Author: eklastic

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I’m a fan of hearts #2

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As promised, the second installment of my hearts.  This time upright or portrait-stlye.
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A gingerbread heart which was made especially for me (I won’t tell you what the RA stands for).

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Rainbow love on a sock.

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A multicoloured ballon heart.

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Somebody saying: “I have a heart for plants.”, or possibly: “Plants sold here.”

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A sgraffito heart on a house front.

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Wooden deco hearts.  In a restaurant where the landlady has gone crazy with deco – this was the least busy window.

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🎼” … I don’t have a wooden heart.” – But the people living here obviously do.

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Alternatively, you can carry your heart on your board.

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Or carve it in stone.

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Or scratch it on crayons.  And light it.

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Two more hearts form the light show, a reddish one and

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a purple one.

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And last not least, hearts flying up in the sky on the occasion of a wedding (another custom we should be wary of when we think of the environment.)

Linked to “I’m a fan of … #55”.  More fanatical photos can be found here.

 

Cold as ice

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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.

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For One Word Sunday: Ice.  Icier and possibly colder photos can be found here.

but first sleep

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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.

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This is part of a group depicting the night in the garden Gethsemane when all the disciples fell asleep while Jesus prayed.

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The way animals sleep, one can only be envious.

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And what do turtles dream of?

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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.

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It doesn’t look comfortable but it must be – at the moment this is our cats favourite place for a snooze.

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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

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2007 tricycle a

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.

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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.

Taken by a trip

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“People don’t take trips… trips take people.”

John Steinbeck

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… and sometimes they swallow them whole!

Linked to Travel with Intent.  For more photos inspired by the Steinbeck quote, click here.

 

Get lost!

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2006 vanishing a

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.

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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.

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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.

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Asparagus sleeping in the soil under plastic blankets.

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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.

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