In our part of Germany the weather is throwing real tantrums this summer. There are occasional summer days with bright sunshine, blue sky and some heat. But the next day you might need socks and a hoody again. Or the sky is dark grey and the air is sticky. All this can also happen within one day.
Luckily the days I'm travelling and enjoying outdoor festivals have been fine so far. Last Saturday I had planned to go to a medieval festival around some castle ruins where I haven't been before. But then I had to work all day. (Another story) This was quite lucky as the festival had to be cancelled for that day due to the storm Zeljko blowing over northern Germany.
Many other events were cancelled like open air cinema at the park in town and camping grounds were cleared. Cycling home after work was difficult and slow - still I arrived before the storm hit our village - just in time. We had visitors and instead of having a cosy evening in the garden, we had comfortable hours sitting in our kitchen, eating, drinking and talking.
On Sunday I showed our visitors my favorite park - and there we saw the wounds the storm has left behind:
Autumn storms are the rule - but then the trees don't have strong leaves to get ripped of. At least the dwarfs had lived through the storm or were already rescued by the time we passed by.
Right now the sky is blue and the sun is out, but still it looks like wearing warm jumpers outside.....
