Day 50: Through the tram window

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Project 365: #50

Some snippets through the window to and from town (or as the kids calls it "the city"). This typifies most towns in Germany for me...firstly, the suburbs are always intermingled with productive agricultural fields:

 This is why I will probably be able to drive ANYWHERE else - firstly, I had to learn to drive on the other side of the road, yup, everything back to front, upside down....as it is, I am normally completely muddled up, so this was an added challenge...AND the roads are VERY narrow in most places, where you have to pull over and wait for oncoming traffic....AND there is mostly only parallel parking (of which I am VERY bad!)...AND you have to share the roads with trams!

 

There are often waterways in most cities - here the tram crosses the Mittelandkanal  at Noltemeyerbrücke. At 325,7 km long, this canal is the longest artificial waterway in Germany, with construction beginning in 1906! There is even a barge on the canal if you look carefully!

There are always beautiful churches, steeped with history. I will miss the bells ringing out on Sundays calling everyone to church.

And, of course, there is the corner store down the road....

This trip may be mundane, but there is always something beautiful to see, even if it is the new planting in the field, or a sunset over the canal, or a beautiful church spire. If we just take a moment, there will be something in our day that is uplifting and will remind us of God's beautiful handwriting!