Monday – A gloomy travel day
Back to Baden-Wuerttemberg. We left Bavaria mid-morning and it took us over six hours to get back home. Long traffic jams around Munich – cars not Elephants this time 🙂 – and a lot of fog along the way made for a longer than usual drive. Now we are back home for a relaxing evening.
I took this picture during the drive – not a very photographic day 😦
More to come …
Sunday – A Family Day – past and present
Today was a true family day. In the morning we visited an aunt and uncle of mine before we had a family dinner in a traditional Bavarian restaurant. Then we met with two uncles, one aunt, seven cousins and their families on the Catholic cemetery in Teisbach to remember all our dead relatives, of whom most were buried in this place. We then had afternoon coffee and dinner with the uncles, aunt and cousins before we retired to our hotel for the last night in Bavaria.
On the way to the cemetery I took this picture of a Rapeseed field. I love the colours.
More to come…
Sunday – Wolpertinger
Seriously :-), the Wolpertinger is a mythogical hybrid animal in Bavarian folklore, which supposed to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria. This specimen was definitely man made and quite scary looking. Bavarian Halloween Special!
More from day 6 later on …
Saturday – Home Town Gate 
I got around a bit in my life. I was born in Switzerland, grew up in the South of Germany, worked in over 20 and travelled to over 50 countries. But my parents are both from Bavaria. They grew up in the same small village – named Teisbach – where even today a lot of Sperkas still live. Every year on All Saints day (1 November) they visit the graves of their parents and many relatives in the small town. This is a Catholic tradition. Together with my brother, my nieces and one of my nephews I am accompanying them on this year’s visit. We have arrived in Bavaria after five hours of travel. The picture is of an old gate of the village of Teisbach.
More to follow soon …
I am working on organizing all the Wildlife images, which I took between 2001 and 2010. This is a major undertaking which will take me many month.
But one of the rewards of this -sometime tedious – work is that I find some good images I have never published before. Here is one of them. Three Cheetah cubs watching their mum going off to hunt.
Precious 🙂
One of my favorite bird images – a Cape Glossy Starling!
An Impala and a Red-billed Oxpecker – An example for a mutualistic symbiosis, a relationship beneficial to two interacting species.
Some of you may know about 500px. This web-based photo community is known for the high quality of its image content. I joined 500px today and I will regularly upload some of my best images onto the site.
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I selected this – my favorite – leopard image as the cover image for 500px!
My favorite picture today – a tiny Ostrich!
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