This is one of more than 200 figures and faces on the Fastnachtsbrunnen (carnival fountain) in Mainz. Mainz, together with Cologne, is the stronghold of German carnival and this fountain is an hommage to the fifth season of the year.
Monday Portrait
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Burg Schönburg above the town of Oberwesel in the Rhine Valley is today a refined hotel (we stayed in the not-quite-so-refined youth hostel next to it – we had the better view!). Maybe the castle would look a little less hotchpotch if they had used a greyish brown stone? In any case, I love the flag.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Hotchpotch
A variation on Friedrich Schillers song from his drama Wilhelm Tell: “How smiles the fair lake” and a folk song by Heinrich Pfeil: “Still likes the lakes”.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Stillness
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RED and also green I thought I had to add to geriatrix’ Ampelmännchen (the little red and green men on a pedestrian traffic light). The ordinary, everyday pictograms on German traffic lights are fairly boring, so boring that I never took a picture of them … Continue reading More pedestrian lights
I had just lain down for a Sunday afternoon siesta when a horn blared in the street outside. A HUGE tractor followed by floats with local clubs, kids on foot, cars with this year’s regional wine dignitaries and more tractors (all with horns), interspersed with … Continue reading (Not so) Silent Sunday
I haven’t found any uglier corners here in Ludwigshafen than in other cities in Germany. This is the view from the Berliner Platz, the public transport hub with busses, trams, and trains intersecting towards the church St. Ludwig. It’s been edited with the Meta AI “paper” filter.
Tourmaline’s October Daily Share Challenge #3
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The leaves of sumac trees are the earliest to turn red.I took this photo a few years ago in September in the Luisenpark in Mannheim, a rather large park which was the site of the Bundesgartenschau in 1975 and again in 2023, This is a biennal horticultural show which changes venues. My photo is from before 2023 in the “old” park but I don’t know how much the lake was changed for ’23.
Festival of Leaves 26 Week #1: Early Autumn Reflections
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Sometimes there is a reason that the road less travelled is less travelled, particularly when you are travelling on a bicycle. Nevertheless, next to the road there is always something to discover. The Cosmic Photo Challenge: An Autumn Walk
