Spring time in the city

The city is looking beautiful with all the trees in bright spring green.

The Rathaus

cars and bicycles

Colombi Schlosspark is looking really pretty with all the spring bulbs blooming

Black Forest Cup and Fruit Jogurt Cup at the Ice Cream parlour on the Rathausplatz is a must after a hard days shopping!

Dappled shade in the park behindthe church

Floral detail on the wroght iron fence surrounding the churchyard

The lawn around the church is full of buttercups and tiny white 'Gänseblumchen', little miniture daisies.

A wreath of sandstone roses adorn an old tombstone in the churchyard

I was delighted to see Bluebells growing among a tangle of weeds and ivy on an old overgrown grave.

Real Bluebells, although common in much of Britain and Ireland,  are rare in the rest of Europe and absent from the rest of the world. The populations in the UK represent about 30% of the global population. The species has greatly declined over the past 50 years and is globally threatened.

Beautiful old Gothic tombstones covered in moss

This lady buried beneath this pretty tombstone, Emma, was born in 1858 and died in 1878.