Slightly untidy, yet serious voyagers.
Voyagers with different priorities – provisions are essential!
And a boot full of very different priorities!
For One Word Sunday: voyage or voyager. More 🎼 “Voyage, voyage!” 🎵🎶 can be found here.
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Two spas, more water and more to drink, and a tree
Taking the waters in Mariánské Lázně (formerly Marienbad) used to be very fashionable in times gone by. In this case the waters of the Cross Spring, the most famous spring in the Czech town. A huge pavilion with a cupola bearing a patriarchal cross was built over the spring in the early 19th century. Today’s concrete building is a copy from hundred years later of the original wooden structure – detox.
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe near Frankfurt in Germany was also known for its mineral springs and has a tradition as a spa. The White Tower is part of the castle, here showing up at dusk behind the modern day traffic – crepuscular.
More water (if not the mineral kind) but also close to sunset with the sea at the mouth of the Wear in Sunderland sparkling like diamonds – scintillating.
In Sunderland we visited a friend who we first met in Saudi and who taught us to decode these signs – coded.
And now for something completely different as I can’t find a connection here – lofty.
A Thursday’s Special – pick a word (in January). You can find more photos illustrating lofty, coded, scintillating, crepuscular, and detox here.
I am watching you …
from a the distance …
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: in the distance.
More removed photos can be found here.
Feeling blue – in a good way
I don’t know if that exquisite blue flower was the blue flower of the romantics but it could be. It can be found next to fields (hence its common name “Wegwarte” in German, which could be translated as “watcher on the path”) but Common Chicory has practical applications in ersatz-coffee making.
In the blue yonder with a blue balloon.
The side entrance of the restaurant known as “Blue Monkey” (“Blauer Aff“).
For One Word Sunday.
More blue photos can be found here.
Rising from the ground like a skyscraper
Frankfurt and its business and banking district is the closest we come to skyscrapers in Germany. No comparison to really high buildings the world over but impressive enough if you walk around them on ground level and look up.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: unusual perspective.
For more perspectives, click here.
A vine for all seasons
Vineyards always give great opportunities for photos with a definite vanishing point, no matter what time of year it is.
winter
spring
summer
autumn
For A Photo a Week: vanishing point.
Interesting (yet completely irrelevant) fact: In German, it’s an “escape point”, not a vanishing point.
More photos with more vanishing points can be found here.
Swedish colours
construction aesthetics
needy blue and yellow
springy blue and yellow
eye-catching blue and yellow
agricultural blue and yellow
industrial blue and yellow
political blue and yellow
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: blue & yellow. For more blue and yellow click here.
Verboten!
For One Word Sunday: list. And what a list it is!
It is forbidden in the forest to
- start or maintain an open fire – including a bbq fire
- smoke between 1 March and 31 October
- camp
- leave waste behind
- drive on forest tracks without a permit
Violations are a misdemeanour and carry a fine of up to 10,000 DM. Forestry office Bad Bergzabern.
From the fine it is clear that this is an old sign. But boy, does it feed into prejudices about Germans. 😜
More lists or possibly listing photographs, have a look here.
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