The Water Tower in Mannheim-Wallstadt

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Built in 1904, it was operational from 1905 and secured the water supply for the independent town of Wallstadt (it became part of Mannheim 1929).

Today these old water towers are privately owned and inhabited. The living quarters are usually downstairs but the top floors are accessible. Imagine sitting up high in your own private tower and overlooking the whole of the Rhine valley, from the hills of the Odenwald to the hills of the Palatinate Forest.

Ironically, I only took photos of the upper storey windows.

Monday Window

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I’m a Fan of Cosmos

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These are not new photos, most of them are from last autumn. I looked at them for a collage for the Sunday colour collage challenge called Värikollaasit in which I participate. And I really thought these flowers needed to be showcased a bit more. For me, cosmos spell homesickness to the South African highveld where they abound in autumn. They are not native to South Africa but came there with contaminated horsefeed during the Boer War.

They look best either from far – just pink and dark and light pink shades over the Highveld, which I cannot have here in Germany – or from close up.

I’m a fan of … #160

A Universe in Pink

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Aino’s colours for today immediately put me in mind of cosmos – cosmos bipennatus – the flowers I know from the South African highveld. They grow in late summer so the green surrounding the pink and white flowers is partly subdued and veers towards beige.

Värikollaasit #322