What the English consider a shrinking violet, Germans know as a Mimose. Figuratively speaking. For FOTD and Floral Friday
Sculptured Trios II
Hubert Löneke’s sculpture of three children holding up their bent pinkie is alluding to the greeting gesture of people from Aachen when they meet each other away from the town, a sort of recognisable code. Without these three men we might not read books today. … Continue reading Sculptured Trios II
Eleven Candles
FOWC with Fandango: Birthday
Karlstern Roads
Karlstern is a wooded area on the outskirts of Mannheim. It was originally established during the reign of Elector Karl Theodor of Pfalz Bayern and the roads are radiating outwards like a star. Today there is a small game park in the centre housing wild … Continue reading Karlstern Roads
Fern Green Signs
Cee is asking for examples of the colour fern green. Now, the easy (and potentially beautiful) way out would be to show actual fern.
A restaurant in Scotland, a bus stop in Baden-Württemberg, a warning sign in France, a warning sign in Germany, a sign for a wine growing town, a sign for a scenic place near Frankfurt.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Colour Fern Green
Wordless Wednesday
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The Distance of the Heart
Sometimes distance is not the kilometres. It’s about five-and-a-half thousand kilometres from our current home to our home in Saudi Arabia but it might as well be on the moon because the rules in Saudi make it very hard to go back. I’m not saying … Continue reading The Distance of the Heart
Punctuated Joke
Susan and Gerry from Weekly Prompts offered the prompt “leaves” for this weeks Wednesday Challenge. It’s autumn and leaves (as in: the plural of leaf) is an obvious choice. I thought about it, obviously, but I thought the competition would be fierce so I’d rather offer a take on an old joke.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
Lynne Truss, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenges: Leaves
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I See Monsters
Wordless Wednesday
