
NBA player Dirk Nowitzki behind a Unicef poster in Wörth, about 70 kms (42 mls) east of Frankfurt, Sep.8, after he was appointed Unicef Ambassador.

NBA player Dirk Nowitzki behind a Unicef poster in Wörth, about 70 kms (42 mls) east of Frankfurt, Sep.8, after he was appointed Unicef Ambassador.

The sun shines behind a metal figure dipicting Saint Hildegard of Bingen on the roof ridge of the Disibodenberg museum on the former site of a monastery in the Palatinate Forest near Bad Kreuznach, some 100 kms (60 mls) west of Frankfurt, Sep.6. Taken through the leaves of a chestnut tree. Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine abbess and visionary, lived here in the 12th century. She probably was the most famous woman in Germany in the middle ages.

A foxglove (digitalis purpurea) in the early morning light at the Taunus mountains, just north of Frankfurt, Sep.6.