

12 more word:
Twas me. I really like eggs.
Hence the staff bought styrofoam eggs.
Six Word Saturday
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Originally a tradition in Frankonia (the northern part of Bavaria) the tradition to decorate fountains with coloured eggs has spread to other parts in southern and south-western Germany.
Aletta is showing off oddly coloured eggs for her tenth square today. She has included an explanation about chicken egg colours – however, bright blue, red, yellow, orange and green was not explained. I’m sure the chicken would find these colours odd. They probably also think some odd thoughts about the bunny who takes their eggs each year only to distribute them to children.
Color your World: Vivid Tangerine
An egg is a promise, by definition.
Before:
and after:
Surprise!


And sometimes, the surprise may even be bigger:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: New Life Emerging
He tried to get away with the eggs but it turned into an egg roll.
I hope you all had as happy an Easter weekend as is currently possible.

Linked to Sunhine’s Macro Monday.


The hatchling peeping out of an egg is an Elwetritsch, a mythical creature from the Southwest of Germany. This particular one is part of a fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. If you want to read up on Elwetritsche (apparently they’ve made their way to the New World where they are known amongst the Pennsylvania Dutch as Elbedritsch) you can look them up on Wikipedia.
This is in response to The Daily Post prompt “Egg” – more eggy posts can be found here.