Tag: #aphotoaweek

It’s an uphill battle

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One of our running groups trails last year. If you are wondering why there are different people going up to people coming up it’s because I was somewhere in the middle. I could take shots of the front runners from below and of the stragglers from above. And the victorious four where in the middle.

Linked to A Photo a Week: Action in series.

Hats, hats, hats

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I thought I’d start with local traditional hats – the tricorn of the town’s dignitaries and the simple round hat of the ordinary men.

Modern hats are sometimes less but often just as stylish. And talking of accessories – sometimes a hat is not enough, it seems.

And a hat doesn’t even have to fit, even in the case of magnolias. And the tower carries the name of his hat: Blauer Hut. Blue hat, you wonder … the challenge this week is called “hats off” and the blue slate hat came off several hundred years ago.

Linked to A Photo a Week: Hats off.

Treasure of the the Silver Lake

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The title is the title of novel by Karl May (Der Schatz im Silbersee) which generations of Germans have read in their youth. It was the first one of a series centering around two main characters, the German born traveller Old Shatterhand and the “noble savage” Winnetou, an Apache chief. When the story was turned into a movie in the early 1960s it was filmed in Yugoslavia, in the area around the Plitvice Lakes. A holiday there is for many Germans a holiday with their childhood fantasies.

Linked to A Photo a Week: Vacation memories.

The education of the youth

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I was very much in awe when I climbed those stairs for the first time. For the next four years I went through those doors almost every single school day. My primary school teacher was Fräulein Höfler and I have never forgotten her. If I try to picture her, I can only do so with her smiling.

Pestalozzi-Schule in Weinheim

The title of this post is written over the door, it’s part of an aphorism by the Swiss edcuaton Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: “Gott zur Ehre, der Jugend zur Lehre, der Gemeinde zur Freude dien’ dieses Gebäude” (This building should be used to glorify God, to educate the youth, and to please the community.)

Linked to A Photo a Week: Nostalgia. More nostalgic photos can be found here.

The Red Tower

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I was out on my bike tonight at around sunset and caught the Red Tower with the wide Rhine valley behind it just at the right moment. It is one of three still remaining towers which were part of the town wall of Weinheim.

Linked to A Photo a Week: Tower.