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Tag: Germany
2 of 1 kind
Two crows
Two black-eyed susan blossoms
Two leaves left on a twig
Two towers in the historic part of Heidelberg
Two horns
Two handmade dolls, both of them called Pumuckl.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Two of anything. Check out other people’s contributions.
Football fan graffiti
A second entry in the Värikollaasit colour collage challenge. Check out what others have done with the colours provided by Aino:
Bay windows
Bay window in a half-timbered house in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Also half-timbered but different style in Michelstadt im Odenwald in Germany.
Still Michelstadt but about a century younger.
A bay window in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the grey-yellow stone typical of the architecture there.
And in Heidelberg, Germany, it’s rather sandstone red.
The newest of the lot. A bay window in white wood near Roker Beach in Sunderland.
Linked to Monday Window.
Two-castle-city
My hometown Weinheim is known by the epithet Zwei-Burgen-Stadt. The appearance of the two castles in the distance, one ancient and one fairly modern, with the adjoining and quarry was always a sign to me that I would be home soon.
Wachenburg to the left and Windeck to the right seen from the banks of the channelled arms of the Weschnitz, a small river flowing into the River Rhine about 30km to the east.
The Windeck is around 1000-years-old. It was built as a fortress to safeguard the assets of the Imperial Abbey of Lorsch.
The Wachenburg is only around a 100-years-old and was built and is still owned by a student corps.
The expansion of the quarry was finally stopped when a citizens’ group went to court and forced the closure of the enterprise. The twist in the tale is that around 1900 the whole hill (consisting of a relatively valuable form of porphyry) was sold to a community about 10km to the south in exchange of agricultural fields and hence, our town was more interested in preserving the hill with the Wachenburg on it than the quarry company who had plans to erase the whole hill. But sanity prevailed and since the operations have shut down nature is reclaiming the quarry with several species of animals rediscovered that had disappeared from the area (a large species of owl amongst them).
We are so proud of our two castles that we even sell a cookie cutter in the shape of the silhouette.
For One Word Sunday: home. Have a look what other bloggers consider their home.
I’m a fan of … power cables
Apparently. Sometimes overhead power cables can make a shot, they become the focus. Sometimes it is possible to avoid power cables cutting through a picture by changing position, even if it means a minor to major detour. But sometimes these options do not exist or, more often than not, the picture will just change too much and not the one I saw before noticing the power lines. I do take the shots but the photograph will languish in the archive. So here are some photos with power cables where I wish there weren’t any:
Linked to I’m a fan of … #42. Have a look what are bloggers are fans of here.
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