The picture taken by one of our guests of the sign advertising the nature reserve area of the glacier basin where our neighbouring village of Prag is situated, will interest some of you. It shows some of the rarer flora and fauna to be found here and I can give the following translation:
Fluegelginster - Arrow broom Chamaespartium sagittale
Alte Schwarzwaldhauser - Old Black Forest houses
Zippammer - Rock bunting (Emberiza cia)
Arnika - Mountain Arnica or Leopard's Bane or Wolf's Bane (Arnica montana)
Warzenbisser - Wart-biter cricket (Decticus verrucivorus)
Auerhahn - Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)
Hinterwaelder Kuh - Our local 'Hinterwalder' breed of cows
Wasseramsel - Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
Schwarzspeckt - Black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
Weidbuche - lit 'Pastureland beech' -A variety of the European or Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica) which has taken on this particular form through being grazed by cattle when a young tree.
Wachtelweizen-Scheckenfalter - Heath Fritillary butterfly (Melitaea athelia)
Geflecktes Knabenkraut - Heath spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata)This weekend we have a Sportsreach group of young ladies with us who during their five days here are playing football against three different local ladies' teams. They use the opportunity to talk about their faith and to share the Gospels Please pray that their witness may prove to be part of God's plan for a spiritual awakening in our upper Wiesental. We had a extremely encouraging worship service together this Sunday morning.
