This vain young man in the typical selfie pose has been standing in the garden of Schloss Stolzenfels for close to 200 years.
(Admittely I made a sword disappear but the pose is all his own.)
Monday Portrait
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I just learnt that the name allium comes from the Latin word for “garlic”.
Macro Monday
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Värikollaasit #499
I don’t know if grashoppers know where they will land next. Maybe they do, to me it seems erratic.
Or check out my bonus post: It didn’t look erratic
are really hard. Ritva asked to chose one colour for six photos. But … see title. So I decided to show one photo per colour (which was the other option). Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Choose a Colour!
“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the “burning marl.” Old wives’ tales! There’s no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
Sartre’s quote from his stage play has always been true. In small, insidious ways, and in large, horrific ways.
There were numerous death marches from concentration camps to other locations (i.e. away from the advance of the allied forces). In 2025 there was a remembrance march passing this sculpture in Bad Tölz behind a banner reading “Never again”.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Hell
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I don’t know why this large, old tree was cut down. It stood very close to an old house, on a slope, maybe it was getting to be a precarious situation. It was hewed down and chopped up, in manageable portions.
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