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.!.! | The red fruit of the holly are highly toxic. |
Winter is back! During last night half the nation spellbound staring at the television screen, to hear how Gottschalk "Wetten, dass .." his departure from announced quietly trickled out of the snow, but so rich that just before midnight on our outdoor test car parked white
an equally white, had put nearly four inches thick blanket. After I had swept away this morning today and shoveled the driveway, we started with the little electric scooter in the direction Bokelberg. These are part of an elongated mountain range that forms the watershed between the Elbe and Weser. All the rivers flow north of this ridge in the same, all south of the Weser.
Because this time we are in our winter hike from the north-eastern want to start page of Bokelberg, we have to cross up to 125 meters for North German standards quite remarkable range of hills at first. This meant a journey of around 25 kilometers.
Fyffes and Foxy can not wait to rage at last through the snowy woods. The whole journey buzzing with excitement about her in the back seat where we have spread a large blanket to prevent spread to the dark sitting of the test car like hundreds of white dog hair.
Bokeler The mountains have a diverse mixed forest inventory. The northeastern part,
old enclosure called, is designated as a natural forest reserve. This Area is no longer farmed. The forest remains left to its natural development. Since dead wood is not removed, red signs warning of falling branches. We stay on top of those surprises, fortunately spared.
A piece west of the natural forest reserve on the left side of the road I discover several palm trees of the genus Ilex
. The European holly (ilex aquifolium ) is the only one in Central Europe vorkommemde representative of the predominantly in the tropics and subtropics family of holly plants. With its red berries, which incidentally are highly toxic (20 to 30 berries apply to adults as a deadly Dose in children less accordingly), provides this in our forests, exotic-looking, evergreen large shrub or small tree now in the winter before the snow backdrop of particularly attractive.
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| found object in the forest: snowed tube TV. |
A few miles further we make a discovery of a very different kind: the middle of the forest is covered with a snow cover, a large tube TV with stereo speakers. It acts on its site so bizarre that you could almost get the idea that it was a künslerische installation.
"A television with tubes in the woods where the deer tubes, " kalauert Marion. I am amazed. What other way but some people take to dispose of their electronic products. probably would have no one in the era of the flat screen TV this fossil more, more not even paid.
with our boots, we plow through the wet and heavy snow. noted after two and a half hours and 15 miles we traveled the effort gradually in the calves. How good it is on the way back down hill. On the way back to give the Dog no sound from him. They are probably plenty of skiing in deep snow exhausted. the way we buy in an ancient and cozy little bakery Café attached in
Hankensbüttel a couple of rolls and look forward to a second breakfast at home on the warm stove. But before I allow myself two pieces of dark chocolate, precious, for I am, as you know, on
chocolate diet .
tomorrow!
