Somewhere in Swabia, on an elevation next to the road …
For One Word Sunday: Size.
Author: eklastic
Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.
A policeman, a market-woman, were standing …
Smiles all round with these two life-size sculptures in the middle of Koblenz in the Rhine valley. They depict a market-woman and a policeman illustrating an old joke which is written on a plaque in the local dialect (about Norbert’s dog who peed on the leg of the market-woman’s husband).
This is linked to A Photo a Week: smile.
Every little flower’s reaching for the sun
I like experimenting in monochrome but I don’t like robbing flowers off their colours. So for Cee’s challenge I made it so that I couldn’t see the original colours but chose a picture from a series of monochromes. To check up after I had made my choice I looked at the coloured version and I just can’t not show it:
This is linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: flower of any kind.
live and learn, love and live
“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”
Frank Herbert
Linked to Travel with Intent who gave that quote as inspiration.
No plants – no food. Simples.
Linked to One Word Sunday: Simplicity.
Dampfnudel und Kartoffelsupp’
Some 50+ years ago this was often what we ate on a Saturday: potato soup and yeast dumplings or sometimes yeast dumplings and wine sauce. It was either and not all together as it is offered here on the window of this pastry shop in Ladenburg, near Mannheim. I had never seen this combination – Dampfnudel und Kartoffelsuppe – in a restaurant before. It was a real blast from the past, evocative of Saturday mornings which were spent in school, coming home to mum’s home cooking. A time when Saturday afternoons were meant for working in the house and the garden, shops closed at 1 or 2pm, and the busy day slowly eased into the weekend. Food on Saturdays was simple and traditional, usually eaten in the kitchen, unlike more formal Sunday fare.
This is linked to A Photo a Week Challenge: nostalgia.
Half-timbered houses
Cee writes on her block: For a great monochrome photo “look for contrast or highly textured subjects to photograph”. — Half-timbered houses then for me!
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: any kind of house.
Who would I be to argue with a Marx?
“I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.”
Groucho Marx
And so we turned our backs on Britain when we visited. The weather was just too gorgeous.
Linked to Travel with Intent: quotations.
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