tags: Frankfurt Tree, Frankfurterbaum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Expat Life, Frankfurt through my eye, photography, image of the day
Frankfurterbaum (Frankfurt Tree).
Reidberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
New Year's Eve day was so misty that I could barely see out of the window of my flat, so I grabbed my cameras and went to a nearby farmer's field to photograph trees. Unfortunately, the fog was thicker 40 meters above the ground, so the trees did not appear to be as magical as I had hoped. In this image, I was trying to capture the solitude of the tree, standing there alone in the middle of this large tilled field.
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It isn't your best picture, but I like it!
I wish you a Happy New Year and many adventures exploring your new life and your new home
Posted by: kevin R | January 2, 2010 7:09 PM
But ... I miss the power lines. I truly do. I used to work on them and have always liked the way they look in the fog. The graceful caternaries disappearing into the distance.
Working the towers is also very rhythmic, sort of a slow waltz. At height every move is planned and double checked. Nothing is rushed.
Working a tower is also very quiet, and in an odd way private. You see everything for miles but people and wildlife seldom seem to notice you on the tower. There is a lot of time to look around while they rig loads and set stuff up. I often carried a small pair of binoculars. Spent a lot of time 'inspecting the insulators for carbon tracking and cracks'.
It's a nice tree. Very picturesque. But I miss the power lines.
Posted by: Art | January 2, 2010 8:35 PM
But no frankfurters. Must be off-season.
Posted by: Lassi Hippeläinen | January 3, 2010 2:27 AM
Lassi - The trees here are bred to ripen much later than in Finland, in September rather than early June. That's why they have a better flavour than the Finnish näkki, and also why they celebrate the harvest in Octoberfest, rather than mid-summer.
Posted by: Bob O'H | January 3, 2010 6:03 AM
Happy New Year from the besnowed Taunus!
The village in the background must be Niederursel, or something, right? In any case, please keep posting pix, it's nice to see one's hometown through another person's eyes. I hope you have adjusted well to Frankfurt; the longer I've been away the more I like it when I'm here.
But, Bob, "Octoberfest"? We celebrate that here? Never knew ... [/snark]
Posted by: Ben Breuer | January 3, 2010 6:46 AM