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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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
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”.
for Värikollaasit #494 Aino has given this colour template for this week’s colour collage:
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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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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Golden trumpet One Word Sunday
First they lined up for me (the lucky shot), then they came for me. Then I ran. I got away (lucky me). He saw the beer, he went for it. Two lucky shots. And a lucky boy (until his father grabbed the bottle away from … Continue reading I was lucky
crossing the river Neckar. Built in 1788 on the foundations of older bridges the name “Alte Brücke” stuck.
This salad of leaves has invaded our very neglected garden lawn.I was surprised the first year, just some leaves, actually lots of leaves. Of course, after a while they reveal what they are, i.e. the common chicory known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, and not … Continue reading The grandma of chicory
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