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Dates

119 a

The water  level marked on an old house from a flooding in 1875.

119 b

A mural created by a school class in 2015.

119 c

A keystone with the year 1743 marked out.

119 d

The (most likely) dates of birth and death of Johannes Bückler, better known as Schinderhannes, painted on a house in the area where he used to live as an outlaw and robber.  There are many legends (and five movies) about the man, making him into a more modern German version of Robin Hood which are in all probability not true.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything with numbers on it.  More numbered photos can be found here.

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Wood kobolds, acorns and a penguin

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A wood kobold watching over the path and checking who is coming into his domain.

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I should have put a scale next to these acorns – they were carved out of wood and as big as a foot stool.

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More kobolds carved from living trees.

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And a penguin in the making.

Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Tree Art.  Want more trees, more wood, more art?  Click here.

 

Signs

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The sign of a fire insurance on a house in Brandenburg.  It was founded 1718.

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I saw this sign in Frankfurt.  I thought it was a foreign alphabet but couldn’t find a match.  Then I got up I looked at the picture skew and realised it’s a word: T U M U L T (the same word exists in German), probably the name of a bar.

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I think this alludes to a German saying: The place to which even a king has to go to on foot.

Linked to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Signs.