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For A Photo a Week: siblings.
More siblings can be found here.
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One whole century
Living in Germany it would have been indeed easy to find a building that is not only 100 years old but several hundreds. Close to my hometown, they found the foundations of a Roman estate dating back to the second century AD. But I decided to show the Wachenburg, one of the two castles overlooking Weinheim an der Bergstraße, in Germany. It looks like a Romanesque castle (the roof received new tiles a few years ago) but it is little over 100 years old. The main buildings were constructed between 1907 and 1913 by a Corps of former students (more information on these student fraternities can be found here) to serve as a memorial for members who had died during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 and a location for their yearly meetings. Family lore has it that my grandfather worked on the roof gutters as a young tinsmith.
For the A Photo a Week Challenge: over 100 years old. For more old photos click here.
Bah – bah – white sheep
For A Photo a Week: livestock. More animal photos can be found 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.
You can make me see orange
A Kniphofia flower
and the real thing.
Orange is possibly my favourite colour. I also really like red hot pokers, tritomas, poker plants, Fackellilien (torch lilies), Kniphofias or knofflers – whatever you want to call them. How could you not like such a brilliant flower with such names!
Nancy over at A Photo A Week wanted to see some photos displaying orange. More orange photos can be found here.
A grain of confusion
When I came across this field last summer, I was thoroughly confused. The grain was black and I wondered if it was diseased and ruined, yet besides the black colour the grains looked healthy.
I was fascinated.
I asked a friend of mine who is a miller by profession and was told that it was emmer wheat, one of the oldest grains cultivated, and that this variety was called Persian black emmer wheat. Confusion cleared up.
For A Photo a Week Photo challenge: state of confusion. More confused photos (or photos by confused photographers) can be found here.
Threesome, twosome, flysome
Nancy Merill at A Photo A Week asked for mismatched sets. Can you spot which one is the odd one out?
Find the lack shee… seagull.
And some more birds. Spot the odd one out:
A Photo a Week: one of these things. More mismatched sets can be found here.
Lookit! Daddy!!
For A Photo A Week. More fathers and daughters can be found here.
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