Spiced up Pumpkin

Another daily challenge for October – Tourmaline’s annual Halloween challenge. I’ve tried to do all the prompts with four friends I’ve picked up in a 1 Euro store (all four for 1 Euro) but it didn’t quite work out. However, they will feature in quite a few of the photos. Today is the first day of the challenge and the prompt is pumpkin.

Run-up to Halloween. First day of October. Pumpkin.

Isn’t It Romantic?

Waldeinsamkeit is a German romantic concept, usually explained as “solitude in a forest”. The poem in this hut, which is dedicated to a former head forester, quotes all the clichés of the romantics’ conception of forest versus town.

It translates (more or less) like this: If you feel too crowded in the town, and too distressed at home, then leave the pressing throng behind and escape into the quiet woods. Allow yourself to settle down here. Calmness and woodland solitude creates peace, and unites once again what keeps the wicked world apart.

But still has another meaning and I wouldn’t be true to myself if I wouldn’t add this:

Is it still there?

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Still

Last on the Card in September

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The weather was nice yesterday and I went to the local botanical garden where there is a small pond. I was in a good mood until I got a phone call that made me pack away the camera and go home. My mood matched the one of the fish, I think.

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I wear one ring and never a necklace. But I do wear earrings. I took the photo to show somebody the new feet earrings and the S.H.I.T.S. brooch I made. In case you are wondering: it means “Saturday Hash in the Summer” (I only wear it when I’m around people who know what it stands for.)

For Brian’s Last on the Card in September on bushboys world.