Unlimited with a resident parking permit - Or: Sleeping Beauty drives an Opel
It's been a while since I photographed this permanently parked car in the Moselle valley. Nevertheless, I still occasionally wonder how the white Opel Rekord found its way into the hedge. Simple forgetting is out of the question, as the L47 runs barely a meter away from his passenger door.
It is a beautiful still life with a morbid romanticism, the overgrown C-Record in front of the abandoned country house. Only the modern construction fence disturbs the idyll a little - and it foreshadows bad things to come. The rusty Opel may have long since been razed to the ground along with the venerable brick building.
Or perhaps someone erected the fence to prevent vandals from attacking the house and car. After all, neither looks completely irredeemable. So let's just hope for the best for the two of them. Perhaps they are still there today - or have even been brought back to life.
