Tag: #FOWC

On the Road

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I’m used to seeing vintage cars, particularly really old ones like this one, at museums or possibly car shows, so I was startled when I saw this one nonchalantly pulling up at a petrol station and being filled up with normal petrol or possibly diesel. BTW: The H, the last letter on the car license plate, stands for “historic” and is reserved for vintage cars (provided they are maintained more or less like the original ) and it has advantages regarding insurance and tax purposes and I also think exemptions regarding emissions.

FOWC with Fandango: Operational

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A Giant Curl

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A typical fern, you might think. A close-up or even a macro, you might think.

It’s not so, this is an angiopteris pruinosa bootfarn – and this is not a macro. Unfortunately I couldn’t use anything for a scale in the greenhouse of the botanical garden but this farn curl about to be unfurled is as big as plate.

FOWC with Fandango: Curl

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I’m Fed up

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In German, if you say “I’m smelling something” as on the sign it means: I had enough of it.

This sign on the “Flowering Bergstraße”, a walk along the slope of the Odenwald starting about 20km north of Heidelberg and stopping just before. The QR codes on the signs tell interesting facts about this area with a rich history. This particular sign tells about the hazards of dog droppings which spoil the grown fruit crops (grapes, berries, espalier fruit) and they do – of course, smell.

FOWC with Fandango: Pungent

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