As beautiful as the light was it was somehow disheartening that it was still the middle of the afternoon. But we are going nauszus, a dialect word for “we are going towards the light again”. Cellpic Sunday
As beautiful as the light was it was somehow disheartening that it was still the middle of the afternoon. But we are going nauszus, a dialect word for “we are going towards the light again”. Cellpic Sunday
Cellpic Sunday
Cellpic Sunday
We were out with our running/walking group in vineyard country and we were ambling a bit more than usual and we were additionally slowed down by a Glühwein (mulled wine) stall in a farm yard and it gets dark early and we ended up near … Continue reading It Was A Couple of Nights Before Christmas
We stayed overnight at this hotel in Frankfurt because we didn’t want to drive home after the first Christmas party of the season. Standing outside I looked up – and noticed the incredible blue sky after a cloudy week. For tomorrow the forecast is for more clouds and possibly some more snow.
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and lots of other stuff you wouldn’t want to sleep on. I couldn’t resist the clutter found in this shop, inexplicably named, and the added clutter of the reflection in the window. Cellpic Sunday
I don’t normally use my cell phone for photography except for classroom purposes (homework, tests, attendance lists and the like) but I’ve been so mixed-up lately that I managed to take not two but three empty camera batteries along on our last outing.
But have a look – is this photo really from the era of cell phones? It looks vintage, doesn’t it?

King Ludwig I. of Bavaria built a classicist villa above the village of Edenkoben in the Palatinate (part of Bavaria in the mid 19th century) and below the castle ruin of Riedburg. The villa offers a panoramic view across the Rhine Valley to the Odenwald on the other side of the river. In 1954 a chair lift was built to the top of the hill. The pamphlet proclaims that the chairlift is technically up-to-date but the newest thing we could find were the “please wear a mask” Corona warnings which were stuck to the masts. The seats looked decidedly prehistoric, and kind of unsafe, and a bit rusty. But there has never been an accident in 67 years and apparently, the modern technical side is hidden behind the scenes.
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