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Ragtag Daily Prompt: Masterpiece
When one thinks of sphinxes one normally thinks of Egypt. But the mythical creatures have settled in different parts of Europe. They often appear in twos.
This magnificent sphinx looks down from the top of the National Gallery in Edinburgh.
This more modern interpretation of a sphinx sits on Victoria Square in Birmingham.
Even more modern is this standing sphinx seen near the lake in Böblingen. Unfortunately, a victim of a bad paint job.
Sphinxes seem to be drawn to museums. This Art Nouveau specimen crowns the cupola of the Wiesbaden museum together with two non-sphinx companions.
And finally, this rather buxom beauty and its twin sit – of all places – in front of a tomb in a cemetery in Heidelberg.
It’s not the shop that’s odd, not the bright colour beneath the old grey stones, not even the skeleton in the entrance or the huge nose with glasses. It’s the sticker on the top of the nose I find odd. Who put it there? And why? Nobody can see it or read it. Was it put up before the nose was hoisted up?
I went to my Edinburgh archives from a single day in the wonderful city and of course, it was Debbie’s oddity that provided the impulse.
Pizzazz (or rather “purple pizzazz”) is one of the crayola colours – and the first year I participated in Tourmaline’s Color Your World Challenge I used this photo of a well-known store front in Edinburgh because it was just the right shade of pink – or possibly, purple.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Pizzazz
The windows above are in Mönchengladbach. The one below from Edinburgh.
Not quite as modern – but terms like “modern” are relative, aren’t they?
Linked to Monday Window.
Counting chimneys in Mainz.
What’s the collective noun for chimneys? A smoke of chimneys? I know that the collective noun for chimney sweeps is sweepdom.
I found counting chimneys much more fascinating in England and Scotland, here in Edinburgh.
How many do you count?
To counterbalance all these huddles of chimneys here is an impressive solitary one.
And what would a post about chimneys be without at least one sweep.
Linked to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Counting Chimneys.
Bay window in a half-timbered house in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Also half-timbered but different style in Michelstadt im Odenwald in Germany.
Still Michelstadt but about a century younger.
A bay window in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the grey-yellow stone typical of the architecture there.
And in Heidelberg, Germany, it’s rather sandstone red.
The newest of the lot. A bay window in white wood near Roker Beach in Sunderland.
Linked to Monday Window.
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