signs of Autumn in Heilbronn

it's Wednesday, September 3rd today and September means Autumn is approaching and our tree knows it :))

i was walking home from town today and i thought to photograph them with my cellphone camera to share with you what i saw along the way

leaves fall everywhere and are found everywhere

more photos when we are into the Autumn season - i truly missed Autumn and here i am going to be with them soon, yay :)))

NinaOA©

my Sunday best

it was one lovely Sunday today, the weather was so kind to us and it was even lovelier to have my Sunday best spending time only with my dear husband after going through all the hustle and bustle transition from America to Germany. today was our first Sunday weekend spent together in Heilbronn. so we thought to make another walk to downtown, have a coffee or ice-cream. all the street we walked by was pretty quiet at noon, i think the local must be spending their family quality time together inside their house

we stopped at Bar Moderna and it is a restaurant also selling assorted ice-cream. i loved my iced-coffee with triple scoops of vanilla ice-cream minus cream toppings but today i opted for Spaghetti Eis (Spaghetti ice-cream)

i think it was purely vanilla ice, they just designed it like spaghetti to make it looked different but the taste of the vanilla was strongly there. another trick to the mind. it's not cheap though!

my colorful spaghetti eis

i like the transparency look through of this empty glass of a menu left on our table - only the cut lemon left in this empty glass of our sparkling water

we then cruised drive outside Heilbronn city centre and saw huge field of vineyard. these are purple grapes and they are not for eating but for producing red wine

up-close and personal look of the red wine grapes

not far from the vineyard, there is a castle tower - perhaps, it was once lived by Rapunzel hahaa...

the huge vineyard discovery amuses me as i always wanted to photograph it in Autumn. so my dearest gentle bloggers, watch out for my autumn vineyard photography - it is only few minutes drive away from our home, i say drive because i hate walking steep uphills :))

NinaOA©

Today in Heilbronn

i took my first bus ride with my husband today. i really needed him to show me how to take a bus as i discovered so many local people don't speak English. it was indeed easy as long as i could afford to pay €2.00 one way! but i will buy a monthly bus ticket because i will be taking a bus to my future school in downtown Heilbronn.

bus stop near our apartment


on a bus

Volkshochschule, the school i will be attending soon to break the language barrier

the rear view of the school, quite pretty ay....

lady in green, there are so many of them and this one is called Barbara

poor thing! this lady in white is placed inside a wine barrel and i have no idea why she is in there for, keine ahnung (it means "no idea")

in town, there were few public entertainments going on - quite interesting to see some shows and hear happy music echos in the air

we had lunch afterward and i was pouring my last cola lite drink with one hand holding the bottle and the other my cellphone to photograph - stunt work or no? LOL.

close up view of my cola and ice, should have added vanilla ice cream and i will have ice-cream floats.. hahaa..

HAH !!!! PETRONAS !!!! who wouldn't be surprised to see PETRONAS in Heilbronn. I would and i was stunned. it is located near our home. When we walked home from town today, we walked pass this PETRONAS building. I wonder if i can work in there again? anyhow, it took us 25 minutes to walk home and yes, 20 minutes on a bus ride because of the many stops and driving around corners. I wonder if i can i re-apply PETRONAS again? Can i? now, which Datuk can i contact.... LOL

that's my share for today :)))

NinaOA©

Eclipse of the Moon in Germany

yoohooo... i'm back!!! i haven't post for quite awhile and even though this is an old story of the Eclipse that ocurred half month ago, i think it is not rusty to share yet, right... but i wanna share it anywhere...

Ludwigsburg, Germany: Sunday 18 August, 2008.

last night when we had a BBQ dinner outside a terrace of a friend’s house in Asperg, she mentioned there will be moon eclipse that will appear around 9:35pm. dang! i didn’t bring my camera with me because we were only BBQ. Neither me nor my husband had followed about the news of the upcoming eclipse.

nevertheless, we left our friend’s house at 11pm and i managed to pick the last hour eclipse, hurray...

i couldn't wait until the earth blocks the sun's light from reaching the moon, hence i only have the waxing crescent moon to share with you. i was standing outside the cold night all alone at 9° Celsius and everyone was already gone into their slumberland. i finished at 11:20pm.

Enigma of the GREEN 'Planet'

Like many others i have surfed on the internet asked the same question: what is that green planet outside our earth, near the moon? could it be a reflection? but how? could it be another planet? but which one? could it be some reflections from my camera lens? i just simply couldn't figure out this enigma.

the image below shows the green object is just behind the light tower

and within a minute of new shot, the green object moved slightly to the right

another minute later, the distance of the green object is now between the light tower and the moon. how can it moved that fast?

i am about to think it might be some kind of reflections, but just how did the green object get up there and why green? is our earth so green? but our world is covered some 72% water and should be blue, don't you think so?

here are my after 9 o'clock photographs and the green object is now closer to the moon.

HELP! i have brain constipation - what is that GREEN thing planet outside our planet earth?

just so you know, those are my most wanted-to-know photographs. when i photographed them, the green orb was not visible to the naked eyes. camera doesn’t lie and these photos are untouched, other than reduced. the moon looked like what is almost vapor but the green object is giving me brain constipation!

i can’t figure out what it was neither can i get any clear answer on the web but thanks to Joel from RI for surfing to ease this haywire mind.

my FIL said it maybe a sun. Planet SUN? now i have more curious homework to research what it really is. the tiny dotted on the photos are twinkle-twinkle little stars and perhaps other planets wandering around, i think so :)) i hope there is someone out there reading this is able to lessen this constipated mind… LOL.