Today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt is “knockers”.
Yes, I know, … I can’t help it, apparently.
Here are the other kind of knockers:
Weather Beaten
< I’ve updated this post fafter checking it on my mobile phone. Apparently because of the lay out only one photo was displayed. >
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a Topic from my Photo
Wordless Wednesday
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Liquid Gold
Goldfish actually looking golden.
A dog drinking from golden pond.
According to the legend Hagen threw the treasure of the Nibelung in the Rhine. Sometimes at dusk it seems to glow beneath the waves of the river.
Given the right conditions, even a small rivulet can look gilded.
A moorhen has escaped from its golden cage, it seems.
Golden artificial light reflected off the surface of a small pond.
Golden moonlight reflected off a large ocean, off the east coast of England.
Dummies and Wellies
Not the best of photos, not the best of locations – but a rather interesting use of embellishments.
A Passion Play
This doesn’t go without the story to explain why I chose the gospel song rather than the Whitney Houston song.
When we moved to Zimbabwe in 1995 I heard of a planned passion play in honour of the 100th anniversary of St John’s Highschool in Harare. I am not religious but I really wanted to be part of a huge outdoor theatre production. Casting was already completed but I thought if I spoke to the director I might still get the fourth Jewess on the right or a similar part as an extra. As it turned out, the director offered me the job of assistant director and it was a wonderful experience. Within hours, I met 300 new people, 200 actors and 100 backstage crew, as well as 2 police horses, 4 donkeys, 9 goats and 2 camels, called Stoffel and Stella, on a working visa from South Africa.
The title of the passion play was “No greater love – a passion play”. It was videotaped and I cherish it to this day.
On a (very funny) side note, we took the tape with us to Germany and it got stopped at customs. We were suspected of importing forbidden pornographic material from darkest Africa. The customs officials must have misread the term “passion play” (although it’s the same word in German) in connection with “love”. After a few days we were allowed to collect the tape and it was handed to us without comment. Somehow I imagine a very red-faced censor who stopped the control screening after the first few minutes when Jesus came walking into the school grounds / Jerusalem leading a donkey (he wasn’t riding the donkey – but that is another story).
See the Stones? It’s the Sea of Stones.
The Sea of Stones in the Lautertal is a magnificent natural wonder of the Odenwald. There is geological explanation and a mythical one about two giants hurtling stones at each other.
And just to make sure that you do not think I am showing you close-ups of some pebbles, let me add something for scale:
More from Schloss Fürstenau
A couple of weeks ago juxtaposed the new and old parts of Schloss Fürstenau in Steinbach. Here are some of the windows from the various buildings.
The clear cut classical lines of the new palais with the black and gilded lattice look perfect with the white walls offest by the grey frames (I have no idea what the colours originally were).
Dormer windows jutting out of the slate tiled roof and the wide bay window in sandstone.
My favourite windows are the skew ones in the old part which are on the outside of a staircase.
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