What Oscar said
“I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde
FOWC with Fandango: Temptation
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Quaint drainpipes (and windows)
A red drainpipe, shutters with hearts – all that missing is a bit of TLC. Similarly lacking in TLC but just the name “storks’ corner” is enough to include this window in this post. This one is specifically for PR. It’s the window (and drainpipe) … Continue reading Quaint drainpipes (and windows)
Bringing Ned and Grover into focus
Various focal points on Ned Flanders
Sucking it in.
Letting it out.
Focussing on his most prominent feature.
Focus on Grover
The Cosmis Photo Challenge: Focal Point
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Before the irrefutable evidence
that smoking isn’t really conducive to your health, gentlemen smoked pipes. And very elaborate pipes indeed.
Last week we were at the UNESCO heritage site of the Abbey of Lorsch. There is a small museum close by and we had a look. A small section is concerned with the abbey, the rest of the building houses Germany’s largest tobacco museum. The combination may be unusual but not the location: Lorsch has been a tobacco growing town for three centuries.
Monday Portrait
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Mama’s little helper
Actually, anybody’s little helper. Do you know with what he is helping? This is a window shutter fastener made of cast iron. Seldom in red but usually the same face with a little helmet, they used to be standard on window shutters. It’s also a … Continue reading Mama’s little helper
The chicken was truly treed
Treed can mean a landscape covered with trees (I thought that was called a forest or wood?!). But it can also mean “forced or chased up a tree”.
Up on the roofs
for Värikollaasit #494 Aino has given this colour template for this week’s colour collage:
It’s a skill
A true actress can take any part. A short-haired 60-something-year old can play a maid with braids in the village’s spinning room.
This was before I had a decent camera and flashlight wasn’t allowed during the performance.
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You must be joking
I never really understood why some restaurants hide away art in the restrooms. But they do. I shared the ladys’ with this joker last week.
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