Flower carpet and flower wall, in Bad Homburg

Bad Homburg had some striking resemblance to Westchester NY. We walked around a garden adjacent to the golf course. There was a spa that Kaiser Wilhelm I and II seem to have frequented. 

 

 

Rhodes archeological museum

Rhodes Old Town is a romantic and nicely preserved place to walk around (but be aware, dinner is an interestig experience with everyone trying to get you into their restaurants as nicely as possible). The archeological museum is one of the main feastures, and very impressive with everything from your school days textbook in front of you. But what I liked the most was the garden that is hidden past the museum cafe on the second floor, maybe because nobody was there, or maybe because every stone object lying around in the garden is actually "real" from 1500 to 2000 years ago.

Weekend in bloom

At Palmen Garten in Frankfurt.

In purple

 

In a matter of 2 weeks from when I last visited the Palmen Garten, spring seems to have erupted from the ground already in the 1 degree temperature. I can't wait to be able to read books outside while picnicking.

Into the Swedish forest

 

I am back at the summer house in western Sweden. The weather has been the opposite of this past summer, but looking outside the window there was a hint of blue sky today, so we ventured into the forest. There were lots of trees that have been unearthed, likely due to the shallow roots because this area has lots of stone base underneath.

 

 

Deeper into the forest, we came across some last popping of mushrooms but not enough of the edible ones to bring home for dinner.

 

 

We also walked past some olden stone fence that are of no use today and some other pretty sites of old barks and fallen leaves.

 

 

At the end of the forest, we encountered a pair of bulls. We wanted the bulls to come close to us without running us into the fence, but we were too scared to entice them any closer.

 

Spotted

The walkways in the parks were spotted in yellow.

Beautiful in red

 

Red, green, and yellow

Leaves burning in red and yellow amid the green. On the street and at Palmengarten in Frankfurt.










 

Fall is fully here

Finally, a stroll around Palmengarten with the little one. Lo and behold fall is almost turning into winter.

A series of tree stumps

These tree stumps looked so alive and invasive.

These pictures are not to be confused with deforestation, as this is a world heritage site of rock carvings in Sweden, hence the trees would be well protected.

Octopus tree

Beautiful susuki covered mountains