Looking down a lane of blooming cherry trees in a park, the canopy turns the horizon pink and the ground a shadow mosaic.

Thursday, Dortmund.

A bay mare is dozing in the sunshine, her legs tucked under, head resting in the sand.

She enjoys her naps more than anyone I know. She literally smiles in her sleep.
#horses #eqsky #sleep #sweetdreams

Fantastic

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

Paderborn dabei🙂

A winding path of blooming spring bulb flowers meanders through a green park lawn. Paderwiesen, Paderborn.

Faerie trails at the local park
#flowers #spring #landscaping #urbantrails #eastcoastkin

View of a backlit mossy forest floor from atop a bay mare. She is wearing a nose net and probably eyeliner because she is a sensitive diva. The evergreen treetrunks are thinly distributed and casting long shadows.

#forestfriday #eqsky #horse #springlight

The greenery returns.

View over Paderborn valley from Dahler tulip fields, multiple windmills dot the vivid sunset horizon.

#scape #eastcoastkin

Portrait of a bay horse with a very alert expression facing the viewer, his legs and parts of his body dissolve patchwise into the cerulean background.

The horse year begins
"Eros" - Oil on Canvas
#horse #yearofthehorse #eqsky #painting #oilpainting #traditionalmediums #animalarttuesday #cyantue #eastcoastkin

🎩⚘️

Close up of two Eurasian cranes, strongly backlit, the closer one looking back at the viewer, the rear crane in profile, background verdant grass and trees.

#birdoftheday #longnecks #photo #cranes #eastcoastkin

A tree lined path, everything coated in snow, nearly monochromatic.

#Scape to shut the world off a little.
#winter #snow #urbantrails #eastcoastkin

Close up photo of an apple with a codling moth larvae emerging out the skin

photo of a derpy bald eagle, annoyed at the down feather stuck to his nostril

#Alphabetchallenge #Bonusdyptich #Raptors #forbiddenfruit

„Nicht Hitler,Göring, Goebbels, Himmler und wie sie alle hießen, haben mich verschleppt und geschlagen.
Nein, es waren der Schuster, der Nachbar, der Milchmann.
Sie haben eine Uniform bekommen, eine Binde und eine Haube-und dann waren sie die Herrenrasse."
Karl Stojka #NieWiederlstJetzt

Shoah (1/2) - Die ganze Doku | ARTE Elf Jahre reiste Claude Lanzmann durch Europa und sprach mit Zeitzeugen des Holocaust - Opfern und Tätern. Entstanden ist ein eindringlicher Dokumentarfilm (1985), der bis heute als wichtigste Auseina...

Tomorrow is #Holocaust Rememberance day. Arte TV @artede.bsky.social @artefr.bsky.social has the #Shoah documentaion by #ClaudeLanzmann programmed again (on until May 18th 2026). Lanzmann would have been 100 years old in 2025.
2/2

www.arte.tv/de/videos/01...

Cold horses, pt 2.
#snow #winter #horses #forest #eqsky #january #quiet

Thank you, you as well 🌞❄️

Three blue horses gallop from left to right across a pale textured canvas. Their legs and bodies seem to dissolve into the background.

I am struggling to stay positive in the shades of the world. Here are some cold horses.
"Troika" - oil on canvas
#art #painting #oilpainting #januarty2026 #cold #traditionalmediums #horses #eqsky #eastcoastkin

You are very welcome. So sorry for your loss. Seeing how people from all over have posted robins for the memory of a total stranger is a much needed glimmering of humanity. I wish you all the strength.

Pastel portrait of a robin, wings slightly open, torso to viewer, head tilted skyward in profile, floating upward.

Ascent, 1st iteration - pastel

#ForJanet #Winterrobin #birds #traditionalmediums #pastel #wherewego

View from the 2nd story window of Schloss Fürstenberg, now a porcelain museum, showing the river Weser snaking through a valley green despite frigid temps, in the distance the sun sets over the purple hills of the Solling.

The view was alright
#throughtheframe #palacesandgardens #windows #landscape #photography #eastcoastkin

That is lovely

Photo of the bank of a foggy, icy pond, the fog obscures the treelined opposite shore. A mute swan, back to the viewer, but head swiveled around to appraise, orange bill the only bright color point, is framed by bare winter foliage. Snow melts in the foreground revealing gravel and moss.

The ice prince, lording over his kingdom.
#swanday #stunday #birds #swans #photo #urbantrails #eastcoastkin

Photo of a a fog and ice covered pond, taken through a snowy tree line. Sunlight is breaking through a dark cloud front directly at the viewer, giving the scene a primordial glow.

Big Thaw.
#scape #landscape #january #winterscene #urbantrails #eastcoastkin

Black and white photo of a Weser Renaissance facade building containing an old pub in Hameln. The sun is breaking through the clouds, the cobblestone street gleams, silhouettes of pedestrians in the distance.

Hameln, this afternoon.
#urbangaze #classicmono #streetphotography #januarylight #urbantrails #eastcoastkin

Duck, Death, and the Tulip – an uncommonly tender illustrated meditation on the cycle of life www.themarginalian.org/2016/05/04/d...

A bay and brown Harris hawk with an Egyptian goose in her talons, which she has just successfully caught. The hawk is facing right but looking left over her shoulder and sitting on a grassy field.

My girl nabbed a Nilgans today! Her older half-sis was with us and together they got 6 crows and the Nilgans. 📯🦅
We were invited by the hunters to this new (for us) area because they want to protect hares, Kiebitze, Rebhühner and other small birds/animals from the crows & magpies.

What a good girl! We see a lot of these in Ostwestfalen. I try to teach my horses I have in training to chase them. Greetings from a fellow expat.

Somewhat wide angle view from below of a stand of mixed hardwoods and evergreens, trunks all dusted in snow, in the pink toned late afternoon January light.

#scape #forestfriday #trees #winter

I love these so much.