
Wordless Wednesday
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Polish ceramics at a market Linked to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness: Ceramics and Brian at Bushboys World, this week’s host.
This mural in Mannheim by Luigi Toscano is called “Against Forgetting” and shows two concentration camp survivors. On the woman’s face is written: “We have to remember the past but we mustn’t live in it.” She is a symbol for surviving, not forgetting, but moving on. She is a heroine.

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Last weekend we were at the Opel-Zoo near Frankfurt and I snapped a photo of this beaded lizard. When I was making up this post I checked out its English name, and as I often do with the help of wikipedia rather than with a dictionary. And I was amazed that a photo of this particular lizard is on the German wikipedia site (not on the English one) to show a Skorpion-Krustenechse. The scorpion in the German name is due to the fact that it is poisonous.
2 – 4 – 6 – 8 Who do we appreciate? Those who drive slowly. Those who mind children. Those who don’t hog the road and let tractors past (particularly those belonging to winegrowers). I don’t know what he is appreciative about – having a … Continue reading The Little Brother of Being Grateful
I had planned to go to the local botanical garden because it looks awesome in every season. But the weather has been grey and I just didn’t feel like going out of the house. However, I had to go out of the flat because I … Continue reading My Neighbours’ Garden


Two opposites: outdoor shopping in Valledoria in Sardinia – indoor shopping in Forchheim in Franken.


And here is the competition – CBD instead of tobacco. And dolls, lotsa dolls.


Only for window shopping if you don’t want to bring home dust collectors in your home.
And inside my favourite kind of store in Bourg-en-Bresse. Not just tables and tables stacked with books but also with notes of the booksellers and their personal critiques (the good books get little hearts).
All the others are painted. They deceive the eye, don’t they?
This is the name of the craftsman and/or artist who designed and executed this trompe-l’œil.

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