early morning walk

 

note: I walked to the river before 7 this morning. Cool 58 and slightly cloudy. Yesterday was in the high 70’s in the morning and low 80’s in the afternoon. Too hot for my old heart.

I took a few photos.

 

will you work there

Vineyards on steep slopes along Mosel River
workers work in precarious balance
O, the riesling, so refreshing.

note: Mrs. Abstract and I just returned from a river cruise which started at Nuremberg and ends at Luxembourg.

 

a place to walk

note: outside Charles Darwin’s House, Darwin’s walking path.

Wordless Monday

note: the largest wine barrel in the world which can hold 1,700,000 liters of wine.

Inside is a restaurant with tables inside a barrel.

It’s in Durkheim,Germany.

 

a question

If I stop talking for fifteen minutes

will you write me a poem?

Is that a creative question?

Or is it a creative request

or neither?

I am curious.

note: several hundred-year old church in Trier, in Germany.

 

Departure time

We share stories, laughter even grief

toast to everyone’s good health

hard to say goodbye.

Nothing more to say

Time

Cruising the Rhine

castles and vineyards on both sides of the river

one for reverie, the other, revelry

I’m ask to choose

time remains a mystery.

hidden laughter

Children hide behind the trees

their eyes between the leaves

laughing with the light.

Cruising the Mosel River