Tegenaria domestica

Tegenaria domestica (female))

It’s officially winter now (yes, I’m late, as always) and the house spiders look for the warm and cozy and slightly humid places. The toilet might have been a good idea at first sight but it is not heated very well, just so much that the pipes don’t freeze. Yes, all pipes, thank you.

Sooo, this little girl (bit unsure, have not seen the underbelly but the lack of swollennes in the pedipalps hints in the direction of female) dropped herself into the little sink aside of the larger one and let me have a chance to do my good deed of the day and help her out of her misery. There you can see her waving good-bye before entering the underworld of the 70’s-green basin with all of that inviting nooks and crannies.

Ausgeapert

Rubble in the Snow

The word apern is the verb used for the thawing of snow in the Upper-German dialects (e.g.: Swiss-german, Austrian, etc.); ausgeapert names the state of something formerly covered by snow like the stones in the picture above or the body of a mountain climber in spring.

Snow: Again—Chaos: Ditto

A little bit of snow

Yes, that little! It caused a nearly full standstill on the streets. 660 km of traffic jam in an area about the size of the state of New Jersey (USA) and only a slightly higher population.

They blamed the weather report, of course, because they were not able to predict the area of snowfall down to the single kilometer in a considerably chaotic atmosphere with several high and low pressure areas lying in horizontal and vertical juxtaposition— it was quite some mess up there.

My…

First Snow in Winter without the Snow

Winter without Snow

That’s how it looks after all of that precious crystallised water changed its condition of aggregation to something more viscous. Looks a bit dirty now, does it not?
Changed the projection of the panorama to “General Panini” and the aspect ratio to 1:3 which seems to be the common aspect ratio of print shops (as if somebody wants to print that). Because the single pictures were of obviously highly differing quality (if somebody has a spare camera that could be called at least “decent”: I would be more than happy to help you freeing some of your highly valued storage room) no further changes were made to the picture; it is the raw thing out of a fully automated Hugin run.

First Snow in Winter

A panorama from the window in the first floor. It has a little “hiccup” at the right side, clearly visible at the middle of the roof ridge of the barn (an indoor riding hall). I saw it too late, sorry.
The original picture behind this thumbnail is quite large: 9287×2158 pixel and 5.705 Mb. That might be too much for a weaker computer and/or patience.

First Snow in Winter