or should I say: Into the slide of things?
“A photo is usually looked at – seldom looked into.”
– Ansel Adams
Two photos inspired by the quotation from Ansel Adams. Have a look here for more photos you can look into.
On the roof, the only place I know
As The Drifters (Up on the Roof) already knew:
“On the roof, it’s peaceful as can be
And there the world below can’t bother me.”
(even though I’m pretty curious about what is going on – I’m still staying on top.)
This is my eighth top square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.
It doesn’t have to be a Christmas tree
It’s an old custom that has been revived during the last years: decorating trees in the garden with Easter eggs.
This works for a larger tree as well as for shrubs and planters.
This tree is adorned throughout the year. Whether by design or because it’s too much of a hassle to take the decoration down after Easter, I don’t know.
And now for a completely differently tree: this dummy tree is in a park and toddlers hang their dummies there when they (or their parents) think they have outgrown them.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pick a topic from this photo.
At the top of the hour
This is my seventh top square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.
Durchblick
The German word Durchblick can literally mean “looking through” but is used more often in its figurative meaning: understanding or being in the know.
And a German proverb to remind us of another important opening: Love, it states (literally), goes through the stomach. In English you would say: The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge: Through an opening.
Windows of a renovated Rathaus
The townhall (Rathaus) of Lützelsachsen was built from 1674 to 1688 and renovated in 1808. And then it was renovated during the last couple of years. And now there are functional windows, old fashioned windows, and modern windows. Decide for yourself if you think it works.
Rathaus
This is what it looked like a year ago or so.
And this is what it looks like today. There is no mayor residing in it anymore since Lützelsachsen became part of the town Weinheim.
And that’s the view from the back with the cars still able to drive underneath the mayor’s former office – with two beautiful windows looking down on traffic.
Linked to Monday Window.
Chinese stachyurus
The Chinese stachyurus is called Japanese stachyurus in Germany, which is wrong because it occurs naturally in China and Taiwan. But I guess it was named at a time when everything further than a couple of hundred kilometres was considered far, and everything in Asia lumped together as exotic.
Linked to Sunshine’s Macro Monday.
rise and look around you
We can still walk if not in groups and the weather these past days has been glorious. So much so that it is starting to freak me out a little; almost too good to be true.
The title is from this song:
On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you’ll see who you are.
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being outshines ev’ry star.
You’ll feel part of ev’ry mountain sea and shore.
You can hear, from far and near,
A world you’ve never heard before.
And on a clear day…
On that clear day…
You can see forever and ever more!
Here is a link to the Barbra Streisand version.
For more Friday Fun: Clarity click here.
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