Author: eklastic
The Man in Pink
Cut Your Own Tulip
Cutting flowers and paying on the honour system.
for Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday
Water My Blood
How can you not think of Hemingway?
Earth my body. Air my breath. Fire my will. Water my blood.
Small droplets
collecting in puddles and bowls
flowing into streams
and rivers
into larger rivers
and finally finding their way into the sea
reaching from shore to shore.
Just another couple of weeks
Pitching for Luck
Before stag and hen parties became a thing in Germany, we had Polterabend, a party before the wedding day usually with the wedding guests as well as all the friends who won’t come to the reception. One tradition is the actual “Poltern”, the guests break dishes and other crockery for luck. The first joint task of the couple is to clear up the debris to prepare them for married life. I have this personal theory that there is a finite amount of porcelain that is going to break in anygiven marriage and the plates and dishes broken on the polterabend are deducted from this, i.e. the more you break during that party, the less will be broken during the marriage.
Standing on the Wing of an Airplane
At the Technikmuseum in Speyer they have a Boing 474 and you can walk out on its wing.
You can see the Speyer Cathedral.
To the west, the mountains of the Palatinate Forest can be seen.
Further to the south is the town of Speyer and the trees lining the banks of the river Rhein.
Zooming out and the tail of the jumbo on which I was standing comes into view.
And that is the view to the front of the airplane.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Three views from one spot
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