 geranium house
|  geranium house
|  barn
The building may once have been part of the town fortifications. Loophole window. Sagging 'yoke' ridge. The lower tile courses have been renewed. Support somewhat wanting. Foreground: Maple and elder.
|  shutters
|  shutters
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 shutters
|  banded reflexions
The first span of the bridge which the Beinstein Gate was supposed to guard. (A convenient mid river island serves as base for the middle pillar. Usual location of choice for such bridges.)
|  banded reflexions.mov
|  Ardea cinerea
Grey Heron
|  mallard hen
should be a brown beaked mallard hen (or a very cleverlly disguised drake)
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 sprig of bramble
Blackberries. Swimming aid assisted harvesting is not recommended.
|  Impatiens glandulifera + Epilobium
Showy Himalayan Balsam and slightly wooly Great Willowherb
|  Impatiens glandulifera + Epilobium
|  Impatiens glandulifera
A stowaway under the bottom leaf is bidding his time.
|  Impatiens glandulifera
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 Impatiens glandulifera
|  Impatiens glandulifera
|  Epilobium hirsutum
|  muddy waters with driftwood
|  ditched shopping cart
Made no salvage attempt. Gut feeling, the token slot will be empty anyhow.
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 between moat and river
catch myself a tadpole
|  Hedera
Flowers in fall and bears fruit in spring. Counter cyclic if nothing else.
|  Hedera
|  Hedera
Umbels with ripe and unripe berries. Umbels (corymbs with single branching point) are the characteristic hallmark of the carrot family but Ivy is distantly related (second cousins once removed). Different family, selfsame order: Apiales.
|  Hedera
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 between moat and river
fire bug on Sedum
|  Phytolaccia americana
Pokeweed. Introduced, as the name implies, but the local birdlife takes to it. (Gizzard winged seed dispersal - which may explain the present location.)
|  Phytolaccia americana
|  Phytolaccia americana
Candles burn from top to bottom, racemes flower (ripen) from bottom to top. One way to keep them apart.
|  Phytolaccia americana
some time lapse licence
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 Chelidonium majus
Greater Celandine. The old town wall hardly distinguishable from a natural rockface.
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