The benches in our local botanical garden.
Tag: Germany
It Will Do in a Cinch
Those are the bike repair stations on the new cycle highway near Frankfurt. It has shelter, tools, a stand and air – better than your average private garage workshop.
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Looking Back
My last photo on the camera SD card. Jubilee orchard in Kronberg.
Once upon a time general advice forums were going strong on the internet. In 1996, the greatest of them all was created by three computer science students: wer-weiss-was = who knows something. I joined pretty early on and the site was a source of knowledge, of friendly discussions and comeradery. You could find help on almost every topic if the users didn’t know the answer they could point you in the right direction to do further research. In those first years we had a great community, including a chat which was my go-to when living in Saudi Arabia. We had a large meeting in Frankfurt in 2006, the 10th anniversary of the forum. That’s where I got the cup.
This was the highpoint. And in many ways it was downhill from here on. The site was sold (and sold and sold again) and the new owners (a publisher, an advertising company, etc.) wanted to make it BETTER and BIGGER and destroyed the site in the process. They chose to ignore the users who knew how the site worked and what made it unique and successful. Step by step, they destroyed the unique structure and the archive, and more and more of us left. I think it still exist somewhere,
And a couple of days ago I dropped the cup and it broke. Finally.
Sorry, these are more words than I usually add but for me that it is the finaly step in a grieving process. I have a consolation, though, and those are the friendships from that time that have lasted, some now for 25 years.
For Brian Bushboy’s The Last on the Card in November
Being Led Astray
My walking companion and I lost the rest of the group as well as the trail markings. When we saw this muddy path in front of us we decided to turn around and find a better way.
We turned into this path and ended up with the others again. But – the muddy path was the right way, we learned.
PS: Our shoes were the cleanest.
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Breathless, yeah!
Weinheim, my home town, has given itself the monniker “The Two Castle Town”.
This is the Wachenburg, the younger one of the two, about 100 years old, built by student fraternities.
This is the Windeck, the older one, about 1000 years old, built to strengthen the influence of the abbey of Lorsch.
There are paths leading up to either, the choices are roads and paved paths as well as small, narrow footpaths through the woods. The latter are steeper but more fun to walk.
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Long Tall Louie
The people of Darmstadt put their first Grand Duke on a really high pole. A really long one. They loved him so much that instead of calling him by his official name Ludewig I they call him “Langer Lui” (Long Louis) still today.
Here is slightly closer look of Lui.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Long Items
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Stream on
The Mühlbach flows from the hills to the plain, quite close to our house.
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The Gold between the Trees
When you go walking on Wiesbaden’s Neroberg there is no way you’re going to miss the Orthodox Russian church. You are walking through the woods and suddenly you round a corner and you’re hit with a flash of gold!
And because this is squares I could not leave without sharing the pair of tights one of our runners was wearing:
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A Power that Directly Influences the Soul
It was so grey yesterday, I thought I needed to get some colour in my pictures and in my soul.
The location was in Wiesbaden in front of the Russian-orthodox church on the Neroberg, one of the hills that the capital of Hesse is built on.
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
The church, the view over Wiesbaden, the foresters’ machine at the back and the woods where we came towards the site.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: One location
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