I’ve been doing Dale’s bidding looking for shade for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I went looking in my archive – and aye, there’s the rub. The photos in my archive are tagged in German and German doesn’t make a diffference between “shade” and “shadow” (which, as far as I know, is also the case in French, Italian, and Spanish).

Last week it was freezing, it has slowly been getting warmer, reaching just above 20°C on Thursday and then – wham! – 30°C on Friday! Blue skies and blazing sun. And I went out looking for shade.

This guard rail produces a shadow but very little shade for somebody my size.

Most of the way was like the one on the left – no shade . So I tried to reach the stretches like the one on the right where trees gave a little bit of shade.

Coming back home all hot and not bothered but sweaty I once more looked in my archive and with the right additional tags I found some shade seekers in France

and one of my first minikin attempts (I should have used a lamp):

Mind you, it was hot AND DRY on Friday, but when I went out yesterday in the evening it had turned to hotter and humid. Ugh!

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking for Shade

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