Electronic Hope

This electronic boards on the highway in Germany gives the time it normally takes to reach the mentioned point plus the added minutes due to rush hour, traffic jams, or – dread to think – an accident. It looks like we got home in time without delay on this day.

FOWC with Fandango: Electronic

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A Real Life Heroin-e

Luigi Toscano / Akut Gegen das Vergessen

This mural in Mannheim by Luigi Toscano is called “Against Forgetting” and shows two concentration camp survivors. On the woman’s face is written: “We have to remember the past but we mustn’t live in it.” She is a symbol for surviving, not forgetting, but moving on. She is a heroine.

FOWC with Fandango: Heroin

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A Minor Celebrity

Last weekend we were at the Opel-Zoo near Frankfurt and I snapped a photo of this beaded lizard. When I was making up this post I checked out its English name, and as I often do with the help of wikipedia rather than with a dictionary. And I was amazed that a photo of this particular lizard is on the German wikipedia site (not on the English one) to show a Skorpion-Krustenechse. The scorpion in the German name is due to the fact that it is poisonous.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Reptilian