
Smoke rises from a cigarette that was carelessly discarded in a plant tub near Geiselwind in northern Bavaria, March 12.

Smoke rises from a cigarette that was carelessly discarded in a plant tub near Geiselwind in northern Bavaria, March 12.

A starling cleans its plumage on a tree in Friedrichsdorf, just outside Frankfurt, March 11, with the moon in the background.

An acrobat rides his motorcycle hands-free almost 90 degrees perpendicular to the ground on an ancient board track while holding a guitar during a promotional event for a guitar maker (actually, Gibson) at the music fair in Frankfurt, March 11.

Two friends lean against each other on the banks of river Main in Frankfurt on a bright, warm and sunny day, March 9.

Mirianne Uffenbrink holds a makeshift gallows with a hanged stork during a protest by widwives and many mothers and families on International Women’s Day in Frankfurt, March 8. Midwives, still being a regular feature of childbirth in Germany, are facing unacceptably high liability insurance premiums and low wages. Many were already driven out of the baby-delivering business.