Frankfurt and its business and banking district is the closest we come to skyscrapers in Germany. No comparison to really high buildings the world over but impressive enough if you walk around them on ground level and look up.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: unusual perspective.
For more perspectives, click here.
Cedars were not really winter hardy in Germany (this might be changing, unfortunately for the overall climate), so large, old cedar trees are exceptional. The oldest and largest cedar in Germany is found in Weinheim, in the southwest. It was planted around 1720, has a width of 27 metres, a height of 23 metres and a trunk circumference of 5,20 metres. Over the years, it had a number of visits from tree doctors and so far, it is going strong even though it has suffered from the dry summer this year, as have other old trees in the area. For years, there was a toy rocket stuck in its upper branches, the loss of which pained me greatly.
Here it is on the left, with the tower of the castle (now the townhall) in the background:
For One Word Sunday: old. More old photos or photos of old things and possibly people can be found here.
In the Lautertal, a valley in the southern part of the state of Hesse in Germany, is the “Felsenmeer” or sea of stones. The geological processes which created this natural phenomenon happened almost 400 million years ago, over time erosion laid bare these boulders. Romans quarried them, and there are about 150 work pieces left from these times which were left behind.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: rocks, boulders, stone. More rocky and stoney photos can be found here.
I almost missed this challenge – A Photo a Week Challenge: Things with wings – so I looked at all the entries so far and I won’t even try to compete with all the gorgeous birds, and bees, and butterflies.
And to round it off here is a German car number plate. I like that sometimes the letters make actual words. It helps if you live in Wiesbaden (WI) but really sucks for people living in the Börde area (WZL) – formerly Wanzleben (“here there be bugs”).
For more wingy things, look here.
for the environment. Individual transportation is comfortable but often not the best solution. In Germany, public transport is called ÖPNV = Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr, and always a topic of conversation.
A train pulls into a Munich subway station.
Same train, same station. Stationary but with selective colouring.
Night time stop for an intercity bus in Germany.
And finally, shades of things to come: public transport in miserable winter weather.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with public transport as theme.
Click here for other bloggers’ public transport photos.
Impressions of the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, Germany, for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More photos of flowing waters can be found here.
Nancy Meryll was asking for a series of photos from above and from below of the same thing for A Photo a Week. These photos were taken in Neustadt an der Weinstraße at the festival of the wine harvest. From the top of the ferris wheel one has a great view of the festival, the town, and the whole area. And from below it’s a structure of metal beams.
Check out other bloggers’ contribution to this challenge here.
For One Word Sunday: Earth. More earthy photos can be found here.
A bridge across the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, for A Photo a Week. More bridges can be found here.
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