A gingery colour collage based on värikollaasit‘s suggestion:
Work in progress
Inversion. According to the Cambridge dictionary: a situation “in which something is changed so that it is the opposite of what it was before” or “in which something is turned upside down”.
I started out simple. Schoolyard inversion.
Moving on to the animal world. Dragon fly handstand.
Head over heals squirrel.
Why not try it with ordinary objects? Inverted plank.
Tipped tractor.
Overturned reflection.
A vineyard mirrored in a puddle. The first shot is the inverted one.
Linked to One Way Sunday: Inversion.
A ruin must be rightly situated
to be effective. This one could not have been better placed. – That’s what Mark Twain said about the Heidelberg castle.
For Six Word Saturday. More six words and accompanying photo(s) to be found here.
And now for running completely different
We do our fox and hounds running trails every Sunday in winter, every Saturday in summer.
Before we run, we get instructions.
Sometimes obscure, sometimes understandable (to us, at least).
BVFC
We run (or walk) in every weather, every season, every terrain:
And then came – Corona.
Hint: look what it says on the back of his neck!
Our group has run without a break every week for 33 years – come rain or shine or Christmas Eve or Easter Monday. Would we let a stupid *§$%*$!! virus ruin our weekends? Of course not! We kept meeting.
Via zoom. And we had trails. In completely new and innovative ways.
One week we all dressed up in our finest gear, each in the comfort of our own home and we jogged on the spot. At various points we had to answer questions and whoever got them wrong had to do a penance, jumping jacks or squats or the like. For the next week, we ran in our own area, marked the trail in chalk, and documented it with photos. We had adventure quests (like an Easter egg hunt except no eggs but rather little bottles). Another time we ran and each time we came to an intersection we let the throw of a die decide in which direction to continue. And one time we charted our run with a running app and tried to draw a picture (before you puzzle too much: I was not a very good artist but it was fun).
Linked to Friendly Friday: Something new / Something different.
It’s astounding –
Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll.
But listen closely. Not for very much longer. Let’s do the web spin again.
These nests or webs look delicate, yet the threads are surprisingly strong and non-sticky. These are ermine moths, so called because they are white and have black dots. The caterpillars eat all the leaves of a tree or bush, then completely cover it with these webs, and in about a fortnight they will have turned into moths (and the tree or shrub, incidentally, will grow new leaves).
We came across such a spun-in tree today on a hike and I guess they would all be gone if we passed there again in a months time.
Linked to A Photo a Week: Fleeting.
Rainbow old, rainbow new, rainbow borrowed, never only blue
You can catch your own rainbow:
Or wear your own rainbow:
Or paint your own rainbow or photograph somebody else’s:
Stick a rainbow on your window:
Or best of all, get a rainbow as a gift:
Linked to the On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Make your own rainbow.
Time, place, language
Talk is silver, silence is golden. – Even keeping silent is a form of language.
“A different language is a different vision of life “
– Federico Fellini
Towards the end of the 18th century all things oriental were in fashion. The then reigning Elector Palatine consequently wanted a part of his palace ground to look oriental and first had a Turkish garden laid out and then a mosque built, known as the Red Mosque. Now this mosque was never meant as a place of worship but rather as a glorification of a world spirit (as seen from a European point-of-view, a eurocentric vision, culture appropriation as we understand it now and consequently “bad” but very advanced and unprejudiced at the time).
While the mosque itself is a statement in a very specific language, walls inside and outside were decorated with Arabic phrases and their translations. How correct the Arabic writing is, I don’t know. If they came from genuine Arabic sources, I don’t know. There are so many facets of language and understanding and vision in this alone, the language itself, the sources, the presentation…
And to add another vision: I am now working as a GSL teacher, German as second language, which in German is known as DAZ (Deutsch als Zweitsprache).
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the Fellini quote, click here.
Hearing – Hören
Functional ears are a necessary requirement.
The bigger the ears the better?
Ears are necessary for hearing. But listening needs more (and I don’t mean a funny hat 😀 )
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sense of Hearing.
