No fixed theme for Monochrome Madness this week. Helmeted guinea fowl seem predestined for monochrome treatment, their red dewlaps and a bit of powder blue around the head notwithstanding. Artists have long recognised this. Guinea fowls look nothing but distinctive – from the front, from … Continue reading Not pig but fowl
There once was a wooly, insolent eweWho brazenly bleated: “Hey, YOU,Shepherd! l neither want nor need This overwhelming, sweltering heat!”The shepherd stayed cool and dreamed of stew. Laughing Along with a Limerick: Heat
That’s our hometown, as seen from a relatively short distance, about 12 km to the north. We live not even 3km to the south church spire on the left but it is for the moment too far for us as a couple. Our car broke down on Saturday night and has been standing in front of a garage ever since. My sister collected us and brought us home. Where we are. I could go out on my bike (and I did go to the bakery which is open even though it is a public holiday) but my husband with his dud knee is homebound. He can manage a couple of kilometres probably more if he really needed to but would have to pay with pain in the days after. So he won’t. The centre of town is too distant for him without a vehicle.
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Water reservoir Marbach The catchment area is the river Mümling and its tributaries in the middle of the Odenwald. It was created around 1980 as a protection against flooding. But in 1986 it started catching hikers, sunseekers, and bathers, too. This was on the tail-end … Continue reading Marbach Stausee
from various churches. top left: from the chapel at Schloss Stolzenfels top right: from Wiesenbaden’s Oranier-Gedächtniskirchebottom left: from St Adolfus in Düsseldorfbottom right: from the Egyptian episkopalean Church in Heidelberg Monday Window
I’ve been doing Dale’s bidding looking for shade for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I went looking in my archive – and aye, there’s the rub. The photos in my archive are tagged in German and German doesn’t make a diffference between “shade” and “shadow” … Continue reading Shade Seekers
Mandarin ducks are a symbol for long love in a partnership in various East-asian cultures. Monday Portrait
Macro Monday
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This expressive head is on the front of a large stone vase or amphora in the palace gardens of the Schwetzinger Castle.
Weekly Prompt Weekend Challenge: Expressive
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Aino is celebrating Varikollaasit #500 – 500 weeks of colour collages. Congratulations!
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