One Word Sunday: Welcome
Spoilt for Choice
The wines on offer – all from the same vintner – can vary. The decision to pick a bottle from the vending machine is a tough one. Double dipping for Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tough and FOWC with Fandango: Vary
Below the Stairs
Burg Wildenstein has some steep stairs with slippery stone steps. If you don’t hold on to the rails you might get to the bottom faster than what you had planned. The stairs leading up to the bell tower of St Bartholomew Cathedral in Teplice have … Continue reading Below the Stairs
First this, than that, now this
Alternative title: Fifty Steps, No Steps, Bike Ride Six Word Saturday
Thinking Woman with Bird
In front of the local hospital is this intriguing sculpture. The artist is Jürgen Goertz. I find sculptures in public places difficult to photograph because of the background intruding. It’s difficult to work with depth of field if you want to get the whole sculpture … Continue reading Thinking Woman with Bird
Natural Candelabra
FOWC with Fandango: Candelabra
Echinacea Palida
For FOTD and Floral Friday
Three Metal Trios
Thursday Trios
Happiness and Warm Thoughts
“Sunshine is helpful for thinking. It warms up the brain cells.”
Shannon Wiersbitzky, The Summer of Hammers and Angels
“And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what’s warm – whether it’s something or someone – toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being safe in the world and ready for sleep, that’s happiness.”
Paul Schmidtberger, Design Flaws of the Human Condition
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I’m Petrified
This is fossilised or petrified piece of a giant redwood tree found near Leipzig when mining for soft coal and said to be 30,000 years old. Why a local sparkling wine company from Nierstein decided to buy the piece to display it in front of … Continue reading I’m Petrified
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