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Another fly agarlic

I discorved this strong fellow during a walking-tour in autumnal Sauerland. It’s not too far away from my home and we visited the Latrop valley in the county of Hochsauerland. A lot of trails invite the tourist to enjoy nature. In that little spot of Latrop, at the end of a road, you’ll find an […]

First decoration for autumn

Autumn has reached our living room. Darkness is coming earlier every day now and we like to sit in candlelit rooms. Cones are lying around all over the forest and stores with lots of decoration articles offer all sorts of mushrooms in all shapes, colors and materials. I’m fond of fly agarics and arranged one […]

Splendid view

Driving down to Koblenz or Bad Kreuznach  I thought more than once about stopping at this service area. It promises a view on the valley of Moselle from both sides of the bridge on motorway A61 crossing the river. This year wer finally decided to take a rest and see if there’s really something special […]

Surprise

This year I left all my tomato plants in flowerpots and honestly I didn’t even look after them very often. The pickings however were quite considerable and to our great pleasure we could harvest them before our summer holiday. The pots went straightaway to the back of our garden and the plants into the composter. […]

Bastelesel worldwide

Bastelesel – a link of the German words Basteln = handicraft and Esel = donkey. In English I’d call myself the pottering donkey. I’m always looking for new ideas to reproduce and many foreign websites are very very interesting. I want to participate and tell about my projects in return. For the future I’ll try […]