AT THE TOP OF THE HILL

we saw this man leash two of his dogs, the moment he spotted us on the path farther down. The third was still allowed to walk freely.
When we met halfway, he asked us (seeing us with a map in the hand) where we were heading to. And he explained us how we might walk.
It was a rather strange idea of Piet Hein to suggest we would drive to Helmarshausen and follow a road that we thought would go to no place at all. Normally one would never go there. It is a road in a dark valley and still there were houses build.
We often had wondered who would like to live in such a dark place, where the sun never enters (or that is what we thought).
And now we went to discover what kind of road that was, where this road headed to.
I had been to the hairdresser in the morning, we had our lunch after and rather late had gone on our adventure.
To our big surprise this road that we now were walking, went to a site that was called weekendhouses at the Hainbach. And we saw all kinds of houses, small and bigger ones, build on the slopes at both sides of the brook that was called Hain.
At the end of the path we came near a familar road that we had taken on our road to Langenthal. It started to drizzle, so we did not go farther, but went the path where we saw the man with the dogs.
A surprising walk and it is amazing how we nowadays find such little adventures, not even far away from home.

My haiku:

Every day making
This round, the man with his dogs
He proudly said us

And the proverb:

To slip one's neck out of the collar.

1583  Golding, Calvin on Deut.

My extra photo is a fungi that I discovered yesterday on our walk in the forest.