And that is the whole house from the front with the sandstone set off beautifully by the white paint.
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Gruffalo Nesting
Do you remember Russian nesting dolls? A couple of years back a friend of mine who knew my liking of the Gruffalo children’s books sent me the Gruffalo version of the Matryoska dolls (including a paint brush and paints).
The Fox, the Owl, the Snake, and the Mouse are inside the Gruffalo.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: One Thing Inside Another
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More than just Prickly
This jet fighter plane was photographed at the Technikmuseum in Speyer. I think it is a Russian MIG but I neglected to photograph the board with the name and specifications. If somebody knows better please let me know in the comments.
Anyhow, it has an impressive spike.
Late Recognition
That’s the war memorial in my home town. It was erected in 1936 and all the dead of world war I were registered. Except for four of them. It you look closely you see the four last ones on this list, not in alphabetical order and slightly different in colour. It’s because they were Jewish Germans who had fought and died alongside their Christian German comrades. During the Nazi era they were not acknowledged. Their names were added in 1946.
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Hanging in there
Silent Sunday
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Lens-Artist Challenge asks for things on display. I have often shown beautiful graffiti and murals on display on walls and houses. But simple tags are also on display almost everywhere. I can’t read these, I guess they are proper tags, i.e. names. But I like the overall composition and colours.
The wall originally just featured a quote by the all-round talent and master aphorism writer Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a native of the area: “If you are in love with yourself you have at least the advantage that you will not have many rivals in your love.” The empty space below immediately attracted sprayers who wanted their messages on display, political (F** nazis; F** AFD, an extreme rightwing political party), local about bringing flowers to the suburb, and simple smileys and tags.
This almost looks like an Egyptian script: “Woman, I give you flowers then we move into a house and there will be peace.” Plus a few extra choice words.
This one is easier to read but who is Paul?!
This one is readable, comprehensible, and to some extent understandable: “Beat up fascists!!”
What’s your take on putting your opinions on display like this? Open mind – or …
… on the other side of the extreme?
Lens-Artists Challenge: On Display
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Linguistic Whereabouts
I have never been very patriotic to Germany, nor Baden-Württemberg. But I do feel very close to the Kurpfalz.
Geographically, the Electoral of the Palatinate centres around the towns of Heidelberg and Mannheim. For me it is more a linguistic area than a geographical one. Dialects are on the wane and are less pronounced but they still exist. I hear myself surrounded by Kurpfälzisch.
This is the current coat of arms but the Electorate dates back to the to the Holy Roman Empire, long before it became the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1512, and hence it has changed a lot over the years.
We name ships, restaurants, theatres, wines, beers, and many more things accordingly. Many town crests feature the Palatinate lion and the Bavarian white and blue fusils.
We even have our own excellencies. The wine queen and her two princesses, their titles proudly displayed on the domiciles of the sovereigns.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Surroundings
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A Fixer Upper
The owner was destitute and couldn’t keep up with the upkeep of the house.
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