A reticulated python is called that because of the net or web like pattern – reticulated means “like a net”. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tangled Web
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Across the Bridge
Crossing the river Neckar in Mannheim can be done on different bridges. This is the newest of them all, a bridge for pedestrians only. It’s the Collini-Steg – named after an intimate friend of Voltaire, Cosimo Alessandro Collini lived at the Mannheim court, considered an esteemed scientist, … Continue reading Across the Bridge
Testing the Ice on the Lake
Six Word Saturday
Nature or Nuture?
If you grow up in a specific neighbourhood it’s not just the houses and streets themselves, it’s the people, the language, the history. Is this influence more or less formative than the genes? FOWC with Fandango: Milieu
Joy or Sorrow
time keeps flowing. Birkenau (in the Odenwald) is a large village or small town of just under 10,000 inhabitants. It also has more than 200 sun dials, free standing ones and on houses. Since 2021 the record is official: Birkenau has the world record in “laregest … Continue reading Joy or Sorrow
It Was Cold and Windy
For FOTD and Floral Friday
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice
just stick out your tongue. FOWC with Fandango: Rude
Nine Crawleys, Not Creepy
Three Congo chafer beetles. They looked so pretty in their enclosure. Checking up on their English name I learned that they are often kept as food for terrarium animals. (Yes, I know that the iguanas and lizards and monitors need food, too, but putting the food on display … Continue reading Nine Crawleys, Not Creepy
Winter Clouds
Wordless Wednesday
Frost With Wind from the East
Midweek Monochrome
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