Date(s): 2010. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 17 of 17 Total. 9139 Visits.
1 Kleinheppacher Kopf the downtown view
2 Kleinheppacher Kopf The extended vineyard 'glacis'. Reasonably cluttered up with pruning debris.
3 Kleinheppacher Kopf Muscari botryoides (Common Grape Hyacinth). A typical vineyard fellow traveler. The closely related bluebell, twin-leaved squill (Scilla bifolia) can be found in shady forests. Selfsame vernal launch window.
[The range of focal sharpness has been augmented by shop magic.]
4 Kleinheppacher Kopf Red dog-nettle [Lamium purpureum]. An indicator of well fertilized soils. Textbook example for alternate leaf arrangement (multiply by 'i' and whorl around). Pyllotaxis by the cartwheel number. Other highlights: some of the leaves are suffused with Burgundy red. Top range only. As if some of the flower color had spilled over. Tentatively: Conscripted into inflorescence enhancing bract leaf duty. Poinsettia copyright.
5 Kleinheppacher Kopf Euphorbia something (barrel spurge?). Looks like something sprung free from a glass house. In a case a official example for conscripted bract leaves. (The saucer part of the inflorescence.)
6 Kleinheppacher Kopf, Grundelsbach side Landscape with fence posts and vineyard houses. Hillside vineyards comes in two flavors: shaved (without a forest fringe at the top) and crew cut.
7 Kleinheppacher Kopf, Opuntia hedge The cactus belt is actually there, you just have to look for it. Introduced in post Columbian time.
8 Kleinheppacher Kopf, recreational area Copenhagen model (sort of, you can always splice in an Anderson script).
9 Kleinheppacher Kopf, paragliding Waiting for the wind. The semi inflated 'cells' of the parafoil are visible. A mixture of 'hydrostatic' lace wings and remote controlled organ pipes. - The backpack looks impressive. Whatever it takes to stow away a joey. (And now you know the secrets of moon jumps.) - Probably just envious. - Usage of the launch pad is reserved for club members. The day membership fee is a bearable 2,50 EUR. (I would call it a deal if they would throw in a ski lift pass.)
10 Kleinheppacher Kopf, paragliding Over the glass houses, over the rooftops and over the tree tops. Spot landing in the cow pasture.
11 Kleinheppacher Kopf, paragliding The harness looks comfortable enough. Add an airbag and you could probably market it as an all purpose car seat.
12 Kleinheppacher Kopf , paragliding Never ever accept a racing challenge with the ground hugging shadow of paraglider. (Or with any shadow casting entity for that matter.) The secret is in the differential speeds. Shadow casting on folded surfaces is tricky. - More prosaic: the fakir stakes would also act as disincentive. (If you had to even the score, try gambling. Keyword, randomized events. You would never know where a sufficiently large cotton ball released on the summit would wind up. Just too much pinging. Vineyard lottery.)
13 Kleinheppacher Kopf, commemorative stele Abducted by zephiric spirits. This hill top stele records a long haul ride (a full sized glider rather than a parachute is probably meant). Finally touch down somewhere in the Protectorate (Bohemia). Annus Mirablis 1939. The last days of unperturbed blue skies. More to the point, braced by prevailing West winds. (Some claim that the daring sportsman actually vectored for the Red Square. Lame excuse, the bee wax did melt. Lindbergh icicles would have been at least halfway original.) - The cornflower blue chevron logo looks recent. In any case touched up.
14 Korb-Kleinheppach, Steinzeitmuseum The prehistoric museum of Kleinheppach is located the former Rathaus. The upper two floors were allotted to the cause. (The city hall became available after Kleinheppach was incorporation into Korb. - Incidentally, Grossheppach was incorporated into Weinstadt. And some things will be split right down the middle.)
The sprightly Madame Reinhard, widow of the founder, age 75, still pitches in as tour guide. Some shrine aspects. The founder, various pictures, was a locksmith by profession and prehistoric artifact collector by vocation.
Age old problem, fairly general, replacement would be welcome but deviations from the established routine will not be tolerated. More the rule than the exception. (Military - a very thorny issue, monastery, economic = house management).
Pocket calculation: Virtual hosting would cost a fraction of the brick and mortar solution. Some of the atmosphere would obviously be lost (in fairness, all museum arrangements are second h...
15 Korb-Kleinheppach, Steinzeitmuseum Looks like a recruitment office. Unwary traveler beware.
16 Korb-Kleinheppach, Steinzeitmuseum The snapshots are not very good. Neither my heart nor my flashlight were into it. Picture taking is not exactly encouraged. Uniqueness argument. Had to dig slightly to clarify that.
Top to bottom:
A barn lock counterbalanced by a hollow soup bone.
An adjustable kettle holder
The cast of a 160 million old Remstal turtle. - Jurassic sediments are conspicuous by absence. The Remstal apparently did skip the whole period (completely eroded? or just missing). All fossils are either more recent or much older.
17 Korb-Kleinheppach EK Did miss the 'gecko wall' (peasant houses with farming tools pegged to the barn wall in marquee fashion - mainly forks and yokes, occasionally some heavyweight plow). Pegged as in permanently latched swing door. The ghost world of vertical saloons.
