I am probably misquoting but since I have forgotten who has written something similar I think that’s okay. It’s me playing with words then.
Linked to Nancy Merill’s A Photo a Week: Sun and Water.
Tag: #aphotoaweek
Hold on!
I’ve used up all my expressive, hard worked, baby soft hands for other challenges but I still have this in my archive:
And I’m pretty sure I’ve shown this before but it’s too good not to use – it is from a restaurant in Chodovar in the Czech Republic. All the toilet seats had different sets of hands painted on them. No comment.
Linked to A Photo a Week: Hands. For more handy photos click here.
New cat in town
Not even a year ago, we got a new kitten. Henry wasn’t quite new but our house was new to him and everything was exciting and worth observing to him.
New things can tire a little cat out, so once he was sure it was safe, he fell asleep.
He’s grown since then and even has his own blog (being a cat he has staff so he doesn’t write it himself).
For A Photo A Week: Something new. More new photos or photos of something new can be found on Nancy Merill’s photography site.
🎻Runners in the wood! 🎼 Tradition!
It started with somebody saying: “Wouldn’t it be nice to do a hash-a-thon?” We call a run a hash, and a hash-a-thon is 42 km. The trail consists of four separate trails of approximately 11 km, give or take a few hundred meters, and spread out over a whole day with breaks in between. Participants can – if they really really want to – run all 4 legs. Or, they can run only 3 or 2 or even only 1. We are a diverse group so each one’s ability is accommodated. And sticking together and having fun together overrules any competitiveness (which is in any way punished at the end of the day, usually by having to drink a beer, with or without alcohol).
The participants come from the south of Germany, from Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and Kaiserslautern. One group organises a location (usually with a suitable campsite close by) and each group plans one leg of the run. We’ve been doing this for the last eight years, so I guess it’s now a tradition.
For A Photo a Week: Tradition where you can find more traditional photos and photos of traditions.
Bronze
When I think of bronze I imagine it as a polished, smooth metal but often bronze sculptures are anything but smooth. This statue of the Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author Martin Mordechai Buber in Heppenheim an der Bergstraße shows the foliated texture and how this fosters colour.
Linked to A Photo a Week: texture.
Comfort food
While not really dinner, it’s food. This might be almost pure sugar but it is also comfort food coming with lots of memories: it was the staple diet at the public pool during summer in years gone by.
But I want to show something healthy as well, here are some carrots:
For A Photo a Week: What’s for dinner.
On the brink
… and it’s just about to drop!
And now for something completely different. This photo is from the South Africa vs Scotland game during the Rugby World Championship 2015 (one of the only two international matches I have ever been to). It’s really not fair to post a photo from a rugby match for this topic as you can just point the camera and something is happening. But I thought I’d share this tender moment between Francois Louw and Schalk Burger just before a line out (at any other time, this gesture might have been misunderstood):
Linked to A Photo a Week: Timing is everything.
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