Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Shimmering
Tag: Bach
Don’t Get Your Feet Wet!
Water, Water Everwhere
The Humble Leimbach
The Leimbach is a small river flowing through Wiesloch in the southwest of Germany. It takes an almost regal turn about 10km closer to the Rhine in Schwetzingen where it circles the baroque Schwetzingen Palace but in Wiesloch it is just a humble stream passing … Continue reading The Humble Leimbach
Compare the Seasons
It’s the same little river, one bridge removed. Water, Water Everywhere
The Bächla in Forchheim
The pedestrian high street of Forchheim has an artificial streamlet running through it. A joy for children at all times, a bane for parents on cold days. Bächla is stream in the local dialect.
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I’m a Fan of the Kanzelbach
The village of Schriesheim, less than 10 kms to the south of us, has a stream running through the village called Kanzelbach. This is not unusual since Schriesheim is built on the slopes of the Odenwald like many other towns and villages along the Bergstraße. Streams descend from the hills, cross the plain and join the River Rhein.
But in Schriesheim they did something special to their little waterway as you can see.
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Keep off the Bridge!
Walking happily along, following our marked trail, we came upon this little brook. There was a small bridge with a sticker “Keep off!” on it.
This looked like a challenge to him:
Actually, to all of us.
Stream on
The Mühlbach flows from the hills to the plain, quite close to our house.
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Water My Blood
How can you not think of Hemingway?
Earth my body. Air my breath. Fire my will. Water my blood.
Small droplets
collecting in puddles and bowls
flowing into streams
and rivers
into larger rivers
and finally finding their way into the sea
reaching from shore to shore.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Water
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