HOW NICE IT IS

to have visitors, especially when it is my younger sister and her partner who came driving from Schwalefeld in Sauerland this morning. Drinking coffee we catched up, lots to tell each other of course. Then we walked into the valley to the Carolinum, showing them our little exhibition and along the Weser back and up for lunch.
I did not see the swan pair, neither did I see them yesterday, Eastern holiday for them?
But the ducks were all there. One of them became my blip, standing upon one leg, head tucked in, keeping an eye on me.
The camping along the river jam-packed with caravans and campers, despite the snow and the cold. The cold could be worse if there had blown a strong wind, but there wasn't any.
After lunch we walked into the forest and yes we did see three deer crossing our path. They were at a far distance.
At one moment we saw the clouds becoming darker and again it started snowing, not for very long. The snow keeps coming and going. One minute we felt how it is when the sun shines. It feels divine!
My sister knows so much and for such a long time already everything about birds. Hearing in the forest the dark sound of a bird she tells us it is a raven, she had seen him or her flying from one tree to another.

My haiku:

The sun goes under
Again and the memory
Will stay for a long time

And the proverb from Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

Childhood is the sleep of reason.