bridge”) and the Brücke der Städtepartnerschaften (“Bridge of Town Partnerships”). The town's highest point is the 548.7 m-high Alheimer, lying on the town limit between Rotenburg and the neighbouring community of Alheim.
The nearest major towns are Bebra (some 6 km to the southeast) and Bad Hersfeld (some 16 km to the south), The nearest cities are Kassel (some 50 km to the north) and Fulda (some 70 km to the south). In 769, the outlying centres of Braach and Lispenhausen, along with the now vanished village of Breitingen (which lay somewhere near the Hochmahle) had their first documentary mentions in the Hersfeld Abbey’s directory of holdings. These consisted of six estates and 90 Morgen of land.
The Gisonen were the Abbey’s Vögte (singular: Vogt). They built the first security castle in the Fulda valley once they had come to hold the Vogtei (the right to be Vogt). Around this castle arose a settlement. The Landgraves of Thuringia, who inherited the Vogtei from the Gisonen, built on the Alter Turm (mountain) Rodenberg Castle, which today lies in ruins, but is believed to be the town’s namesake.
The settlement on the Fulda’s left bank, today’s Altstadt (“Old Town”), had its first documentary mention as a town in 1248, and after the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession in 1264 the town belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse. The old castle in the valley had supposedly been removed sometime after 1423. In 1470 arose the first Schloss Rotenburg. A great town fire destroyed the Old Town in 1478 along with the newly built Schloss. Between 1627 and 1834, Rotenburg was a residence town of the landgrave family of Hesse-Rotenburg, the so-called Rotenburger Quart.
Rotenburg in an engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1655
In 1615, 57 houses burnt down in Braach, and in the Thirty Years' War, in 1637, the town and the town hall burnt. The fire was set by soldiers from the Isolani Regiment. In March 1882, the volunteer fire brigade was started as a club. In 1900 it acquired an equipment shed with a drying tower near the Fulda.
He loves playing ball at the dog park but also loves playing in the water there. He would spend at least half the time in the water playing yet when we get home and he needs a bath it's like lifting a hessian bag of potatoes, nothing but dead weight. He hates the bath, go figure.
2/30: April: A month in 30 pictures
Yesterday's flowers making another appearance.
The other photos in my lace collection can be found here:
Hessian Hill, Cornish, Maine.
Panorama view of the old Day Farm up on Hessian Hill today after a sticky snowstorm last night.
handmade by me in pewter and mounted on purple hessian
The story:
- many moons ago, when our children were small and I 'worked' as a full-time housewife and mother, Ray used to babysit one evening a week while I attended Adult Education classes in various subjects
- in this class I learned to fashion pictures in copper or pewter from designs the tutor provided and using hand tools
- as it happens August 22nd 1970 was our wedding date which makes 56 years together today
- so please have an extra smile for us today in Smile on Saturday 💘🌹💘
160/366: 2016
Or maybe not...I'm pretty sure I can squeeze another photo or two from these salsify seeds
313/365: 2015
For Macro Mondays theme weathered or worn. I've covered both angles here as the hydrangea is weathered and the Victorian buttons, from my craft stash, are worn. HMM
Sweet Peas from my garden together with a hedgerow flower - placed in a silver spoon on a piece of hessian cloth.
For the Macro Monday challenge "String" (October 19th 2020)
I think of it as 'real' string. It is coarse, has real texture, frays at the ends, and is so much more photogenic than modern string! Looking it up online it is described variously as "Rustic Twine String" or "Hessian jute twine". I imagine it is the kind that the song refers to here: "brown paper packages tied up with strings" ;o)
This piece measures just under 2"
HMM!!
My 2020 Macro Mondays set: Here
and previous years of the challenge:
My 2019 Macro Mondays set: Here
My 2018 set: 2018 Macro Mondays
My 2017 set: 2017 Macro Mondays
My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My 2015 set: 2015 Macro Mondays
My 2014 set: 2014 Macro Mondays
My 2013 set: 2013 Macro Mondays
There'll be more beautiful shots elsewhere but I was drawn to these hessian sacks because of their folds and texture.
Bensheimer Hof zwischen Leeheim und Erfelden im Hessischen Ried
Bensheimer Hof (farm) between Leeheim and Erfelden in Hessian Reed
und die blauen Schafe
St. Ludwig and the blue sheep
Everyone is equal, everyone is important
Hessische Theatertage - Hessian theatre days - Darmstadt
Fermenting balloons for apple cider
More information about the special Hessian apple wine:
11/01/2025
Theme for 'Smile on Saturday! :)' "Anything with A!"
Cornish, Maine.
Distant lightening looking north west and north east from Hessian Hill in Cornish tonight.
Lots of thunderstorms moving through the area this evening and plenty of lightening but a lot of rain also, these shots where taken from inside my Jeep as it was raining to hard at the time to be able to shoot outside.
A still life using a Drill and some bolts and screws. Only learning at the moment but will get there.
Cornish, Maine.
Panorama view of the sunset today from Hessian Hill in Cornish.
This first sunset of September was almost as good as yesterday's sunset, the last day Of August.
Cornish, Maine.
I actually made it up onto Hessian Hill in Cornish today in time to catch the sunset and it did not disappoint.
165/366: 2016
The weekly theme is have fun with colour
Macro Monday's theme - Stripes
I love to decorate things so when I was stuck for an idea today, I ventured into my craft room to see what I could come up with. I found the striped ribbon, wrapped it around a jar, tied a bit of string round and filled the jar with buttons. HMM