THE EARLY MORNING MIST

was severe but since we suspected blue behind it, we drove to Herstelle to start a walk into the Hersteller Wald. On the map I had seen that there was at the outskirts of Herstelle an old jewish cemetry, we followed a path first along houses and then we went along a brook and there it was. On the stones we could see that the oldest graves dated from the nineteenth century. They were seated on a slope, some of the stones did not stand upright any longer, the place looked rather neglected, but everywhere grew lovely wood flowers.
We took the same path back and found our path first to the 'Red Mountain" and from there the path through the forest. Trees, trees, trees all around us.
It started slightly to rain but it stopped a moment later. We did not see any forest animals, only birds sang their sweet song. No humans either.
We returned and on our way back we found a scenic view that on a earlier walk in vain we had searched. A view of the Weser towards Beverungen and in the other direction to Herstelle.
Our walk had been longer than we had planned, a trip of four hours, but somehow I had not felt my tiredness. Only afterwards I did.
The picture shows a big tree with a cross that we saw at the beginning of our walk.

My haiku:

Some trees lean upon
Others, they resist to resign
Could we learn from them?

And the proverb:

To sing (one's) nunc dimittis.

(= to declare glad acceptance of release from some employment The first words of the Song of Simeon in Luke ii, 29)

1642 in Nethersole, Consid. upon Affairs and in 1859 Charles Darwin, Life & Letters: I am now contented, and can sing my 'nunc dimittis'.