




I was very tempted to use the heading “twindows” – but I didn’t 😉
Linked to Monday Window.
For K’lee’s challenge this week (cosmically circular / cosmically square) I found windows which have both square and circular elements in them and then played around with them. The untempered photos can be seen on Ludwig’s Monday Window.
For more cosmically photos of squares and circles and what have you – click here.

but no panes of glass.



Linked to Monday Windows. For more windows, with or without views, click here.
at least for the moment.

This is castle Rennhof in Hüttenfeld. Built in the mid 19th century in the style Empire, it has been used as a Lithuanian School, the only official Lithuanian school in Western Europe.


This is Castle Neckarhausen, built and rebuild since the mid 17th century, the last major remodelling happened in the early 19th century in the neoclassicist style.


And one more time the Baroque style of Mannheim Palace.

Linked to Monday Window. Check out more windows here.

Linked to Simply Snaps – Simply Out of the Window.

Two windows from a half-timbered house in Michelstadt im Odenwald. These days, this style of architecture is often redone in colour rather than in the customary black/brown and white but I haven’t seen one in terracotta hues before. Here is the whole house (as often is the case, difficult to photograph because they stand in narrow streets):

Linked to One Word Sunday: window.

Linked to Simply Anything.
In this part of the Odenwald, house fronts are often covered with wood shingles. In the old part of Michelstadt, they stand side by side with half timbered houses. I don’t know what the original colours were, but this one looked incredibly pretty in powder blue and white, the white flowers giving it almost a monochrome look.

Nancy is asking: “Have you ever walked pass an opening in a wall or barrier and suddenly an amazing view opened up?” for A Photo a Week.  I woke up to unexpectedly closed windows in our garret flat some years ago. But we persevered and we managed to free them partly from ice and snow and were greeted with this:

(Please imagine some sunshine to improve the view.)
For more unexpected window shots click here.

For A Photo a Week: neglect.
For more neglected photos, or photos of neglected things, click here.