Even poets have clerks

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at least the rich ones.

This is Bligger von Steinach, as depicted in the Codex Manesse, the beautifully illustrated songbook of German courtly songs in the middle ages. He was a noble who resided in Neckarsteinach in the 13th century but his fame came from his Minnelieder, his songs of courtly love. If the picture holds true he dictated his works to a clerk rather than stain his own fingers. I took the photo at the Starkenburg above Heppenheim which is today a youth hostel and pictures of the Manesse Handschrift decorate the hallways.

FOWC with Fandango: Clerk

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Mixed Messages

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This building in Forchheim was originally built in the 19th century and has always served as a restaurant. It was originally called “Blaue Glocke”, or Blue Bell, and the bell should call for patrons and invite them in. The doors, however, seem forbidding and exclude customers. While researching what kind of a building this is I found that the last restaurant enterprises weren’t very successful – makes one think, doesn’t it?

FOWC with Fandango: Exclude

Withywind

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or old man’s beard or virgin’s bower or evergreen clematis or traveller’s joy – either way and definitely MY joy! And I can’t help thinking of the river in the Old Forest in Lord of the Rings, the Withywindle.

For Bren’s Floral Friday and Cee’s Flower of the Day