Wheelbarrows as art: painted on a length of hoarding, and hanging as an art installation, possibly.
Wheelbarrows as miniatures: with pebbles, and with a enjoyable load.
Wheelbarrows being worked hard: by a market stall holder and my favourite little worker of all.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Words ending with a W
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Castle Wildenstein is a spur castle, i.e. a castle built on a mountain peak as a fortification. It was built in the 13th century in the Swabian Alb, above the young Danube. Access is through a high wooden bridge on some spindly looking pillars.
This fortitude against capture would also be a weakness if the (small) army besieging the castle had enough time on its hand (and no one would come to the aide of the beleaguered castle inhabitants).
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Midweek Monochrome
The frog was setting the right tone but could he hit the right note?
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in the ancient silver mines. I wonder if the hardship was really worth it.
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Of course, it gets dark early and light late every year at this time of the year but this December it seems to get to me more than in other years. On some days it doesn’t seem to get light at all. I’ve about had it with this darkness and I’m prepared to dance around a bonfire tonight to appease the gods to coax the sun back.
Do not walk on the ice!
And we all know boys will be boys.
NB: The water in this pond is not deep at all. Nevertheless …
A statue of the Karl Ulrich Nuss at the Domplatz in Ladenburg.
Monday Portrait
Veldenz Castle is in the middle of the town of Nohfelden in the Saarland. We would have liked to climb the stairs to the top of the keep for the view but it was closed for renovations and repairs. The English wikipedia still has photos of the tower without a roof but the cone-type roof was added in 1999 so that wasn’t the reason for the closing. A special company checked for loose stones on the outside of the castle keep.
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