





Another lot of Monday Windows. More windows can be found here.

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.

against my crow –

against my grass –

against my window! (sorry, Tina)
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge of rain and rainbows. More rained on photos can be found here.





Pick a Word for Paula’s Thursday’s Special. More interpretations can be found here.


Another 4 years squared and then it will be 14 years squared since the square hole was left in this wall, a place to put a square window in.
This is for A Photo a Week, and more square photos can be found here.


Darkness and Light for Paula’s Thursday Special. Go and check out other’s interpretation of the theme.
The title is a quote from the discworld novel Thud! by Terry Pratchett.

And what a view that is! Tomorrow it will be exactly two years that I first visited my friend in her apartment. It looks out on the lighthouse of Roker Beach in Sunderland. The middle frame would make a perfect picture.
Other windows can be found here.