
No backrest – but still a bench of sorts.
It’s from Roker Beach, Sunderland.

No backrest – but still a bench of sorts.
It’s from Roker Beach, Sunderland.

Who needs sit-ins when you can have pop-ins?

I think I need to adjust the colours of my computer screen, the specification was ink blue and red. Hence, another collage – the owls were part of Birmingham’s Big Hoot owl exhibition.
But I like my poppies, so I am leaving them here anyway.

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Seen in Fischbach, Germany.
And from the same village, somebody’s overkill in barnyard decoration:


Germans will understand … I tracked the animal in the wild.
http://jennifernicholewells.com/2015/12/08/one-word-photo-challenge-armadillo/
The photo challenge asks for buildings and trees. The first two pictures are maybe not quite was is expected, yet …

A house side panel in Weimar, Germany.

Literally, a house with a tree, Haus zum Dannenbaum (House of the Fir Tree) in Ladenburg, Germany.
And then something more traditional:

The entry building to the German national garden show in Brandenburg an der Havel.

Hermannshof, a show garden with the original house in Weinheim, Germany.


I found both those “sitters” near the Biosphärenhaus in Fischbach, in the South West of Germany. I like both, the little metal knight with the fishes on his shield (Fischbach, of course), but also the reading lady.

These plates were painted by school children and exhibited in the National Glass Centre in Sunderland. They were created during a special craft session and with inspiration drawn from the Willow Pattern Story.

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This collage started out with a different photo that gave me the idea and didn’t make it into the final design:

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Pink and yellow – this fun swimming facility, just before sunrise.


It’s not a terribly original message, but the bench itself is quite unusual. I saw it in the Kleinwalsertal, this little curious part of Austria that is only accessible via Germany.
https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/bench-series-46/