Get lost!

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2006 vanishing a

I didn’t want to swear, it’s just that I would like to get lost in this picture.  It is from a two-dimensional light installation in a local park – I wouldn’t mind exploring up to and beyond the vanishing point.

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This, on the other hand, is a most boring vanishing point: a school hallway while the exciting stuff is happening behind the doors to the left.

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On a forest path, the logged trees create a vanishing point perspective – just before they will be vanishing, hopefully to make furniture and not just wood pellets for heating.

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Asparagus sleeping in the soil under plastic blankets.

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And the best vanishing points of all can be found in vineyards (and possibly orchards).

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vanishing or leading lines.

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I’m a fan of hearts #1

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When I decided on hearts as the subject of this week’s “I’m a fan of …” I didn’t realise how many hearts I do have on file.  So I decided to split the post. I tried to sort the photos thematically, chronologically, by colour – then I gave up.  The simplest solution: This week’s hearts are in landscape format, next week’s will be portrait.

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Let’s start off with a “hearty welcome” because

Adventure is calling

“adwenture” is calling.

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Ugly, untidy, but a heart, nevertheless.

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A heart for gardening in general, and bees in particular.

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A heart for a Seffrican braai, or an Australian barbie, or a French grillade.

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Elephants have hearts, too.

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A heart for Ulm, a town situated between Bavaria and Swabia.

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A rusty heart and

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and a heart drawn in chalk proclaiming the love of veal cutlets.

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A heart and it’s murky reflection during a light show.

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A very elusive heart – no snow this year.

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More light-hearted hearts.

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And finally bleeding hearts (I always feel as if I’m swearing when I mention these flowers).

Linked to I’m a fan of …  For more fanatical photos, click here.

 

Windows from Schifferstadt

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Schifferstadt is a town on the Rhine near Ludwigshafen.  The old part has many half-timbered houses dating back several centuries – many are restored or are in the process of being restored.

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Traditionally, these houses show the contrast between the dark brown or black wooden beams and the whitewashed mortar pieces in between.

 

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Sometimes these colours are offset by colourful, often red, shudders.

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Green is also a favourite, for shudders as well as for window frames.

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However, in recent years more and more half-timbered houses have started to sport a coat of paint, ranging from soft pink like the one below to really dark or bright colours.

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Often the panels are accentuated with two-tone coloured paint.  The writing on the beam reads: Joseph Maier and his wife Katharina built this house in the year of the  Lord 1835 (Dieses Haus erbaute Joseph Maier und seine Ehefrau Katharina im Jahre Christi 1835).

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Blue is a fashionable tint for half-timbered houses these days.  It goes well with green climbers and red geraniums.

Linked to Monday Window.  For more windows, click here.

 

To print, to publish, and to brew

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Where would we be without books?  Where would books be if Johannes Gutenberg hadn’t invented movable letters?  Probably not in a very different position than today.

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No, this is not Gutenberg but Peter Schöffer.  An early collaborator of Gutenberg who scholars today think was more than an apprentice but quite essential in the devolopment of book printing and publishing.  The wikipedia article in German on him is much more detailed than the English one but for what it is worth if somebody is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sch%C3%B6ffer

This statue stands in Schöffer’s hometown of Gernsheim, about 50km south of Mainz, where Gutenberg lived.  And as an aside: I like his legacy. It’s a very tasty beer!

And the connection to culture and alcohol is never far away in a wine growing / beer brewing area.  Rheinhessen advertises this on the cable car, pure and culture rhyme in German.

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Linked to One Word Sunday: Culture.

 

 

 

One, two, three, … many!

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Counting chimneys in Mainz.

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What’s the collective noun for chimneys?  A smoke of chimneys?  I know that the collective noun for chimney sweeps is sweepdom.

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I found counting chimneys much more fascinating in England and Scotland, here in Edinburgh.

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How many do you count?

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To counterbalance all these huddles of chimneys here is an impressive solitary one.

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And what would a post about chimneys be without at least one sweep.

Linked to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Counting Chimneys.

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Geome – try

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Königshalle

Hexagons.

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Hexagons and lines.

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The front of the gatehouse of the 9th-century Imperial Abbey of Lorsch in Germany.  It’s one of few completely preserved buildings from the Carolingian area and is a UNESCO heritage site.

And now for something completely different:

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I found this but cannot find the source:

geometry, the process:

  • geometry
  • geomecry
  • geomewhy
  • geomebye

For Cee’s Black &  White Photo Challenge: Any Kind of Geometric Shape.  For more photos of geometric shapes, click here.

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