Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

so that during the week there’s no chance to go out much anyway. But on the weekend....well, what else can you do.

go out, just on foot,
for the child, running is the order of the day

go outside, just on foot,
for the child, running is the order of the day

Did you read my post? When I go out on foot, I meet hundreds of people in the park. When I drive out, at least I meet fewer in the forest than that.

Winniefred, there is nothing wrong with going out on the weekend as a city dweller. The question is why one has to go to the well-known hotspots. There are dozens of other, also beautiful and fun options, and sledding is not necessarily required to experience something outdoors. If you live in an area without snow, then you have to organize your leisure time without snow. That is possible too.

The childcare situation is terrible for working parents – I don’t envy anyone, really. But that doesn’t give anyone a free pass to meet with a thousand others at Spitzingsee on the weekend to go ice skating or sledding.

Again some numbers: in the district of Miesbach, 29 accident victims were admitted to the hospital on 6.1., which is already struggling under Corona and doesn’t know how it will manage the care of the fully occupied intensive care unit. Broken bones caused by ski tourers, sledders, and ice skaters are not helpful.

We reserve the right to see snow sometimes, at least a few times a year. Normally we go to the mountains for that 1-2 days a year, this year we are not doing that, as mentioned, I certainly don’t belong to those who need to be admonished. But to say: city dwellers can just stay in their small apartments with the gray slush for a few months I find too short-sighted. We have a house with a garden, we live on the outskirts of the city, we have a park etc. right in front of us, many are not so lucky. As I said, I also don’t understand why one then has to go to the tourist hotspots, but no one can expect families to sit at home for months.

By the way, I have a day off today, in case anyone is wondering^^. I work in the medical field and I also want to do something different with my kids on the weekend than just walk laps in the heavily crowded park.

And otherwise, I won’t comment further on this, after all, this is a garden thread.

I also love the sea and miss swimming in saltwater. And that, even though I'm not a child...

I wasn't at the sea last year, and I don't know how it looks this year. If things go badly, saltwater won't happen again - the quarry lake remains. Not so nice, but that's how it is.

Sometimes I wonder how people survived in the past - often no car, vacation was when you didn't have to work and could take care of your vegetable garden. And they SURVIVED! Some were even SATISFIED! You wouldn't believe it...

Please forgive me the cynicism, I do understand that sometimes you feel trapped and that it's not nice when you can't go skiing, sledding, swimming in the sea, mountain climbing, or whatever else. But you survive that! Absolutely!!! What you cannot say 100% about a Corona infection.

And one more thing, from Loriot - this has been on my mind more and more lately: "In crisis times, intelligent people look for solutions, idiots look for someone to blame." You can really let that sink in...

So, what has the general public been doing for months? Driving one 'guilty' scapegoat after another out of town. First it was the lateral thinkers, then the mulled wine drinkers, now it's people who want to get some fresh air with their children. Simply accepting that you can't control everything, making less fuss, and waiting for spring is what's called for. Why does everyone go to the hotspots? Well, those are the ones people know. I go to less known areas in the Odenwald instead of the Königsstuhl. Even now, you hardly meet anyone there, maybe a few locals with dogs. But I do that all year round, even without Corona. I know my way around the forest. The problem is that even people who normally spend their free time washing cars, playing in indoor playgrounds, having coffee parties at Aunt Erna's, etc., now also have to go to nature out of necessity. They just don't know their way around, they enter something like 'excursion destination blablabla' into Google or just remember something from childhood. Then everyone ends up at the same parking lots. But even that is not a real problem. There is enough space to sidestep each other in the fresh air, even in a full parking lot; no one catches anything just passing by. Instead of throwing around blame and accusations, the hikers should simply be distributed in an orderly way. Often, there is the next nice spot a few kilometers away. You just assign a few wardens, put up proper signs, and close off areas if it gets too crowded. But this does not require comments like 'irresponsible recklessness' and other rubbish. It is the right of already heavily restricted people to drive to a nice spot of their choice. No nursing home resident dies because people are stuck in traffic somewhere in the Black Forest; that has other causes. By now, all sense is missing and there is only blind activism without even pursuing the original goal of minimizing infections. There are desperate bans and accusations, but nothing helps.