Christmas lights are put up between the last brown leaves and seeds. One season ends, another one is coming – maybe a fitting end to Festival of leaves. More last leaves can be found here.
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
Krötenwanderung
This is a groaner in German and I have to explain. A funny synonym for money is Kröten, or toads. So I found this sign where to find the next branch of the local bank, which happens to be in Toad Lane, particularly fitting for One Word Sunday: money.
The literal meaning of Krötenwanderung is toad migration but it can be used in the figurative sense: when a stream of my money wanders from my pockets into the pockets of an unscrupulous organisation or company.
It’s not perfect but it is better
for the environment. Individual transportation is comfortable but often not the best solution. In Germany, public transport is called ÖPNV = Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr, and always a topic of conversation.
A train pulls into a Munich subway station.
Same train, same station. Stationary but with selective colouring.
Night time stop for an intercity bus in Germany.
And finally, shades of things to come: public transport in miserable winter weather.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with public transport as theme.
Click here for other bloggers’ public transport photos.
IFOs – identified flying objects
When we used to live on the highveld in South Africa bright blue skies without a cloud in sight where the order of the day during winter. In reference to a Perry Rhodan story (a German scifi series, published in pulp fiction form) we used to call it “das blaue System” (the blue system – a defense shield around planets which manifested by bright blue skies without any colour gradient). How can I not use the photo of this aircraft with the “Star Wars” logo blazoned across it to illustrate this idea?
Contrary to popular belief, we have blue system skies even in Germany.
For A Photo a Week with the theme blue.
More blue or blueish photos are linked here.
Oh, look! A mountain!
Sometimes you have to take a prompt literally.
This is a photo from Schynege Platte in the Berner Oberland, Switzerland. The guy in front can actually look down on Lake Brienz, so it is not just mountains.
More viewpoints can be found here, for One Word Sunday.
Who the Fred?
Pick a word for Thursday’s Special in November. More picked words can be found here.
Water, water, everywhere
Impressions of the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, Germany, for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More photos of flowing waters can be found here.
Round and round it goes
Nancy Meryll was asking for a series of photos from above and from below of the same thing for A Photo a Week. These photos were taken in Neustadt an der Weinstraße at the festival of the wine harvest. From the top of the ferris wheel one has a great view of the festival, the town, and the whole area. And from below it’s a structure of metal beams.
Check out other bloggers’ contribution to this challenge here.
Without sin
We go naked because we want nothing of this world; for we came
into the world naked and unclothed. […] ― The Travels
(stories told by Marco Polo and written by Rustichello da Pisa)
More photos inspired by the quote can be found here.
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