My camera was faster!  

 24 degrees C today, 75 F

More b&w right... HERE .  

Early morning, last autumn. Smoking forbidden in all parks, 135 euros fine!  

 

Lady feeding the tame stork at the Orangerie park.  

We have a lot of them around here.  

 

Many storks in our huge Orangerie Park, near the European Parliament. More b&w here .  

Boating at the Orangerie park.  

 

A small artificial waterfall in the Orangerie park.  

 

At the stork hospital/nursery in the Orangerie park. More b&w right... here .  

Spring at the Orangerie park. More weekend reflections right... here .  

The Orangerie, our large inner-city park, our small equivalent to Hyde Park or Center Park.  

A weekend stroll through the Orangerie park. More weekend reflections here .  

2000 posts since December 2014. Champagne? No: coffee!  

One more shot from a stroll in the Orangerie park, by almost summerly weather. Well, snow expected here tonight and tomorrow, the first, and...

Enjoying the sunshine. In France, according to tradition, babies are born in a cabbage. But here in Alsace, storks bring the new born babies...