As we do most Sunday afternoons these days, we headed down today to see the progress on our future condo building: some of the forms are up for the side walls of the parking garage now:
More interesting than the construction progress though, was appreciating how spectacular our lovely future view is in peak fall foliage season (he colors were much more intense in person--as much so as the closer up photos to follow, my little point and shoot dulls them from a distance):
We walked around the neighborhood a bit and just enjoyed the beauty of the season:
On the way home, we decided to stop downtown Heidelberg to "leaf peep" some more and get more photos. Autumn is my favourite season, and you cannot beat peak foliage time in a place like the Neckar Valley.
Again, sadly, photos from a bit of distance show up faded, but the real life colors were just as vibrant as could be:
Standing on the alte Brucke, with only a couple of dozen of tourists around me, I couldn't help but think that the 100s of international tourist swarming the same area in mid and late September, adding in a stop here in Heidelberg on a trip to Oktoberfest had missed out on a much more magical time.
Personally, I recommend that if you ever have the chance to travel to Germany in the fall--skip the huge beer festival (it is fun, but so are dozens of little ones and there is always one to be found if you try) and go a few weeks later and enjoy the natural beauty in all its glory instead.
---Hadle
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