A rusty sculpture at this winter’s light display at the Luisenpark in Mannheim.
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Threesomes
Three items or the number three, is what Cee wants this week. I only found a boring, plain #3, nothing at all fancy.
A shoot in the forest, its leaves a perfect threesome.
Three matrons, a relief found in on the site of a Roman villa in Germany.
The three parts that make up the coat of arms of Weinheim: the lion of the Palatium, the blue and white diamonds of Bavaria, and the red “wine ladder” of the town of Weinheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Even older, the three arches of the Karolingian Hall of the Kloster Lorsch, a UNESCO world heritage site, it dates back to the 9th century A.D.
No idea what the three scythes are supposed to symbolise, whether it is three forms of death that await the passerby or the hint that the grass needs to be mowed on the roundabout where they stand.
Three nightlife flamingoes, part of the illumination in one of Mannheim’s parks.
And I end with more birds, a threesome that is more of a story – look at those faces and think what has just happened and what is about to happen…
This is linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: three items or the number three.
The sign of the times
I don’t know what was better – the individual attention to each garment (for those that could afford it) or our mass produced wares (but available for the masses). In any case, a lot of our fashion of yesterday ends up here:
It is probably the better option compared to simply throwing used clothes and shoes in the garbage although there are issues with this kind of recycling, too. If I can I rather pass on my no longer used fashion items to an organisation where I know they will be worn in Germany and don’t end up destroying indigenous industries in third world countries. Or I wear them until they fall apart and end up as cleaning rags.
This is linked to One Word Sunday: fashion.
Poppies
My attempt to change part of my lawn into a flower meadow hasn’t been all that successful. No poppies to be seen. So I enjoyed the display of poppies on the kerb of the road in a neighbouring town, and not just read ones.
And there is always next year for my garden.
This is linked to A Photo a Week: flower.
It’s not easy being green
Make way for the fanfare!
It’s not easy being green. Having to spend each day the color of the leaves.
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.
But green is the color of Spring.
And green can be cool and friendly-like.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you!
This was brought to you by the friends of Kermit for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: lawn ornaments.
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Dreadful taste?
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
Pablo Picasso
S.H.I.T.S. stands for Saturday Hash in the Summer (i.e. we hash = run and socialise on Saturdays in summer). This is the tasteful front of one of our t-shirts:
For further viewing, I better add this warning:
These t-shirts have stopped a few passers-by who wanted a closer look:
This one is a bit older, can’t you tell?
And here is hashing explained to more academically minded people:
If you are at all intrigued – look around, there might be some hashers in your area. There are almost two thousand hashes in all parts of the world; they say there are even two organized hashes in Antarctica.
This is linked to Travel with Intent and Debbie’s weekly quotation prompt.
two can play that game
House #2
Another House #2 and 2 lizards
2 leaves in /about to fall
2 grape hyacinths
2 imps, both called Pumuckl, from a German children’s book
The 2 archetypical German rascals (as invented by Wilhelm Busch they became the forerunners of first the Katzenjammer Kids and then of all newspaper funnies).
And the way those 2 look, they might be today’s real-life Max and Moritz.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: two items or the number two.
Up / Down
Who had the better perspective? Me looking down? Him looking up? Did we meet?
For One Word Sunday: Perspective.
Wish you were beer
This unusual view of the part of München called Schwanthalerhöhe is taken from the area which during two weeks in September (sic!) houses the world famous Oktoberfest. The rest of the year most of the Wiesn is a flat, barren expanse packed with gravel. It is situated close to the city centre with buildings on all four sides. A few smaller events use part of the area throughout the year but when nothing is going on it’s just empty space which accentuates the urban surroundings all the more.
For A Photo a Week: urban.
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