From the balconies of life….

This photo was taken on our annual visit to spend the second Christmas holiday with family in Franconia. I stood on the balcony of my childhood home overlooking the farm buildings (arranged in a U-shape) and the very close neighboring rooftops. Coming from a “farm” in Germany meant growing up in a house separated from the pig sty and barn only by a cobblestone courtyard. The animals we had never saw the light of day. The fields were outside the village and we had to get there by tractor, or sometimes on foot to join in the work at a later time. A very familiar smell was the manure pile across from our kitchen window facing the courtyard. In the summertime that same wall of the house was covered with a black sheet of flies.

Here I stood on that balcony and looked at the same shingles. Nothing had changed.

This photo was taken from our present balcony in Oberursel/Taunus this morning. Again, I have faced this view for the past ten years, but this morning I especially enjoyed the fog, the mist, and the bits of snow on the ground.

Some other posts you might like to read

• I have been walking for more than 45 years
• English Word Game
• Listening by phone

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