Showing posts with label Zerf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zerf. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2011

Imagine How It Was - Zerf/Oberzerf

These photos are from Zerf and Oberzerf and were taken from 2001 to 2004.  None of us can step back in time to see the villages and the fields exactly as they were in the first half of the 19th century - except with our imaginations.  But today Mother Earth still produces the trees and grasses, insects and birds that flourished in the earlier times as well as the streams that helped sustain them.


Oberzef in spring
Fishing in the Mühlenbach
The old mill stone of Zerf
Zerf Pasture

Autumn in the  Zerf Hochwald

Monday, March 21, 2011

Autumn along the Saar River

Driving from Oberzerf to Serrig on a lovely October day, we stopped to tramp along a path with an especially beautiful view of the Saar River.   It is said that the Crown Prince of Prussia visited the area and became a "Rhineland Romantic."  Perhaps he saw one of these views! 


An old path beside the modern highway

The beautiful Saar River on one side of the road; the rock embankment on the other


Autumn glimpses of the Saar

Seeing the river through wild seeds and berries

Golden Autumn along the Saar River

Wild Beauty

Bends in he Saar River near a quiet village