Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Pink
It’s Actually Green
even if it is called the Black Forest. FOWC with Fandango: Forest
Leftovers
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Watermelons
Daddy’s Favourite
One Word Sunday
Historical Institute
The Institute for Physics at the University of Heidelberg has had its first dedicated professor in 1752. It has moved several times during its existence, the photo below is from the 1850 building in the centre of Heidelberg’s historical town. Here Robert W. Bunsen and Gustav R. Kirchhoff established the scientific method of spectral analysis. With their spectroscope they discovered hitherto unknown elements, namely Caesium and Rubidium. Most people have heard of Bunsen because of the burner he developed and which carries his name.
Today the insitute has long moved to a modern building in a different surburb but they are still doing groundbreaking research. The institute – together with the Max-Planck-Institute Heidelberg – is devoted to fundamental questions concerning the dynamics of quantum systems at the borderline between few-body and many-body physics.
If you don’t know what they are doing, join the club. Alternatively, you can research it.
Today seems quite a scientific day, what with the Ragtag prompt being elliptical. Since the plaque about the door of the Institute is an oval – mathematically an ellipse – I use the opportunity for a double dip.
FOWC with Fandango: Research and Ragtag Daily Prompt: Elliptical
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Feathered Tulip
For Cee’s Flower of the Day and Bren’s Floral Friday
Waiting for the Next One
Whenever I hear the word emergency I have to smile. I had a Swiss friend who kept pronouncing it something like emmer-tchen-see. The rest of his English was actually quite good but he kept insisting on pronouncing it this way, he even had a custom made t-shirt with the German spelling of his pronunciation on it: “Emmertschänsie”.
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Workers’ Day or Walkers’ Day
There are two ways in Germany to celebrate May Day. It is a public holiday and the workers’ unions have large demonstrations in many cities. In our town, unfortunately, the right wing extremists have decided to march but there is a counter demonstration as well. … Continue reading Workers’ Day or Walkers’ Day
Spring in His Step, Spring in the Meadow
That’s not really my last pic on the camera SD card but pretty close. The actual last on the card is of another baby, with his face showing prominently and the parents have asked me not to put their child on the internet. With this … Continue reading Spring in His Step, Spring in the Meadow
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