I can't get enough of these colours!
Spring and summer over here were rainy, stormy and too cold. But this autumn pays back with lots of sun, light and barely rain. Golden!
Just a few impressions of the last glorious summer days 2016 in Ulm and its vicinity.
Golden October in southern Germany! This year, the most arid year in meteorological history, it seems the colours of the autumn leafs are more vivid and motley than in previous years. Although their discoloration started two weeks earlier than usual.
You call it "Indian summer", we call it (in German) "Altweibersommer": old crone's summer. Why that?
Over here, in warm and sunny autumn days, newly hatched tiny spiders spin a long silk that carries them through the air. When these silk filaments shimmer in the sunlight, they look like old women's long light hair. That's where the name comes from.
Today, mid October, we had one of those rare old crone's summer days - and took advantage of it: campfire, roast chestnuts and potatoes, boating.
