Nancy from A Photo a Week has asked us to take a look at our neighbourhoods. This is mine:
look up the street
look down the street
the neighbours to the right
complete with an old stone wall.
More views of bloggers’ neighbourhoods can be found here.
Tag: Germany
Clinker
This building is what is left over of a mill built in the late 19th century. It was built in contrasting brickface and looked and still looks striking – now with trees growing from the walls.
The bricks of the chimneys, although rectangular in shape, were laid round.
The window panes are long gone after several generations of youngsters have used them for target practice but the contrasting brickworks still peek through the trees.
Close by are other houses in clinker brick.
The chimneys are square though in the newer buildings
as are the cellar windows.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: bricks and stones.
Not getting lost in a crowd
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
JRR Tolkien
More photos inspired by the LotR quote can be found linked to Travel with Intent.
Many wine growing regions in Germany (and I guess elsewhere as well) organise a “Weinwanderung” – a walk of several hours through the vinyards with many stops along the way offering wine tastings and food stalls. These events have been growing in popularity and there are usually thousands of people on the way.
Most of these “wine walks” are during summer before the grapes are ripe or after the harvest in autumn but some are also organised in winter.
Cold weather doesn’t seem to deter anyone.
And nobody is forced to do the whole length – there are buses who collect those who’ve had enough of walking or of wine. So nobody gets lost.
Two castles
My whereabouts – after being away for 3 decades I am back home.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Whereabouts.
No pane windows
Hexenturm in Weinheim
Burgruine Königstein
More Burgruine Königstein.
Also Burgruine Königstein.
For Monday Windows. More window shots can be found here.
Lining up
My final square photo for this month of lines&squares with children lining up. Or is it bloggers already lining up for the next month of squares soon?
Linked to Lines&Squares: #31 in October.
The stories behind
“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.”
Henry Miller
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the Miller quote, click here.
Lake lines
Linked to Lines&Squares: #27 in October.
Energetic lines
The gasworks in Neustadt an der Dosse in Brandenburg – this is one of only two plants of this kind still standing in Europe (there is one other in Greece). The plant was built in 1904 and damaged little during WWII so that it was put into operation again in 1947. The gas produced from coal was used for street lights and heating. Operations were stopped 1980. It was declared a technical monument and converted into a museum. What made our tour of the complex so interesting was that the two men who showed us around used to work there 40 years earlier when it was still in operation.
Linked to Lines&Squares: #28 in October.
