reminds us that nature can do monochrome on its own.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: nature. More natural, or possibly naturalistic, or possibly non of the above, photos can be found here.
Tag: Fotografie
A new roof
An old bar, old stables, all with a new roof.
For A Photo a Week: new.
New photos can be found here.
And the wheels will always go round and round
At our town’s spring festival (still a long way off) children dress up as garden gnomes, flowers, gardeners to welcome spring.
For the very small children it is often too far to walk so they are pulled in a wagon.
Some find even that too tiring.
And for the grown-up bikes there is this – the sticker (probably the name of a motorcycle club) is a word pun: abwegig can mean “off the beaten track” but normally it is used to mean “absurd”
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bicycles – tricycles – motorcycles – wagons.
More two or tree or four wheelers can be found here.
Great expectations
German children get a cone full of sweets on their first day of school, presumably to fool them about things to come … This fellow clutching his “Schultüte” clearly is anticipating the “Ernst des Lebens”, the seriousness of life, with some trepidation.
For One Word Sunday: anticipation. Looking forward to more anticipatory photos? Click here.
I believe I can fly
Sometimes there are just not enough hours in the day to do all that I want (and unfortunately, must) do. So today, I’ll make a virtue of necessity and I post one photo of a motor that just flitted by – just like my time.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things with engines and motors. More motorized photos can be found at the click (whirr-brrrr-rooom) of a mouse.
Life is better with a Tutu
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
– Desmond Tutu
I cannot let a quote from Desmond Tutu go by without bragging a bit that I’ve had the privilege of meeting the man. He came to the office I worked in during the days when Apartheid was still going strong (at least officially) and I had the privilege to make him and others whom he met there some tea. His then assistant kept flitting around our office saying: “The Archbishop has this, and the Archbishop only likes this, and the Archbishop only has it this way…” The Archbishop himself, though, was (and I guess still is) a charming, unassuming man, kindhearted and full of humour. I remember when he was still relatively new to his title of Archbishop he was seen walking around with a t-shirt sporting the slogan: “Just call me Arch.”
The only photo of this that I could find was on a pinterest site which was not easy to link: https://www.pinterest.de/denisequ57/just-call-me-arch/
Debbie supplies the quote and photo to illustrate it (see it here) and others add their own interpretation.
Brown cow, brown cow, what do you see?
Apologies to Eric Carlé and his Brown Bear for the title.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Farm Animals. More animals on the farm can be found here.
Sea of stones
In the Lautertal, a valley in the southern part of the state of Hesse in Germany, is the “Felsenmeer” or sea of stones. The geological processes which created this natural phenomenon happened almost 400 million years ago, over time erosion laid bare these boulders. Romans quarried them, and there are about 150 work pieces left from these times which were left behind.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: rocks, boulders, stone. More rocky and stoney photos can be found here.
Best of five
I decided to pick only three of the five colours in Paula’s Thursday Special: Pick a Word – golden, pale pink, and maroon.
I still have so many photos of not yet fallen fall leaves and I thought this was as good an opportunity as any to display them.
More colourful photos can be found here.
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