Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Diagonal Lines
It Won’t ever Be quiet in a Smithy
and what would a horse going by without the clippety-clop? Incidentally, a horse shoe is a hoof iron in German. Clop – clop – clop – clippety – clop – clop – clop – clop – clippety – clop – clop … Can you hear it?
Double-dippety – dip – dip – dip
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Seven in Fairy Tales VIII
Technically not a fairy tale but rather a “funny tale”, however The Seven Swabians appeared in the collection of the Brothers Grimm. The people in the photo might not be born Swabians or even Germans some of them but they lived long enough in the Stuttgart area and identify as Stuttgarter and therefore Swabians.
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Burnt Infestation
Aino suggested burnt orange for this week’s colour collage – Värikollaasit:
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Vegan or not Vegan?
Sometimes known as Lady’s slipper vine this Thunbergia mysorensis (yes, just like Greta) is a native of Southern India (not like Greta). I thought it might be an insect-eating plant but the ants (which I only noticed on the computer screen at home) have a different opinion.
Macro Monday
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In Need of TLC
Monday Window
Seven in Fairy Tales VII
This one is obvious – it’s Cinderella, of course. Cendrillon, Aschenputtel or Aschenbrödel. In the fairy tale the number of doves helping her to sort the lentils from the ashes is not clear but in this depiction (the same half-timbered house which illustrated the story of the seven little goats) there are seven doves. Seven doves for the seventh fairy tale! I have to admit to cheating again – in order to get the mural square I had to delete a panel. It only contained the prince, though.
It’s the most international of all fairy tales, with Italian and French sources, a couple of German versions, and apparently versions of this story are found in India, Arabia, Iran, and South East Asia.
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