Very basic geometric shapes – square, circle, triangle.
And up this radio tower (with inverted colours) you can find the same basics: square, circle, triangles.
Geometry in fashion: Argyle socks.
And finally, making patterns in a completely different medium.
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: geometric shapes.
This is the old bridge in Heidelberg leading over the river Neckar last week. Not completely deserted as the lock down in Germany has been lifted to some degree, was never as strict as in many other countries.
This is what it looks like in normal times, bustling with people at any given time.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The world in lock down.
Dreams adapt, it seems. And become simpler.
Around the corner. A pool. A playground.
The right company.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: My summer place.
A waffle with a kind of marshmallow centre, it was a staple at the kiosk at the public swimming pool when I was little. It has made kind of a comeback on the supermarket shelves, like other nostalgia food. It tastes as artificial as the pastel colours.
A Flammekueche, the tarte flambé from the Alsace region boxed up. It’s not the traditional one with onions, bacon and sour cream but made with olives, pepperoni, and feta cheese. Modern varieties have become fashionable in German beer gardens during the last few years.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Food as Art.
Natural symmetry.
Man-made artistic symmetry.
Man-made architectural symmetry.
Bird-made symmetry.
Wishful thinking symmetry.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry.
The German word Durchblick can literally mean “looking through” but is used more often in its figurative meaning: understanding or being in the know.
And a German proverb to remind us of another important opening: Love, it states (literally), goes through the stomach. In English you would say: The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge: Through an opening.
I had planned something else but then just after lunchtime – this:
Our normally quiet street (except for rush hour times) but at the moment due to the almost lockdown extremely quiet street exploded with fire engines and sirenes and police cars and ambulances and animal rescue and animal cadaver collection cars and blue lights. A house barely 200 m away from us had caught fire. We only saw smoke as our house stands a bit back from the road and we did not venture outside. I was curious, of course, but I always get angry when I hear of people gawking at accident scenes etc.
When we thought that the firefighters were all gone we went for our daily fresh air intake and we came upon the scene from behind. They were dealing with the last pockets of embers. The ambulance had set up tents to deal with smoke inhalation victims but it turned out they weren’t needed. The residents were out and the animal rescue just swooped up two dogs and two cats, apparently none for the worse. No animal cadavers needed to be removed. Luckily nobody suffered any physical harm but the damage to the houses is estimated at more than 200,000 Euros.
The firefighters had to go inside the neighbour’s attic in order to reach the actual fire. So now we can look inside the neighbour’s attic, inside the roof framework of the house in question, and inside the burnt shell of the second storey.
For Cosmic Photo Challenge: Inside.
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