Is Four Dogs Considered a Pack?

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I was hiking on my own in southern France. I wanted to walk up to the Tour de la Massane above Argelès-sur-Mer near Perpignan. I passed one farmhouse with two dogs trying to block my way and I passed them, feeling very uneasy doing so. About a kilometre further on, the road led past another farmhouse and this time it was four dogs that barricaded the my way. I didn’t dare to go back (because of the two I had already met) so I kept walking and the old guys were hanging back but the black one kept getting closer. I decided not to chance it and took the next turn back down towards where I had parked the car. He was friendly enough but followed me all the way back to my car, I guess he wanted to make sure that I really left.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Pack

Too Big to Dust

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That’s the crest on top of the huge wine vat in the cellar of the Heidelberg Castle – not the BIG vat, though, but quite big. And it’s dusty. FOWC with Fandango: Dusty

More Poppies

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This could have been One Word Sunday: Red for Debbie, this could have been a red square for Becky’s Simply Red, but it is a colour collage for Aino’s Värikollaasit #457

Not a Bully

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I had the word “Bulli” (no typo) in yesterday’s post. Actually here a Bulli is a VW transporter, the first few models to be precise. This one is a panel van or delivery van, a Bulli nevertheless. This is a younger model, still the same … Continue reading Not a Bully

Reliefs of Clerical Life

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These bronze reliefs show scenes depicting the Premonstratensians who founded the Cathedral of Havelberg (a town in Brandenburg, about an hours drive west of Berlin) in the 12th century. They are on the outside walls of the cathedral. Not, I think, a very flattering representation: contemplative life, removed from the people; lording over a battlefield, soldiers and skulls, during the Wendish Crusade, a military campaign to crush the Slavs; contemplative life, removed from the people; and feasting on the labours of others in the last. The artist is contemporary Bernd Streiter.

FOWC with Fandango: Relief

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