Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Everyday
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Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Throw a Light on Wrought Iron
Sometimes it’s details in a piece of wrought iron that catches your eye – in this case helped by a ray of sunlight.
At other times it’s the large statement of a gate – the left one is the gate of the old Jewish cemetery in Hemsbach (the sign says: Be careful – branches might break and fall!), the right one is the side entrance of the Peterskirche in Weinheim.
Smaller details can be an eyecatcher whether it is a ornate element (of probably cast iron) or the rust having settled decoratively.
Wrought iron can be used to create art.
You don’t believe it’s wrought iron? Look at the raven’s feet!
A combination of wrought iron and cast iron (or possibly only cast iron but how could I resist of showing this ancestor of Henryl?).
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Wrought Iron
The Truth about Coffee
If you believe that this is true about coffee:
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
you better head over to
where you can get all this, I guess.
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This Time in Black and White
I’m a bit short on lighthouses in the middle of Europe, so I’m using some photos from 2015.
The Roker lighthouse in Sunderland as seen through the C2C (coast to coast) giant shutter.
Approaching the lighthouse from the south and approaching it from the north.
Having approached I stood directly underneath and had nowhere to go.
I’ve decided that it looks best from the shore, showing off its beautifully curved pier.
Monochrome Madness: Lighthouse in Different Compositions
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My T-shirt Shelf Runneth over
Whenever there is a major Hash House Harrier event, we get a t-shirt as keepsake.
That’s one way to combat the overflow:
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Keepsake
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The Usurper Will not Go Unchallenged
Prince Max to the right: the smaller the prince, the more obvious the sign, apparently.
The Central Council of Pond Frogs protests: “This ain’t no prince! We demand a thorough investigations of his credentials!”
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The Woods Next to My Home
In 1871 a baron decided that he wanted a forest full of unusual trees so he started to plant trees not native to the area in his backyard. He didn’t just plant one tree of every kind but in groups of hundreds. In ten years he planted (or rather had planted) more than 12,000 trees on the grounds behind his castle in Weinheim an der Bergstraße, 1460 of the trees were sequoias. In 1955 the family sold the area to the State of Baden-Württemberg and the care of the “Exotic Forest” fell to official foresters. Today it is open woodland like any other public forest in Germany. Over the years more and more species were introduced and now more than 130 non-native species can be found species, most of them thriving in large groups.
Although I am most attracted to the sequoias other species have their charm like this American tulip tree. Information boards are displayed next to the paths.
Animals are few and far between because of the many visitors but one can get lucky.
Sometimes it’s hard to cross the path because of the amount of traffic. Heedful snails look left and right before they cross.
Occasionally though, one can meet a more threatening member of the animal population. This one was aggressively lunging at me:
Last Saturday
was the 22 July and that was National Hammock Day in the US.
You could have been laying in one and humming softly.
Cee’s Midweek Madness: Words with mm
Wordless Wednesday
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