I’ve never seen a rainbow like this. It appeared yesterday afternoon while I was out and about with friends.
The smile hung in the air for at least 15 minutes.
Who knew that Mother Nature could paint like that?
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art by Nature
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Our corner of Germany is usually a bit earlier with spring, so the very first signs – crocus, wild plums, storks returning – have already come. But on Saturday I went for a bike ride and I saw the first hares of the year.
I left them at this point. Privacy, and all that. Spring is well on its way.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The first signs of spring
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The museum of Michelstadt, a medium-sized town in the Odenwald, has a small, newly renovated museum. One section is dedicated to a rabbi, talmudist and kabbalist, known as Sekl Loeb Wormser or Rabbi Jizchok Arje who lived in Michelstadt, Frankfurt and Mannheim from the mid eighteenth century until the early nineteenth.
He took his family name from the fact that his ancestors came from the town of Worms, about 60 km to the west on the Rhine.
The Mannheim Palace from two different directions, and in two different media.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Picturing the Past
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As I’ve stated before, I am not a sunrise person. So when I actually do photograph a sunrise I’m going to milk it for all its worth.
(Please click on the image.)
After all was said and done, the Kleinwalsertal looked once again like this:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The returning of the light
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We live in a house that was built less than 10 years ago. A new house then – our neighbour’s house – not so much. It was a farm house but by the time we moved in it wasn’t active anymore. This is the view from the street, our seven apartment house in front on the left, the old house at the back to the right.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Out of my window
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Shades of grey – from almost black to almost white, veering towards blue or violet, and more towards brown or light beige.
The shades are taken from birds’ plumage. Any guesses which one is the hadeda, the heron, the duck and the cockatoo (there are two cockatoos)?
The heron, the hadeda, the duck and the cockatoo. And a cockatoo who said: “Forget this grey stuff, I get me some yellow.” And then he blushed.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shades of Grey
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No winter wonderland.
Yet undeniably winter in the woods.
And then – another walker spotted.
But he is not alone.
Then the inevitable happens.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Woodland Winter
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The very first picture I took in 2022:
It looks dangerous! The drop – which I didn’t photograph because I didn’t want to lose my place in line to have my vax status checked – was less than 50 cm. Or possibly, it was meant for the children playing two metres to the right of the sign:
Contemplating the danger of falling flat on my face with every new endeavour (and the very large possibility of the actual fall being much larger in my mind than in reality) I decided to go back and rather post something symbolic for a fresh start.
Newly fallen snow. The beckoning of a new dawn.
And now I’m really tripping:
Make it a good one!
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Starting Afresh
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