Värikollaasit colour collage based on chrysolite colours. Click here for more.
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Cold as ice
Since this winter was a total non-event in this corner of the earth (no snow, no ice, a few mornings with a semblage of hoarfrost and that was it) I have to resort to a bit of cheating. Eis in German means ice but also ice cream.
For One Word Sunday: Ice. Icier and possibly colder photos can be found here.
BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.
I can’t let that go without an explanation: I am reading Pratchett (again). So when I came upon this photo in my archive this quote from Mort came unbidden. It’s all capitals since it’s DEATH speaking.
For Six Word Saturday.
but first sleep
I’ve used this group before. It’s a sculpture of, I think, eight sleepers. There is space to sit next or opposite them but I don’t think living people can really relax close to them.
This is part of a group depicting the night in the garden Gethsemane when all the disciples fell asleep while Jesus prayed.
The way animals sleep, one can only be envious.
And what do turtles dream of?
Cats of course, are champion sleepers. This one slept next to a busy road and had made this flower pot his own. A potted cat, so to speak.
It doesn’t look comfortable but it must be – at the moment this is our cats favourite place for a snooze.
And this picture is – for me – pure bliss. Falling asleep while reading a book … without the dummy, for preference though.
For A Photo a Week: Sleeping.
Riding the waves
Another beguiling illusion from our visit to the illuminated Luisenpark in Mannheim. This little tri-cyclist was slightly apprehensive before he ventured out on the brickwalk with his little mean machine but then he had a lot of fun.
And it was almost monochrome by itself.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Bicycles, Tricycles and Motorcycles. More two- or three-wheelers can be found here.
It works both ways
In both cases, I’m not sure who was cheered up more.
Linked to On the Hunt for Joy: Cheer Someone Else Up.
Taken by a trip
“People don’t take trips… trips take people.”
John Steinbeck
… and sometimes they swallow them whole!
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the Steinbeck quote, click here.
Get lost!
I didn’t want to swear, it’s just that I would like to get lost in this picture. It is from a two-dimensional light installation in a local park – I wouldn’t mind exploring up to and beyond the vanishing point.
This, on the other hand, is a most boring vanishing point: a school hallway while the exciting stuff is happening behind the doors to the left.
On a forest path, the logged trees create a vanishing point perspective – just before they will be vanishing, hopefully to make furniture and not just wood pellets for heating.
Asparagus sleeping in the soil under plastic blankets.
And the best vanishing points of all can be found in vineyards (and possibly orchards).
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vanishing or leading lines.
I’m a fan of hearts #1
When I decided on hearts as the subject of this week’s “I’m a fan of …” I didn’t realise how many hearts I do have on file. So I decided to split the post. I tried to sort the photos thematically, chronologically, by colour – then I gave up. The simplest solution: This week’s hearts are in landscape format, next week’s will be portrait.
Let’s start off with a “hearty welcome” because
“adwenture” is calling.
Ugly, untidy, but a heart, nevertheless.
A heart for gardening in general, and bees in particular.
A heart for a Seffrican braai, or an Australian barbie, or a French grillade.
Elephants have hearts, too.
A heart for Ulm, a town situated between Bavaria and Swabia.
A rusty heart and
and a heart drawn in chalk proclaiming the love of veal cutlets.
A heart and it’s murky reflection during a light show.
A very elusive heart – no snow this year.
More light-hearted hearts.
And finally bleeding hearts (I always feel as if I’m swearing when I mention these flowers).
Linked to I’m a fan of … For more fanatical photos, click here.
Up on the wheel
A ferris wheel, that is.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge. More photos from above can be found here.
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