Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

Chickens aren’t the only ones

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Elwetritsche BrunnenElwetritsche Brunnen

The hatchling peeping out of an egg is an Elwetritsch, a mythical creature from the Southwest of Germany. This particular one is part of a fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.  If you want to read up on Elwetritsche (apparently they’ve made their way to the New World where they are known amongst the Pennsylvania Dutch as Elbedritsch) you can look them up on Wikipedia.

This is in response to The Daily Post prompt “Egg” – more eggy posts can be found here.

 

Count, counting, counts

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19 count a (480x640)

19 count b (640x480)

When we still had a count in our town he lived with his family in this castle.  Today it is used for the offices of the town council.  My dad used to work in one of the offices and when I visited him as a little girl I loved to walk up the flight of steps, counting each one, past two naked ladies in black marble, and imagine myself a young revolutionary charged with numerous counts of  rebellion.

This is for One Word Sunday with the topic “count“.  More counts can be found here.

Another fiver

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25 dormant
dormant
25 salubrious
salubrious
25 earmarked
earmarked

 

25 influential
influential
25 fun-loving
fun-loving

Pick a Word – or pick all five.  More photos for the  Paula’s Thursday Special can be found here.

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Romping (grand)dad

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Komm Papa hol dir deine

I saw this billboard and changed it a bit – “Come on, dad, get your recognition!” (It was for shoes originally.)

27 dad a27 dad b

I didn’t take the first picture – obviously, since it shows my dad and me.  I haven’t managed to digitalise (or will I ever?) the photos of my husband as dad when the boys were still cute, so the second one is him as granddad.

This is for A Photo A Week, dedicated to all the dads out there – for more dads click here.