VIEW UPON THE HERSTELLE ABBEY

A house of the benedictine nuns, it lies upon a hill and I  had never seen it from above. I mean we walked on a still higher hill and I took with much pleasure a photo.
One can see it also from the other side of the Weser but then I had never been satisfied with a picture from there.
The abbey was founded in 1899. The nuns give hospitality and they also work in handycrafts. They run a shop, with books, candles and much more.
We had parked the car near the Weser and walked uphill.. Along the forest path we saw fields of Oxalis acetosella , a lovely sight. They appear a bit later than the Anemone nemorosa, which I showed here some days ago. The flowers of the Oxalis flowers are smaller and the leaves differ a lot.
At the height of the hill the fields stretch as far as the eye can see.
We rested for a while and then continued our path, along the fields.
At a certain point we left our known path and hoped that the one we followed now would bring us in the valley again.
When the path ended, we could not descend there and walked along a large field that did not seem to end, we kept our eyes open to find something that looked like a path, even when it was a bit overgrown. This never happened and in the end we wandered down the hill, slowly and with trouble, but we managed somhow to reach the Jewish cemetry, that is situated outside Herstelle and there we were on known ground again. On our walk back we entered a little street in Herstelle that was so hidden that we never had set foot in it. A bit of dolls houses, with little garden at the front side. Their gardens at the backside we have seen so many times because they end along the Weser.
Tired, yes I was really tired and was glad to be home again. The weather had changed all day long, cold, warm, wind, no wind. When we reached home it started to rain, only for a short time. Good for the plants.

My haiku:

Humbly like the white
Flowers they wear their habits
Nuns of Herstelle

And the proverb:

Hab or nab.

(= get or loose, hit or miss, at random)

1542  Udall tr. Erasm. Apoph.