Stonewalled

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From Pyrenees to Pennines is Margaret’s blog and she has set the theme for today: Walls. If you have some monochrome photos you’d like to share you can link directly to Margaret’s site or to Leanne’s blog: Monochrome Madness. Some walls are more famous than others. … Continue reading Stonewalled

Vegetable Snob

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A stuck-up vegetable styled itself as a Brussel sprout,
And claimed to be Belgian - but there was some doubt.
When challenged it shouted: “So you think I’m German?
Tarnation, you turnip, just call me Hermann.
I cannot deny it: YES! I am a Kraut.”

Disclaimer: For my protection I like to emphasise the featured vegetable is not the sprout in question but a bunch of kohlrabi.

Laugh Along with a Limerick: Sprout

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Two traditional inns in Frankfurt am Main and their windows

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Being an inn with a deep heritage doesn’t mean you have to have beautiful windows.

The Apfelweinwirtschaft Buchscheer (the name is an old name for pasture) is located in Frankfurt Sachsenhausen near the tram and train station Luisa. It’s a traditional inn where one is not able to order a beer, they only serve Ebbelwoi (the German kind of cider). It has a lovely outside sitting area under large trees and the inside is charmingly old but the window are … well, decidedly plain.

The inn Schmärrnche in Frankfurt Bornheim has a similiar long history to look back on. The windows are not particulary elaborate either but at least they tried with the trompe l’oeil sandstone frames.

Monday Window

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Riddle me this

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A shoot – but what is shooting here? Google wants me to believe it’s a peony – since I don’t know any better, I’ll go with it.

Monday Macro