Author: eklastic

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

Three for five

59 bight refulgent

A bight of a lake with refulgent water and two splendid headless birds.  (I have no idea whether I used the two words properly.)

59 poly nuance

A polychromatic piece of art, waiting to be put up, showing colour nuances from light to dark.

59 bichrome

I just had to answer Paula’s polychromatic cow with this bichrome one.

For Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word.  Follow the link to find more bichrome, polychromatic, and refulgent photos of bights with all the nuances you wish for.

 

shrinking hyacinths

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“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” 

Stephen Hunt

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

Sticking together

05 many d

Six ducklings, can’t tell if it’s boys or girls.

05 many c

Six ducklings, all grown up.  Everybody can tell: three boys, three girls,

05 many b

Lots of pigeons, anytime. Sitting anywhere at all.

05 many e

Lots of pigeons, in winter. Sitting in a row.

05 many a

And flying high!

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: 5+ items. Click on the link for more than 5.

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2000 years of outhouses

Haselburg

This is the remains of a toilet facility built by Romans in a villa rustica in the Odenwald in German.  When it was built it was most probably not an outhouse as such but now it is as open as anything.

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This is from more than a millenium later, in the ruin of a castle in Handschuhsheim near Heidelberg.  Since it has no direct water access (unlike the Roman facilities) it was a lot less hygienic.

Tiefburg

This now is from the 21st century: plastic and with a slightly humourous sign.

Dixi

Finally, for my private satisfaction.  The poster of a local wannabe politician with a sign that shows where I think he belongs.

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Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: bathrooms, outhouses and port-a-potties.

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Teaching German

“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.” 

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

This is Debbie’s quote for the week and basically, this is about my life, working as well as social.  So instead of a photo, I will just link to my other blog:

https://eklastic.wordpress.com/

where I talk about my experiences of teaching German to migrants and refugees, particular illiterate learners (some couldn’t write in any script, some only couldn’t write our Latin based script.  It started this almost four years ago (yikes! it’s been that long!!)

It’s written in English and German; I switch around with which language I start.

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This is linked to Travel with Intent: another language.