👀 UP
👀 DOWN
👀 SIDEWAYS
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Up, Down and Sideways
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Not necessarily in that order. But often exactly in that order. I forgot to mention there were also tents involved, and fire (with lots of smoke). And there were dogs. Definitely dogs. The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Life in Black & White
harvest is close.



But for all that there is something much more important.
As summer fades, the Rugby World Cup begins:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: As Summer Fades
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… up up in the sky!
I had no plans on taking part in any challenges next week. We have a very excited grandson here who is waiting avidly for his holiday with his dad and his grandparents beginning on Sunday. There will be a lot of firsts for him: first time going south, first time at the seaside, the Mediterranean in fact, first time in a non-German speaking country (except for a short weekend with a border hop to France), and the first time on a plane.
We will be leaving Frankfurt – flying over the only city in Germany who has something akin to a skyline.
Our plane will probably not be as colourful as those two:


Since we will be inside it doesn’t matter.
We will be up in the air, leaving only a jet stream behind.
Which may look like this if the virgin passenger can’t stop wriggling excitedly in his seat:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Sky Is the Limit
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This was our goodie bag from last weekend except that I have the t-shirt in a burnt orange and a turquoise blue as well. The weekend which these items represent was so much more than the parts – sunshine and rainbows and a little bit of rain (and the weather forecast had promised almost three solid days of rain), and very hilly trails amidst the vineyards with gorgeous views of the Rhine and the Loreley, and wine and beer and cocktails and food and snacks and music and party to our hearts’ content – and most important: nice people quite a few of them friends, old and new ones. The youngest hasher was 8 months old and thus just 90 years short of our oldest hasher. And fun was had by all.
And as I promised to Bushboy: that will me be quiet about hashing for quite some time. After all the stress of organising 270 people, I can think again about other things now.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: More than the Sum of Things
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and I’m going to miss it this year.
The town will be ready.
And that’s the view from somebody who has sampled the local wine, and mixed it with local beer, and possibly local schnapps.




The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Festival Special
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