I know these raised hides are built by, meant for, and maintained by hunters but I wonder – how often do they just sit up there and enjoy their surroundings? Or shoot with a camera?
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Journeyman’s Certificate
His apprenticeship lasted three years, and after passing his theoretical and practical exam Egon could call himself craftsman painter and varnisher. He was qualified.
No Smoke on the Water
Can you see what I picked from Cee’s photo? A house (of sorts), colours: rose and green, a reflection. Missing are the small waves.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: November Pick a Topic from My Photo
Wordless Wednesday
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“And now, We Make the Trip Every Year”
“One cannot resist the lure of Africa.”
said one stork to the others, quoting Rudyard Kipling.
So, off he flew.
to Africa
and then he came back and quoted Ibn Battuta:
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then it turns you into a storyteller.”
Writer’s Quotes Wednesdays: A Trip to Remember
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Leaf Gold
The weather had looked kind of miserable but by driving to higher ground we broke through the clouds and were in unfiltered sunshine. The colour of the trees are just magical against the blue sky.
Which is not all that surprising considering that the two colours are almost directly opposite on the colour wheel:
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
was an essay by John Erskine, written about a hundred years ago. However, although intelligence is a given within certain margins, education is not. There is a moral obligation to educate children to the best of our possibilities and within the margins fo their possibilities.
Johann Pestalozzi lived and worked another 100 to 150 years earlier. He worked tirelessly to educate youngsters and became one of the greatest school and social reformers of all times. He believed that men could only be bettered if they were loved.
In his native Switzerland as well as in Germany many schools are named after him, like this Pestalozzischule where I spend my first four years in the school system.
FOWC with Fandango: Obligation
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Once upon a Leaf
Well, he is fat, he is green, and he lives in a swamp. How much more ogreish can you get?
A Walk to an Unusual Sight
When we meet up with our group on Sundays, we follow a pre-laid trail. Once in a while we encounter a sign spelling SV. SV stands for “scenic view”. This normally signifies a look over a sweeping landscape. Occasionally it might also be an idyllic scene, a pond or a clearing or possibly a monument.
This Sunday it was neither sweeping nor idyllic, it was just odd.
There were wooden figures but embellished with odd toys and artificial flowers and strange artifacts. The wooden figures were stern and bleak, the additions however, were kind of menacing: a doll left in the weather looks scary after even a few days.
It was a really weird place.
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