Fresh, white mining waste and older material form the huge dump of a potassium mine in the Rhön hills, some 130 kms (78 mls) east of Frankfurt, April 20, situated right on the former border between what was then West and East Germany. Forests and canola fields are in the foreground.
Canola is blooming about three weeks earlier than last year among grain fields, forests, villages, hills and wind turbines in this view taken from the northeastern edge of Frankfurt, April 14.
(Canon 5d III, EF 100-400, f11, 1/320 sec., ISO 160)
An old cherry tree and a deerstand behind the yellow of a canola field in bloom at Okarben, just north of Frankfurt, April 7.
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