Today I wandered through the Volksgarten/Suedpark (g), one of the finest parks in the world. Parts of it are like an English garden, with gentle knolls and copses of beech, maple, caucasian wingnut, and willow. The southern wing of the park was completely redesigned for the 1987 National Gardening Exhibition (g) and features a complex system of Japanese-inspired lotus-bedecked koi ponds connected by wooden walkways. The park is teeming with gray herons, cormorants, swans, geese, ducks, and coots.
Coots and moorhens are my favorites, because they work so damn hard. To give them a break, I threw an overripe apples to the coots. They promptly went to work:
The best thing about coots is their feet!
Posted by: cohu | August 30, 2010 at 11:31 PM
There is a tree called "caucasian wingnut"? We certainly have enough of the human variety in the United States right now!
Posted by: Rebecca | August 30, 2010 at 01:09 AM