For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: any kind of camera or photographer. More photos of cameras and photographers can be found here.
All wrapped up
I took a considerable detour to photograph this 500-year-old tower only to be confronted with this:
It wasn’t the first time I had similar luck.
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddballs can be found here.
Innocents abroad
When we came across this fellow, sitting quietly next to the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, an American who happened to be standing next to me, felt the need to inform me – quite patronizingly – that this was a famous American writer and he wasn’t quite sure whether I might have heard of him. I informed him – equally condescendingly – that I had read most everything that Mr Samuel Longhorne Clemens had written (which is not a lie, his collected works in English and German are amongst my most cherished books). I added “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” He recognised the quote and we proceeded to have an interesting conversation about Mark Twain.
For One Word Sunday: celebrity.
For more celebrity shots click here.
Let me lead you up the garden path
In the town where I live there is a garden. At 2.2 hectares in the middle of town, it is a small but wonderfully prolific botanical garden. The different sections and the paths are cleverly designed to give the impression of a much bigger place.
When I was little this was my way to school. I don’t remember that many cars parked there, if any, but the hedge on the right looked exactly like it does today. It was old then, so it is at least 80 years old, possibly close to 200 years old now. What lay beyond – this wonderful gem of a garden – was closed to the public.
Since 1983, after the private enclosure was turned into a foundation, the garden became open to the public. There is no entrance fee and the sights are wonderful at any time of the year.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
For more photos of paths, streets, roads, alleys click here.
For more information on the Hermannshof garden, click here.
OEG: Oh, ewiges Gewackel – O, everlasting jiGgling!
One of the first tramlines between towns jn Germany (as opposed to inner-city lines) was the OEG (Oberrheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft) which ran (and still runs) on a circular track between Mannheim – Weinheim – Heidelberg. Today it is connected to various other tram systems serving the larger Rhein-Neckar-area. Locally, it is still affectionally known as OEG = Oh, Ewiges Gewackel, or O, Everlasting jiGgling, even though the carriages are much more comfortable today. The official name – Linie 5 – has not caught on.
Waiting for the ÖG.
And here she comes. (Yes, this electric train is thought of as female.)
For A Photo a Week Challenge: Public transportation.
More trains, trams, buses, and the like, can be found here.
Consider the birds.
Close up of birds with selective colour. Rooster x3 and a chicken.
Greylag goose and Canada goose.
Close-ups for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More close-ups of birds, people, and things can be found here.
Well, it happened …
In 2015, my husband and I went to the Rugby World Championship in the UK. We saw two games: South Africa vs. Samoa in Birmingham, and South Africa vs. Scotland in Newcastle.
It was an unexpected and unlikely coincidence that we met a cameraman working for the SABC in Birmingham while sightseeing in town, a day before the game. It was quite unlikely that we would meet him again in Newcastle, this time with his whole team trying to catch interesting shots and interviews with fans, again a day before the game. But the cameraman recognised my husband with whom he had talked for awhile privately a week earlier, and so he came to be interviewed by South African television. But it was even more unlikely that a South African friend actually saw the clip, barely a minute long, tucked away in a late-night special human interest slot about the RWC.
But the most unlikely would be if we ever see people dressed up more patriotic than the South African fans on this day. The most impressive ones were the “cross dressers” – fans who combined Scottish and South African elements in their attire:
For The Daily Post: Unlikely.
More unlikely shots are linked here.
PS: Sorry, I can’t get rid of the second lot of picture. They don’t show up in editing mode.
Refuse to sink!
Cee gave me the idea for this entry into her Fun Foto Challenge when she asked for outdoor ways to move up and down: outdoor stairs, ladders, hot air balloons.
I took these photos a few years ago when hiking in the Eifel, a part of Germany to the west of Frankfurt. The balloon came up and then descended in the valley in front of us only to fire up and get another lift.
More photos of outdoor ways to move up and down can be found here.
Frühling – kevät – spring – printemps – lente
Another colour collage for Värikollasit. The colours of the Siberian squill, which in German is called Blausternchen (little blue stars). I happen to have a few in my own garden and they have just bloomed as they are spring flowers.
More collages with the same colours can be found here.
This is the end
Crayola Colour Challenge – week 18
The eighteenth week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
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