😼 I am a cat 吾輩は猫である

2024 年 3 月 6 日

I think most of us would rather forget the year 2020. The lockdowns, the travel restrictions, the masks, the Zoom video meetings.....

But one thing I did learn from that time was that I did not have to go far to discover little delights in my local area.

So with that in mind I present to you a selection of simple photos, all taken within a 6km radius of my flat.

地元の景色

Let's start Locus iste - in this place.

This week I am looking after Maggy, who is 18 years old. She is the star of the show this week.

Envious? well, she is actually a lot of work, because she needs to take medicine, and can't go outside. And she wakes me up in the morning........🤨

She looks a bit scruffy doesn't she? That's because she can't bend around and lick her back anymore. I wonder if you can buy a hair brush for a cat? There are hairs all over the flat!

マギーちゃんのせわをしていします.....彼女は18歳です!

羨ましいですか？😉

もう腰をかがめて背中を舐めることができないので、彼女は少しだらしなく見えます。猫用のヘアブラシを買ってもらえませんか？毛はアパートにそこらじゅうがあります。

"This is my warm spot"

賢い猫

....a walk in the early morning, and it's still a bit wintry......

早朝

we haven't quite got rid of Jack Frost yet.....

まだ霜が降りています

But here and there......

あちこち

.... creatures are beginning to move.....at least in my attic.....

やねうらべやには生命がある.....

I wish I could sleep like this.....

私も寝たいです

The church at Dreieich-Sprendlingen

with a stream running through the village

村に小川があります

and baroque flourishes on the vicarage door

Yes, here they are.....the crocuses....

Down the road in Dreieichenhain there is a ruined castle.......

Langen

On the way to Zeppelinheim. This was a settlement built in 1938 especially for maintenance crews and pilots of the airship company. It's only a 20 min ride away. If the way is not blocked, that is......

ツェッペリンハイムに行きますが、代わりに飛行機を見ます

Here you would expect to see Zeppelins. No, the've all gone now. Instead there is a memorial to the Berlin Airlift. In 1948, When Stalin decided he wanted to have Berlin all for himself, the Allies had to feed the people of Berlin - As Frankfurt is only 550 Km away from Berlin it was chosen as one of the distribution points. Here are two of the original planes..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade