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Tag: #FOWC
A proponent of French German friendship
This sculpture by Tomi Ungerer, called either Aqueduct of Janus or Janus fountain (l’Aqueduc de Janus or Fontaine de Janus), signifies the double culture of Strasbourg, shaped by France and Germany in equal measure. It features a double sided Janus head looking in two directions, west and east.
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Self congratulatory
Last summer we were attending a street festival in Wiesbaden, Germany. Then this happened:
I had to stitch three photos together because of the ephemeral quality of the skywriting.
And here the enhanced photo:
Wiesbaden has fun! (more literally: Wiesbaden celebrates beautifully!)
FOWC with Fandango: Congratulations
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When I was young
“multimedia” meant: a phone (landline), tv and later vhs, a radio, a tape recorder, cinema, a camera, …
today, all that is in a little thing that fits in my back pocket.
FOWC with Fandango: Multimedia
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How to protect them apple trees
Imagine: It’s been spring for a while, quite balmy weather, and all of a sudden one night the temperature drops. You drive to the bakery, everything seems normal except that it is colder than the days before, and then you come across this:
This is an espalier fruit (apple trees) field. The plants, the blooms are covered in ice. On the ground lies frost. But it ends abruptly at the fence and the flowering bushes around are frost free.
Turns out this is an ingenious way to use irrigation. Ice, it turns out, protects the blooms and hence the possibility of them developing into fruit.
Ice covers the twigs, the blooms, the new leaves.
FOWC with Fandango: Irrigation
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Different stages
Strawberries – their development from bloom to green fruit forming, starting to colour, and red and ripe. FOWC with Fandango: Development
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