Old and new

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Worms, a town on the Rhine between Mannheim and Mainz, can trace its origines back to the years B.C. and the citizens were challenged to incorporate old walls and buildings into the modern lay-out throughout the ages.  The town walls we see today were built from the 12th century onwards on foundations dating back to walls of the Roman military garrissn that stood here in the first century A.D.  The big gate to one of the bridges crossing the River Rhine is much newer, and the houses can be anything from a few decades to a few centuries old.

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  More ways, paths, streets, etc. can be found here.

Another Thursday’s Five

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SLIVERED (slivers of wood)
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1 for 2: MUTED + TRAVERSED
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another 1 for 2: CONVERTED + OVINE
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but because it’s so nice: a real sheep

For Paula’s Thursday’s SpecialPick a word: ovine, converted, muted, traversed, and splivered.

More photos of all five words or less can be found here.

Over an alien horizon

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It may be a cliché but snow can change a familiar landscape in a short time, often it happens overnight.

In this case, the arms of a wind turbine just over the hill might possibly suggest an alien structure, and the wary astronaut drudging through the foreign landscape towards an unknown fate.

For The Daily Post: Out of this World.  More otherwordly photos can be found here.

It’s the little things in (wild)life

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A common old garden snail (served on an autumn leave).

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A baby fire salamander chilling in its nursery pond.

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A pollen-feeding beetle not feeding on pollen.  Well, it is also known as a false-blister beetle.

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A common dung beetle wanting to sound more glamourous: Oh, look!  A scarab.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is running a series of challenges with the theme of nature.  This week it’s wildlife photography. More wild lives can be found here.

 

The blue bird of happiness

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This mural, created by Holger Kurt Jäger, adorns the outside wall of a children’s daycare centre. Inside the grounds the artist worked with the children, painting walls and using stencils:

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Another wall was decorated a few years earlier, unfortunately there are spaces for cars right in front.

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Another mural on a Monday, seen in Düsseldorf, Germany, on the outside of a nursery. The artist is Holger Kurt Jäger.

For Monday Mural.  More murals can be seen here.