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theappletree

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Hi, I'm Annie from Berlin.
I used to be a teacher at elementary school. Now I teach migrants and illiterate people.
#HumanRights #Inclusive #AltText
She/her.
Also: Daydreamer, can get lost in a landscape, a painting, a book, in history.
#Walking #Cycling #Woods #Wildflowers #Photography #Art #Painting #Poetry #Reading
Posts in English & German.
Header: A white winter landscape at the wadden sea.
Avatar: The head of a dachshund looking towards the sea, from behind.

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@theappletree@ruhr.social avatar theappletree , to random German

Same salt marsh some days ago in winter and last summer, during rehab...

Derselbe Priel in der hier sommerlich saftig grünen Salzwiese, mit dem Blick bis zum Horizont in der Ferne, wo die untergegangene Sonne einen warmen orange-roséfarbenen Schimmer am Himmel hinterlassen hat. The same tidal creek in the lush green salt marsh in summer, with a view stretching to the distant horizon, where the setting sun has left a warm orange-pink glow in the sky.

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@TishaPaints @TimKStanton Thank you Tisha!🫶🏼👋🏼 And same here with winter...

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Good Monday everyone out there!

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Roots

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Seht mal, was mir die Welt heute früh auf der Rückreise von Meer geschenkt hat... Kraniche im Sonnenaufgang! 😍
Wie schön das war, erst noch ganz müde morgens um 6 und dann das...
Ich wünsche euch auch allen einen wunderschönen Start ins Wochenende!
Have a good start to the weekend everyone!🧡💜

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Äpfel im Garten
bunte Flecken, verloren
im Herbstwind

- Apple

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Autumn colours
red, orange, yellow and gold
wherever I look

Kommt alle gut in die neue Woche!
Have a good start to the new week everyone!

🌞🍂🌻


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Am See 🍂

Ich wünsche euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, have a good start to the new week everyone!

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Spätsommertag am See...

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@theappletree@ruhr.social avatar theappletree , to Unofficial Haiku Community German

Sitting in the park
on a mild autumn day,
geese honk above us

- geese

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Sharing a peaceful autumn landscape from a few years ago. Feeling inspired by the fall foliage, and might have to paint a few of these this month 🍁🍂

Tisha Mark ©2021, Autumn Dawn, oil on gessobord, 6"x6" (Sold)

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@TishaPaints Love it!💛🍂

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October full moon
Bird silhouettes in the sky –
I shiver

- hunter's moon

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Give it two more weeks and Trump will have claimed to have ended the war between Denmark and Australia, because Vikings against Australian soldiers on big kangaroos, strong kangaroos, was a bloody mess, and Denmark took so many loses at Sydney harbour, they do not have a workforce in Denmark anymore, and the world is now running out of LEGO bricks — big beautiful bricks — strong bricks — because they just can't make them after the battle at Melbourne, where Denmark lost 7 million soldiers.

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@randahl 😂🤣

@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar MarjoleinRotsteeg , to haiku group

I'm so incredibly honoured and proud that Japanese newspaper The Mainichi has published one of my most powerful and loving haiku ever. Especially in this day and age where transpeople do not feel safe any more and are even losing their jobs and/or fleeing their country.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250725/p2g/00m/0su/040000c

+ 🌈 :lgbt: :rainbow_heart:

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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @poetry haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group Very powerful Marjolein!

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Rainy day
On the grey north sea beach
two yellow raincoats

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Incoming tide and trawler


"Schifffahrt"

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@TishaPaints@mastodon.art avatar TishaPaints , to random

I do love a moody, rainy day ☔

Tisha Mark ©2024, Storm's End, oil on linen, 20"x16"

Original is available in a maple frame:

https://tishamark.com/product/storms-end-20x16

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@TishaPaints Wow Tisha, that's gorgeous!😍

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Im Sandmeer

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I have painted again... 🖌️🎨

Salt marsh with tideway

Watercolour and wax crayon on paper, 28 x 15 cm

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Yellow Strand

"Zäune"

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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @dailyhaikuprompt @poetry haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group Hello Marjolein, nice to see you again!

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Die ICIC 2025 in Berlin ist erfolgreich zuende gegangen. Während der Konferenz haben die europäischen Partner das European Network for Transparency and Right to Information (ENTRI) gegründet. Die BfDI hat den Vorsitz des neuen Netzwerks für die kommenden drei Jahre übernommen.

Mehr Informationen: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2025/09_BfDI-Vorsitz-ENTRI.html

/ÖA

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@bfdi Toll, danke für die Info!

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Kommunikation

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@theappletree@ruhr.social avatar theappletree , to random German

Fluffy little chick
A handful of life, fragile -
the tiny heart beats

- chick

@theappletree@ruhr.social avatar theappletree , to random German

Browse through snapshots
happy, sad, melancholy
all these stories

- snapshot

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Ein leerer Tagungsraum

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@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar MarjoleinRotsteeg , to haiku group
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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @dailyhaikuprompt @poetry haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group Another beautiful philosophical Haiku, Marjolein. I have one of those hanging on the wall in my yoga corner.

Looking with fresh eyes
a tourist in my own life
what a journey

That was about two years ago?🤔 I still like it so much!🧡

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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @dailyhaikuprompt @poetry haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group Yes. We had just returned from Sabbatical, and I had started to change some things in life, like, quit the job, the wish to paint again etc. Your Haiku expressed (and, since the journey isn't over yet) still expresses the wonders of change in one's life. Thank you so much for it! Your today's Haiku beautifully shows another aspect of that unknown road. Sometimes you just have to bear with what's (not) coming along.

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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @dailyhaikuprompt @poetry haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group Oh, don't blush! Your Haikus resonate with me from time to time, which is wonderful and how poetry works, doesn't it? That's why I love the Poetry community here so much, there are wonderful thoughts and words every day. 🧡

@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar MarjoleinRotsteeg , to haiku group

patio dinner
the neighbours' cat
flirts with me

Yesterday I didn't manage to write a 'flirt' haiku, but, out of the blue, it came to me in combination with today's prompt 'patio'...

- flirt, patio






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This much river left.

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@GetCarter 😳 Where is it?

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@GetCarter Interesting, thank you!

@theappletree@ruhr.social avatar theappletree , to random German

Before I came to Ireland, I had never seen moss grow before my eyes. But here you go...

☘️💚🩶🌱

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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @dailyhaikuprompt @poetry haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group Do you grow your own food Marjolein?

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@MarjoleinRotsteeg @dailyhaikuprompt @poetry haiku@a.gup.pe icon haiku group Sounds great! I've only just started after Ireland with some very small things like herbs and berries. I don't have time, but I hope that in future I will do better.

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@niamhgarvey@mastodon.ie avatar niamhgarvey , to ActuallyAutistic group

Eeek my book is in print! So beyond thrilled with how beautiful it looks. Asked for gold letters as it's a book by people and Au is periodic symbol for gold.



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@niamhgarvey actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe icon ActuallyAutistic group Looks absolutely great, congratulations! I didn't know about the gold symbol (or probably did but forgot...), so thank you, those little things really make a difference!

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grandchild makes tea
for starters, main and pudding
mud pies

- mud





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I'm struggling to find
in this turbulent world
some peace of mind

- tranquil





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@MarjoleinRotsteeg@mastodon.nl avatar MarjoleinRotsteeg , to haiku group

'Huit! Huit! Huit!'
the blackbird's knowledge of French
stays limited

- blackbird






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