I've had a side shot and a rear shot (20070814 The white car) of this car over the course of this blog. This year here's the front view. An MG possibly the T-type (Wiki entry here) as one of my readers* pointed out on that post from 2007.
* Richard in Zürich can be found here: Neue Zürcher Blog
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'Tis the season and they're baaack! Previous post here. I think these old-timers (as the Swiss call them) will feature at the Gassefäscht I wrote about in March. I'm planning to attend and find out more about them.
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Legend holds that Achilles carried Achillea millefolium (Schaf-Garbe) into battle to treat wounds.
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Daucus Carota (Wilde Moehre), native to Europe, is the wild form of the carrot plant. These plants can be seen all along the edges of fields and roads around Villigen.
For the next few days I'll be featuring wildflower macro shots.
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Any ideas as to what this car is? I certainly don't. Previous posts about other interesting cars:
27 May -- The red car (French Deux Chevaux)
07 July -- The green car (British MG A)
22 July -- The blue car (as yet unidentified)
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Red geraniums, white lace curtains and green shutters on Hauptstrasse.
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On Sunday I went up to Besserstein, the hill you've seen many times on this blog (click on the Besserstein label below to see some of the other posts), to take some photos. There's not a lot that's new here: the post office, the bus station and the kartoffel.ch sign were all visible in the post from 20070420. What are new are the chess board and the bench (in the lower right hand corner, look up from "kart"). Some of you might recall my "men at work" theme day post where I showed you this area and told you that I didn't know what they were working on. Well, this was part of it. There's also a new house further to the right.
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Lovingly tended by a resident on Hauptstrasse, this predominantly rose garden is visible from our kitchen window. For a look at what it looks like from the window (this is a ground level view), please visit my overflow site. I didn't mention it yesterday, but yesterday's photo was taken from our guestroom, which also serves as my work room. I've posted many photos that were taken from that window.
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About twice a year there's a village meeting. One of the items under discussion and up for voting is approval of citizenship of foreign residents (Ausländer, like me). In Switzerland, things are organized at a very local level, and for the most part, foreigners become citizens through the community in which they live. Exceptions include citizenship through marriage, in which case the community that confers citizenship would most likely be the community of the spouse rather than the community in which the couple might reside in at the time of application. Switzerland doesn't grant citizenship jus soli, so there are many individuals who, although they were born here, have to meet certain requirements (of residency, etc) and then apply for citizenship if they so desire. These laws are under frequent revision and also vary from locality to locality, so things are always changing as they are in many countries around the world.
The Village Council recommended several individuals for approval at yesterday's meeting. I hope it went well for them -- I'll find out in the monthly village newsletter.
Addendum 1 Jun: The newsletter arrived today and all the people applying for citizenship were approved.
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Several days ago, Richard in Zürich posted a photo of a white dog which made me think immediately of this goat. I've put a zoomed out view from a different perspective on the overflow site. I think there the similarity is stronger. The white goat: the big picture.
Did you notice the frog at the base of the tree? It was very bright when I took this, and I didn't see him until I looked at the shot on the computer.
The house this garden belongs to is in Stilli, and you'd pass it if you walked along Hauptstrasse away from Villigen. There's a bus top next door so the bus slows down here. I've been practicing taking shots from the moving bus. The photo on the overflow site is from that group.
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The white one is, of course, a daisy.
The blue one appears to be creeping veronica or slender speedwell (Veronica filiformis). The plant is originally from Turkey and the Caucasus, and now can be found all over Europe. It was introduced to the US in the 1930s.
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