A Photo A Week asking for white as found in nature. More white photos can be found here.
My head is full of wishes
All the pictures were taken at an outing to a petting zoo.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: heads or facial features (human or animals).
More heads and faces and possibly noses and ears can be found here.
ARE YOU ON the right track?
Paula at Thursday’s Special is asking for the theme way. More directional contributions can be found here.
My home is a castle
I was truly privileged as a child. We lived in a modest house but the back garden bordered the high wall surrounding the castle grounds. In my father’s day this park was off bounds for the townspeople (except on Easter Sunday or Monday, for a couple of hours). Nowadays the park is public and the castle is the town hall. To me, it was always the playground just behind the house.
For The Daily Post where Cheri asked to share a favourite place. More favourite places can be found here.
I can stand the rain –
against my crow –
against my grass –
against my window! (sorry, Tina)
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge of rain and rainbows. More rained on photos can be found here.
Duck duck go
I looked and looked but I always came up with these goslings for Aino’s colour combination in this week’s Värikollaasit.
This is the same collage, without any alienation effect:
So this colour collage is specially for Susu – but I’m afraid, it’s goslings not ducklings.
More collages can be found here.
Language confusion
I walked past a construction site the other day.
The crane and the scaffolding fascinated me – but not as much as the name of the company doing the works:
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddballs can be found here.
Crayola Colour Challenge – week 12
The eleventh week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
How much is a Lothar?
On 26 December 1999 a winter storm or hurricane called Lothar raced across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Black Forest in Germany. The devastation was vast. After clearing up all the mowed down trees, reforestation was tackled but in a particular area in the Black Forest a section of the woods was left untouched so that one could see how nature recuperated if left alone. A walkway was constructed to allow access without damaging the re-growth.
Ten years later one can still see the swath of destruction of the hurricane.
The walkway leading over the small bushes and trees starting to reclaim the soil.
The trees which had been uprooted were left lying where they fell and their roots were exposed to the elements.
We didn’t live in Germany then but we visited the “Lotharpfad” (Lothar path) ten years later. My husband in particular enjoyed the trip as he is called Lothar. He also enjoyed the headline of a tabloid a year later which read: “How much is a Lothar?” with the article tallying up the cost of the storm.
For One Word Sunday with the topic devastation.
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