joi, 26 aprilie 2012

métro station

designed with my favorite colors...

sâmbătă, 21 aprilie 2012

sâmbătă, 14 aprilie 2012

Burgruine Staufen

the castle ruin in Staufen (last weekend)

vineri, 6 aprilie 2012

walk in the park

Schloßgarten, Karlsruhe

duminică, 1 aprilie 2012

Schluchsee

Sometimes there is a sandy beach below the wall - I took this picture remembering lovely summer hours on the beach. The water level of the lake is changing as the lake is part of a pumped storage hydropower plant (in my language: Pumpspeicherkraftwerk).

luni, 26 martie 2012

Spring

A view of the Feldberg summit taken on my probably last cross country ski tour of the season on Saturday ... and some of my favourite spring flowers.

luni, 19 martie 2012

blaue Wiese

The blue meadow in the Schloßgarten in Karlsruhe is in full bloom again. This year I took some pictures of it in the sunshine.

miercuri, 7 martie 2012

ducks

swimming on Titisee (a lake in the Black Forest).

joi, 1 martie 2012

dog-tired II

I must confess that I took inspiration from Talon for this post (title & picture).
That's a dog I saw in the autumn in Bucharest and it looks like I feel right now. Today is the 5th day that I spend in bed sick from some virus... the fever and the cough don't seem to want to leave me :(

miercuri, 22 februarie 2012

weekend in Staufen im Breisgau


The castle ruin seen from our hotel room.

The view from the castle ruin where we made a picknick. The mountains in the background are the Vosges.

Crack in a wall in the historical center. Staufen has major problems because it is rising every day - until now it has risen 30 cms. The rising happens because of a drilling operation that was conducted to provide geothermal energy; the drilling brought water to an anhydrite layer that is expanding because of the contact with the water.

luni, 13 februarie 2012

Wetterbuchen

I have posted pictures of these wind-shaped trees on the Schauinsland mountain before. They were taken in the summer - now you can see one of the trees in the winter, covered in snow.

sâmbătă, 4 februarie 2012

- 15° C

Despite the freezing cold (-15 ° C) I went skiing again this morning.
The "80 km" sign is part of the "Fernskiwanderweg Schonach-Belchen", a 100-km-tour through the Black Forest which is marked by the orange symbol (to be seen in the picture, too). I have never done all of the 100 kms - just parts of it.
That's the only picture I took - it was too cold to stop more...