I’ve been doing Dale’s bidding looking for shade for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I went looking in my archive – and aye, there’s the rub. The photos in my archive are tagged in German and German doesn’t make a diffference between “shade” and “shadow” … Continue reading Shade Seekers
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry
Here we observe the blue breasted fairywren and the pink robin, both praised for their colourful crests, green and blue respectively. They are sure footed climbers who hop from tree to tree. They avoid flying if they can at all help it.
Another observed wildlife. It’s the immature green-crowned blue breasted roller. This one is technically not below the canopy right inside the canopy.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Under the Canopy
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I somehow don’t believe that art can be only for art’s sake. If it claims to be that it actually says something about ignoring life. And however much art tries not to be about something else it will always be about something in the recipients … Continue reading Art in the hospital
The place named “Deutsches Eck” at the confluence of the rivers Rhine and Moselle, is less nationalistic than one might assume despite the 40m tall equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I accopanied by a woman signifying victory. It’s named after the Teutonic Order, a catholic … Continue reading German Corner
This is the entrance to Burg Wildenstein (a fortified spur castle, around 800 years old, in the south of Germany, the south of the Black Forest, used as a youth hostel today). It’s the only access, more or less even ground with the parking. Innocuous, you might think.
Still fairly harmless from this view. A bridge. The castle is situated on the edge of a steep hillside. So this is really the only access.
This is what it looks from below. And directly below.
It was a unassailable obstacle. The castle walls were never breached.
Except by fair maidens carrying beer.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Over the bridge
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While taking pictures of almond blossoms that have erupted (that’s what it feels like) during the last week I noticed that the trees were buzzing with honey bees and bumble bees. Then I noticed a shadow overhead and I saw a stork flying west. A … Continue reading Not just flora
Christmas roses at the end of their cycle and the last flowers of last year’s season and snowdrops at the beginning of theirs and the beginning of the new flowering year. The Cosmic Photo Challenge: What is flowering where you are?
Just that sometime in February we get don’t get the promise of no cold but of spring. One promise rippling out.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: After the Rain
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I took a walk in January (you can still see the Christmas decoration hanging in the tree) when fresh fallen snow made the whole neighbourhood pretty. Up the street from us is a strange cluster of houses, a small old (but not ancient) half-timbered house, … Continue reading Snow makes everything pretty
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