Too Big to Dust

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That’s the crest on top of the huge wine vat in the cellar of the Heidelberg Castle – not the BIG vat, though, but quite big. And it’s dusty. FOWC with Fandango: Dusty

More Poppies

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This could have been One Word Sunday: Red for Debbie, this could have been a red square for Becky’s Simply Red, but it is a colour collage for Aino’s Värikollaasit #457

Not a Bully

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I had the word “Bulli” (no typo) in yesterday’s post. Actually here a Bulli is a VW transporter, the first few models to be precise. This one is a panel van or delivery van, a Bulli nevertheless. This is a younger model, still the same … Continue reading Not a Bully

Reliefs of Clerical Life

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These bronze reliefs show scenes depicting the Premonstratensians who founded the Cathedral of Havelberg (a town in Brandenburg, about an hours drive west of Berlin) in the 12th century. They are on the outside walls of the cathedral. Not, I think, a very flattering representation: contemplative life, removed from the people; lording over a battlefield, soldiers and skulls, during the Wendish Crusade, a military campaign to crush the Slavs; contemplative life, removed from the people; and feasting on the labours of others in the last. The artist is contemporary Bernd Streiter.

FOWC with Fandango: Relief

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