Author: eklastic

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

5 words, in and out of the box

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Schrauben und Muttern
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There was this pond covered with water lilies, one about to be born like Venus of the watery foam, a nascent life form.  Nearby lilac flowers looked like an abundance of writhing snakes pullulating in the bushes.  This made me hungry so I went to the famous Viktualienmarkt in Munich with its hundreds of stalls selling victuals of every kind.  A car passed by – and I wondered if a nut feels maternal towards bolts, after all in German they are called “Mutter” which means “mother”.   And I was back at the pond where a frog pondered reflectively about his eye glancing up at him from the water and he completed the circle quoting “Consider the lilies!” from The Life of Brian.

For Thursday’s Special – pick a word.  I’ve picked 5.

To have a look what others made of the challenge, click here.

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I need more thingamabobs

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I had to look up oojamaflip. Once I knew what it was I realised that I know a few synonyms for this expression, they are:

doodad, oojah, whatchamacallit, whatsit, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingum, thingy.

So how do you call these pull out drawer thingies for storing bottles and whatsits?

More oojamaflips can be found at One Word Sunday.

How tall will you grow?

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In our local forest the sign posts direct you to the different exotic species found.  Three sequoia varieties are there, the coast or California redwood (Küstenmammutbaum), the giant redwood (Riesenmammutbaum), and the sequioadendron giganteum (Urweltmammutbaum).  One of the unique features of the Exotenwald Weinheim is that not only a few specimen were planted but whole hectares of one kind. When the arboretum was started around 1870 almost 1500 sequoias were planted, most of which survived and are now tall and majestic.  With the exception of the Urweltmammutbaum, said to be a living fossil and only discovered in 1941 – but there are a few of those as well, planted in 2011 and apparently thriving.

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Many of the paths are wide and well maintained, perfect for a stroll rather than a hike.

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But it is fun to leave those and turn down (or up) narrower

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and darker paths.

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For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  More photos of paths, ways, streets, avenues, or alleys can be found here.

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And a good time was had by all

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Obviously, traces of a recent past.  Carrying your glass bottles to recycling containers is almost second nature to many Germans, so much so that the capacity of the containers cannot keep up with the thirst of the collectors.

For Paula’s recurring challenge Traces of the Past, a Thursday’s Special.

For more traces of the past, click here.

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Do they have the golden rule?

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This is George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh, seen from the street.  As I checked on the name I found out that George Heriot was a goldsmith working for royalty around Shakespeare’s time.  Makes sense, doesn’t it?

For Nancy’s A Photo a Week asking for photos with the colour gold.

For more golden photos, click here.

Synecdoche

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A synecdoche is a figure of speech by which a part stands for the whole.

This was true when I posted this bee to stand for the whole “earth” – the topic for The Daily Post’s photo challenge from 19 April 2017.  One of my first photos for this challenge and one of my personal all time favourites.

Now this one photo stands for all the other photos which I have submitted to this challenge.

I think it is a worthy goodbye.

For more favourites and final goodbyes to The Daily Post, click here.