Cherry blossoms
My helper was interested in my new bauble.
Linked to A Photo A Week: Just for fun.
Tag: #aphotoaweek
Limited contact walking
We can’t go far because of the rules for social distancing (which is a misnomer, really, physical distancing would be a better name for it) but we are allowed out of the house to go for a walk or to go shopping. We can go for a walk in the company of persons from the same household. So we combined grocery shopping and driving a small distance to go for a walk in the local woods. The trees are still bare and the ground is covered with brown leaves from last autumn but looking a bit closer one can find the first fresh green leaves and also flowers, in this case heath violets, pilewort, and wood anemone. I’m not quite sure how the grape hyacinth got into that part of the woods but there it was.
Linked to A Photo a Week: Changing Seasons.
red, ripe, spoilt
Linked to A Photo a Week: Red.
Old, but not ancient
It’s difficult to see the building that is only about 100 years old in this photo. The ruin of castle Windeck in the middle is approximately 1000 years old, the tower on the far left, part of the old town wall, is several 100 years old. But the castle, called Wachenburg, right on top of the Wachenberg is pretty exactly 100 years old. The building was started in 1907 and completed in 1928.
It was meant to look like a medieval castle.
And althought the overall effect is just that, close up it looks just a bit too well preserved.
It was commissioned by a convocation of fraternities of students and they still have meetings up there.
If there are not there, it is used as an event location with a restaurant, and in summer beer garden.
Linked to A Photo A Week: 100 years or older.
but first sleep
I’ve used this group before. It’s a sculpture of, I think, eight sleepers. There is space to sit next or opposite them but I don’t think living people can really relax close to them.
This is part of a group depicting the night in the garden Gethsemane when all the disciples fell asleep while Jesus prayed.
The way animals sleep, one can only be envious.
And what do turtles dream of?
Cats of course, are champion sleepers. This one slept next to a busy road and had made this flower pot his own. A potted cat, so to speak.
It doesn’t look comfortable but it must be – at the moment this is our cats favourite place for a snooze.
And this picture is – for me – pure bliss. Falling asleep while reading a book … without the dummy, for preference though.
For A Photo a Week: Sleeping.
Eye-eye-eye-yah-eye …
Hey, Kermit! you lost something there!
Demure and bristling, at the same time.
Baby’s got blue eyes.
Eyeing you, eyeing me.
What am I seeing?
And now it is over to you!
Linked to A Photo a Week: Eyes. More eye shots are here.
Lots of angles from three different angles
The central building of the Leuphana university in Lüneburg, Germany, designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind, was completed in 2017.
Linked to A Photo a Week Challenge: Three Angles.
Sparks will fly!
Working so hard that sparks will fly!
Arbeiten bis die Funken fliegen!
Linked to A Photo a Week: Work. For more workers doing their job, click here.
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