


The photo of the cormorants is from this week. I observed the seagulls last week. The ships came my way last summer.
The title is a line from Friedrich Schillers drama Wilhelm Tell which is known by every German, I dare say (even if some might not know what the source is): “Durch diese hohle Gasse muss er kommen“. It’s quoted often, sometimes more or less appropriately.

When I saw this sign at the entrance of an old inn I was wondering about the meaning of it.
An old fashioned beer mug. That’s self-explanatory.
Hearts, Diamonds, spades, and clubs. I have placed a few games of Skat in my youth, so I understand that as well.
A Star of David – here it unravels. What does it have to do with an inn?
That’s where research comes in. The hexagram may look like a Star of David but it is the symbol of the Guild of Brewers. And that makes sense, naturally.
That’s where research comes in. The hexagram may look like a Star of David but it is the symbol of the Guild of Brewers. And that makes sense, naturally.

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Water and two people. I included the mural because the curve of the net mimicks the rounded wave line of Cee’s photo. The mural is in Ladenburg and depicts fishermen in Bretagne because the twinned town of Ladenburg is Plouguernau near Brest.
Cee’s Midweek Madness: Pick a Topic from My Photo in February
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“The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The architect and artist Hundertwasser was a well known adversary of the straight line, and hence the geometrical grid. The photos are of the Hundertwasser House in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt.
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