As usual, our local botanical garden does not disappoint, not even in November.
for Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday
Rather late than never
Some street names are generic (Main Sreet, Church Street, etc.), some are named after famous people. In some periods streets were named after people or places which don’t transport well into newer times..
In 1933 Joseph Goebbels asked German towns and cities to name places and streets after Gdańsk to manifest the claim the German state was asserting to incorporate Danzig/Gdańsk into the German state. Danziger Straße (as in my hometown) is inoccuous enough, similar to Prager Straße, Londoner Straße, Moskauer Straße, Warschauer Straße… But adding “Freiheit” (freedom or liberty) is something else. “Danziger Freiheit” (Freedom of or for Gdańsk) is definitely a Nazi slogan. Koblenz finally changed the infamous name to “Esther-Bejearano-Straße” in 2022. Esther Bejearano was a survivor of the the Auschwitz deathcamp.
I like that they left the crossed-out name to show that a change was (finally) made and to show a connection between the two names.
Getting your cheese seems like hard work
and fun, too! FOWC with Fandango: Cheese NB: The word in the featured photo is not German, in case you were wondering, it’s Afrikaans and also Dutch. The car number plate is from the town of Karlsruhe (KA)..
Tra Le La Le La Triangle
Title courtesy of Patsy Cline. Monochrome Madness has Sarah from Travel with Me as host this week, and the theme is Triangles. Link your contribution to her post or to Leanne’s. Play triangles Architectural triangles Aerial triangles And the final triangle, literally the final one … Continue reading Tra Le La Le La Triangle
Everything went catawampus
Granddaughter was about to fall of the swingy thingy, camera was about to fall to the floor, grandma was flying towards the point of action …
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Catawampus
Autumn light
Festival of Leaves #6
The wind is shaking the branches
Festival of Leaves #5
“Only in our dreams”
Title courtesy of Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters. I looked for quotes on dreams, very much like this giant dream catcher (on the art walk in Darmstadt’s town forest), trying to catch quotes. And was overwhelmed with grand, inspriational thoughts about big dreams like this one … Continue reading “Only in our dreams”
