I keep coming back to this room for its view. It’s in Sunderland overlooking Roker Beach with the Roker lighthouse in the back.
Directly on the beach is a different window – the way marker for the C2C route which is a cycling route from coast to coast, or sea to sea, from Workington in the west to Sunderland in the east. It is shaped like a camera aperture – a window we are all very familiar with if we use (or have used) actual cameras.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: A Room with a View
We were at the zoo over the weekend. The brightest animals were the flamingoes.
For the PPA Challenge I photographed a few kitchen gadgets. This is Tom, the tea bag holder.
Every day I am passing the local cemetery on my way to and from school, and every day I sneak a peek over the wall and there are four different colouring watering cans hanging next to the tap.
And then, the orchids are flowering.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Drain the Colours
Warped selfie (in case you’re wondering: I’m reflected in a horn, a musical instrument).
Sunglasses – a refleciton on yourself.
Somebody cleaned the window!
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Reflection
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
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
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
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 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:
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