
A gray heron flies at low altitude over river Lahn in Runkel, some 70 kms (42 mls) northwest of Frankfurt, April 24.

A gray heron flies at low altitude over river Lahn in Runkel, some 70 kms (42 mls) northwest of Frankfurt, April 24.

The former living room of an abandoned farm house in the village of Leibolz in the Rhön hills, April 21, a sign of ongoing depopulation of rural areas in the northern part of the federal state of Hessen.

Two dandelion seeds wait for being carried away by the wind on a meadow in the Rhön hills, April 21.

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.

Rain drifts past a barn on a field in the Rhön hills, east of Frankfurt, April 19.

The white dump of a nearby potassium mine behind a field with blooming dandelions in the Rhön hills, some 130 kms (78 mls) east of Frankfurt, April 18.

Hanover’s soccer player Didier Ya Konan, right, tests the tear strength of modern fabric while jubilating with teammate Lars Stindl, who scored the second goal of the match. Hanover eventually won 3-2 against Frankfurt in a German first division match, April 17.

Supporters of Eintracht Frankfurt, the city’s first division soccer club, hold up their scarves while chanting their club’s anthem prior to a match aganist Hanover, April 17. Frankfurt lost 2-3, by the way.

A duck and its refelction in a pond at Frankfurt’s central (and tiny) Bethmann Park, April 16.
Rotated 90 degrees – in case you didn’t notice :-).

A faded pedestrian warning sign in front of a gray sky in Frankfurt, April 15.