The dancing tree

Today started in a lazy way. Not without some excercise, but not outside under the Oaktree. Then I walked down to town through the forest alongside the Little Brook. At the cascade I stayed some while, taking a picture and...indeed listening into the eternal splashing of the falling waterstream. It really sounds like applauding laughter!
An icy wind blew from the East as I crossed the Weserbridge. After picking up a package - which I had missed yesterday - at the postoffice, I took some time to look around in this nice little bookstore annex postoffice. I found a book about the most remarkable old buildings in town: the history behind the facade, which I gave to Admirer as she pictures and writes already so often about the specialities of our beautiful Carlshaven. It was founded in 1699, not in 1799 as I wrote before…
Winter really seems to hold now. And so we dressed well&warm for our afternoon blipadition walk. Down in town we crossed the Diemel-bridge and took the southern riverbank, mounted to the higher forestpath. And there we saw, in the middle of a snowy-green meadow, this mysterious fruittree. It looks as if it is dancing away from its grounds. Always in the opposite direction - in which the river streams-. We have often feeled amazed as we saw the still, frozen moving of its “Gestalt”, when we were walking on the other side of the river. Now we can see it from nearby and above.
We walked a long, frosty way through the lovely mediaeval town of Herstelle, with its Castle and Monastery on the heights. And then we returned alongside the Weser, a long-long wintery walk, finally back into the nearly empty town, longing for a hot tea..