Wood kobolds, acorns and a penguin

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A wood kobold watching over the path and checking who is coming into his domain.

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I should have put a scale next to these acorns – they were carved out of wood and as big as a foot stool.

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More kobolds carved from living trees.

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And a penguin in the making.

Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Tree Art.  Want more trees, more wood, more art?  Click here.

 

Falling in

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“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. “

Diane Arbus

Linked to Travel with Intent.  More photos inspired by the quote  are here.

Archy

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Half a circle peeping over a roof – the full circle sports a star. But it is not a car roof.

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A roof peeping through an arch or through a half circle.

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Through lots of arches in the castle gardens of Schloss Neckarhausen.

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, Curves and Arches.

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Last of the castle windows

at least for the moment.

Litauisches Gymnasium - Schloss Rennhof

This is castle Rennhof in Hüttenfeld.  Built in the mid 19th century in the style Empire, it has been used as a Lithuanian School, the only official Lithuanian school in Western Europe.

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This is Castle Neckarhausen, built and rebuild since the mid 17th century, the last major remodelling happened in the early 19th century in the neoclassicist style.

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And one more time the Baroque style of Mannheim Palace.

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