As I get some kind of shape I'm able to lift my eyes when running and watch my surroundings. Today, when running my extened play to Kandern, I passed some notable points of interest. In no particular order there is
The birthplace of Johann August Sutter, the so called "Kaiser von Kalifornien". Nice old house but you can easily miss the sign.
The Black Forest Academy, a christian school as I just learned. Funny to name a place like this in a region that is so much reigned by a nearly uncomprehensible dialect (at least for non-locals, local being people living in a 50k radius).
A shrub nursery (Staudengärtnerei) that looks a bit sad in winter with a nearly rotten hut but is surely one of the most romantic places when everything is blossoming.
Besides that, the air started to smell like spring, something I first noticed on my Friday run in Darmstadt. There were, though, some whisks of smoke as the remnants of the saturday night's Scheibenfeuer were still burning. I refrain from trying to write down the proper dialect name here - it varies from village to village anyway.
The view from the hills above the Kandertal was stunning. A pasture that wakes up from winter but still snowy hills as a back setting. Seeing villages close by, France and Basel with its never sleeping chimneys. The Vogesen. It's a privileged region.
Posted by tilman.haerdle at March 1, 2009 4:49 PM