The cow that's first in the meadow licks up all the dew. (French proverb)
Located north of Strasbourg, not far from Haguenau, these charming villages with their whitewashed half-timbered houses offer an authentic immersion in traditional Northern Alsace.
Mushrooms on a tree trunk can be a sign of its weakening and are often a harbinger of its imminent death.
The sun set tonight in the clouds. Tomorrow will come the storm, and the evening, and the night; Then dawn, and its clarity of obstructed vapors.... Excerpt from "Soleils couchants", poem VI, Les Feuilles d'automne (1831), Victor Hugo
"Water, you have no taste, no color, no aroma, you cannot be defined, you are tasted, without knowing you. You are not necessary to life: you are life." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What one must seek and find is the serene sweetness of an unshakeable peace. (The Lamp of Wisdom, 1986, Alexandra David-Neel)