Rhine Symphony: Spring dance with Beethoven

Today is spring weather, so I decide to walk along the Rhine.

Ludwig van Beethoven crosses my mind: Did he also like to walk alone to think, perhaps to compose in his head? I think of my first attempts to draw 'sound carpets', see the ripples on the current high water and the elongated silhouettes of the trees on the ground - all patterns and repetitions - like a carpet or a symphony.

I see lines/drawings in the waves, did Beethoven 'see music' in them?

I feel the wind, gently sway my body to it, leaving an invisible trace of movement (I love to dance) - would he have sensed a melody in it? I hear the water lapping against the shore, regularly - rhythm symphony? The sky is so blue over the Siebengebirge, I just have to take a photo.

On the way back, I notice a station of the 'BTHVN Story' for the first time, No. 6 'Rheinufer' with an old illustration of the Siebengebirge. I quote a part of it: From Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote to his Bonn friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler in 1801:

'My homeland, the beautiful area where I first saw the light of the world, is always so beautiful and clear before my eyes, as when I left you. In short, I will consider the time as one of the happiest events of my life, when I can see you again and greet Father Rhine.'