The Ferry Across the Neckar

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has raised its prices. It used to be 70 cents per adult (with or without a bicycle), now it’s a full Euro. And for a car it’s 2 Euros now. You can reach Neckarhausen from Ladenburg via the bridge but it will add one-and-a-half kilometre to your journey. And it will take away about 10km of fun.

Water, Water Everywhere

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Alien Alert

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I see faces … in this case: I see a skull. This is the flower of an aristolochia macrophylla or a Dutchman’s pipe. Weird enough when they are in full bloom and even worse when they are deadheads (sic!) this one really looked at me. … Continue reading Alien Alert

Flowers for Becky

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A big thank you for the square September, Becky!

seven roses
seven dandelions plus bug
seven waterlilies plus reflections plus buds
seven orchid blooms
seven giant fleabanes plus two bees
seven red tulips
seven pink germini

Seven for September #30

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Whose Festival Is It?

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At the outset of our annual town festival the mayor and other dignitaries as well as the wine princesses of the region gather on the balcony of the old town hall. The mayor gives a speech and everybody waits for the cannon to fire from the nearby castle. Once the shot is heard the mayor asks the crowd below: “Wem is die Kerwe?” and the crowd bellows: “Unser!!!” – and four days of revelling can commence.

Translation: “Whose Festival Is It?” – “Ours!!!”

Double-gedippt (sic!) for FOWC with Fandango: Outset

and Ragtag Daily Prompt: Festival

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It’s not Five Minutes to Midnight yet

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Nor quite seven either. But it’s almost seven.

I suppose I could have gone out and caught a clock at exactly 7 o’clock but it was much more fun to look at all the clocks in my archive. The closest I came to 7 o’clock was half past six (or “half seven”) on the face of the Uhrtürmlein in Frankfurt

and three minutes to seven in Bourg-en-Bresse at the con-cathedral Notre Dame.

Seven for September #29

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