Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

After the harvest surprise

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I saw this stork stalking through the cut off wheat stalks (oh my!) and grabbed my camera.  If I noticed the two spots in the back to the left of him, I didn’t give them a second thought.

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I got closer.  Magnificent bird, I thought, totally focused on the stork.

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I zoomed in.  What a wonderful bird!

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Only at home, when I had transferred the photos to my computer and saw them on the larger screen, I realised that those brown, indistinct lumps had ears.

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For A Photo a Week: Unexpected.  For more unexpected finds, click here.

Alpha and Omega

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A und O, Alpha und Omega, Anfang und Ende

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Winston Churchill

And that includes the cobwebs.

This is linked to Travel with Intent.  For more photos inspired by Winston Churchill’s quote, click here.

 

River surfing

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Eisbach

During lunchtime surfers queue up and wait their turn to surf on the standing wave in the Eisbach, a man made side arm of the river  Isar in the middle of the city of Munich.

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Eisbach

Eisbach

Eisbach

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: water.

For more watery photos, click here.

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Stork flies but fly doesn’t

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After last week’s One Word Sunday I thought I had to share a stork taking flight; i.e. a stork which flies.  Possibly, storks which fly.

Which fly? This fly:
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But it wouldn’t fly for me.

For One Word Sunday: Fly.  More flying flies or sitting flies or flying birds or flying  …, click here.

twisted love

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Where are you?

This is linked to A Photo a Week: twisted.  This little dog will twist his head a full 360° to catch a glimpse of his human.  But it is no ordinary love, she is a medical rescue dog who is trained to look out for her owner in case he is having heart problems.

Another twisted tale – not a good photo but I saw this buck with wire twisted up in his antler.  We reported it, and I think (hope) he was helped.

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To new shores beckons a new-born day

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“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

André Gide

I added a quote from  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the title (Faust I: zu neuen Ufern lockt ein neuer Tag) because the shores on earth are not as far apart as they used to be.  And lately, the moon as a destination for probes, and unmanned and even manned rocket ships has been in the news again.  

This is linked to Travel with Intent.  For more photos inspired by André Gide‘s quote, click here.