THE VIEW ON MEINBREXEN

where we went in the afternoon. It had softly rained in the morning, and I had almost given up the hope to go there, to look for the many swans that I had seen there in the past.
In the west there appeared blue in the sky and in that direction Piet Hein drove the car. We went along the Weser till the Eulenkrug, a restaurant, where in the summer is a ferry that can bring you to Wehrden. Not one swan to see, so we took the same road back and stopped in Meinbrexen and there we found a little bird's paradise, a large pond with waterbirds like cormorants, coots, geese, and ducks, which kind I could not see because we had not the binoculars with us. A blue and a white heron too.
And there came one swan pair swimming.
We stood there quite a while.
From there to Beverungen to buy food things.
When we came home it was dark and when I went outside to remove the bird 's food from the branch, it was swinging, a sign that the raccoons were already there and had some taste for peanuts and the like.

My haiku:

The blue's above us
Were islands in the clouds
The geese flew around

And the proverb:

She/He that will enter into Paradise must have a good key