If you are my size you photograph many things from the bottom. Best to embrace this quality!
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: From an unusual angle
Tag: #CosPhoChal
Hail Sol Invictus!
For Saturday’s Ragtag Daily Prompt I posted a photo of the Roman villa rustica which was found and the foundations excavated near our town about 40 years ago. I realised that I didn’t have many photos of the site so I made the 2 km trip and took some more yesterday afternoon.
This is a view of the small temple at the back of the house. As far as I know it is not known what god or gods were worshipped here but the timeframe (first to third century AD) and artifacts found in the Roman city of Lopodunum (Ladenburg) nearby suggest that it might have been Sol invictus.
So in honour of his longest reign this year:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Midsummer
Water Flowing Up
Double inversion: positioning and colour
A fountain:
A tapid’s dripping nose:
A swan after dabbling:
A mini icicle:
A fountain in the woods:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Inversion
Meeting on the Rhine
There is no coast closer than a 5 hours drive from here. But a one hour drive at the weekend got us to Mainz on Saturday, very close to the place of the confluence of rivers Rhine and Main (despite the spelling, they actually rhyme).
Besides seeing friends again (how we had missed that!) and running and walking and chatting, we saw ships going by. Sometimes two of them meeting in the middle of the river.
It quietened down towards evening, and then HE came along:
The HE 7 is the patrol boat of the Hesse river police, stationed in Wiesbaden.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: On the Coast
The Colours of Summer Start Fluttering by
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Here Comes Summer
Of course, some people don’t have to wait for it. They are living in summer (or German, Sommer) all year round:
A Pocket Full of Posies
My husband got a beautiful bouquet of flowers this weekend (not from me, though).
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Freestyle
Einhard’s Basilica in Steinbach
There are not many buildings left from the Carolingian area in Germany. The most famous is the Lorsch Abbey near Worms in the Rhine Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site. The basilica of Einhard, about 40km to the east, is less well-known. This is a model on the site.
Einhard, who was amongst many other functions at the court the biographer of Charlemagne, had the basilica built in the early part of the 9th century and endowed it with relics, probably in order to make it into a centre of pilgrimage. His plans did not come to fruition and the relics were removed to Seligenstadt in the North. Other clerical buildings of the time were renovated and modernised throughout the century whereas this basilica was left mostly in its original state.
Imagine approaching this building at a time when most buildings were hardly higher than a man!
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Buildings of the Past
I need my greens
I don’t seem to be the only one enjoying my greens. I’ve never seen so many people in the woods as today. Even the tower seems to astounded.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: My Green World
You Are Right Here
At the end of the day you need a place to lay your head
and then this happens:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: At the end of the day
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