Wolves Wild

The wall of padlocks on the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge across the Rhine at Cologne. No further comment.

Trier, on the Mosel in Germany, was founded by the Romans and was at one stage the western capital of the Roman Empire. During this period buildings of an appropriate magnificence were built, with remains still extant today.

Here the bases of the walls of one of the three huge public baths, covered in moss and other low vegetation.

The Kaiser Wilhelm Bruecke, Cologne, carries the main railway line across the Rhine, alongside a path which gets heaving with pedestrians, joggers, and cyclists and scooters being ridden far too fast. The fence separating the trains is covered in several tens of tons of padlocks declaring the eternal love: likely many of the relationships are now history.

Record shots were the best I could manage on the camera I had with me, but perched on a warning triangle for the busy river traffic was a shag, blithely ignoring the busy traffic on the bridge a few yards away as it preened.

Another set of pictures from early June. Orange tip butterflies on on their preferred food plant, Jack by the hedge.

Getting outside now, but two crutches means I still can’t manage a camera. So some more photos from before my knee was operated on.

For today, coot chicks venturing out swimming further further from the nest on West Park lake – early in June.

A clump of lady’s smock flowering: a wild flower in the wild flower meadow which is the present role of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.