The water is but shallow but this is the highlight of the nautical year: the annual regatta. Homemade model boats race against each other over a stretch of at least 100m!
And then the Car Crashed Through the Wall
Mine is not to question why. It’s what you see if you drive through Gompelscheuer. FOWC with Fandango: Crash
The Treasure in the Silver Lake
“Der Schatz im Silbersee” is a well-known German novel (mainly read by children and young adults) about American Indians, or rather what a German, namely Karl May, thought frontier life in the US was like at the time. He lived in the second part of the 19th century, so for him the stories were contemporary and he wrote as if he had been there, often making himself the protagonist of the stories. He was a proliferate writer, even today he is one of the most read German authors, and very popular movies have been made of his stories with regular reruns on German TV, particularly during Christmas and Easter holidays. The stories also spawned theatre festivals and a whole outdoor theatre where nothing but Karl May stories are staged in summer. The movies were mainly filmed in the Plitvice area of Croatia but the Mummelsee in the Northern Black Forest – wouldn’t that be a poster lake for anything called the Silver Lake?
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A Bench for Retirees
I can’t really show my backside which is definitely my warm place at the moment. I use lots of cushions, some of the ordinary, soft cushions, some of them grain cushion for extra heat. So I’m showing a bench instead, marked specially for retirees, with lots of cushion in a place out of the winds.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: My Warm Feeling
Fake or Fancy?
In Freudenstadt I saw this … let’s call it pseudo bay window, or possibly fake. I guess on the inside it has a bigger window sill and that’s it. On the outside it accentuates the shingled housefront. I rummaged through my archive and I found … Continue reading Fake or Fancy?
I’m Easy
and I’m fast to find a reason to smile. I’ve never seen this friend in a dirndl before and it was worth it! He smiled right back at me. Interesting rain gear. I have no idea why these creatures were standing or sitting where they … Continue reading I’m Easy
A Boy’s Dream
Värikollaasit #437 A Sunday collage based on these soft autumn hues:
Let’s Do the Shimmy Again
I immediately had the Tina Turner song in my head when I read shim (I learned about the other meanings of “shim” only after consulting a dictionary). The line about the shimmy is not even in the official lyrics of “Private Dancer” but Tina Turner adds it like a line of dialogue between the dancer and her customer.
The picture was done by my son for my husband for his sixtieth birthday (so quite some time ago) when he dabbled in caricatures during his teenage years.
Blue Forest and Grey Forest
One Word Sunday: Lowkey Highkey
Leftovers
I was passing a house the other day and I thought: “Flamingoes in the Garden. Kind of rococo but it adds colour in autumn! Also kind of cute.” And then I had a closer look. Oh my! Cellpic Sunday
