Tag: Germany

Set in stone and wood

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This eagle sits on top of the Frankfurt station.
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I found this horse in a park in the city of Lüneburg.
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This elephant, too, stands in Lüneburg.
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And I couldn’t leave without sharing this half-submerged hippo from the Heidelberg Zoo.

More monochrome statues and  sculptures can be found on Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. Click here.

Do you notice the arch?

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Road near Idstein in the Taunus, Germany
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Under a bridge in Edinburgh
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The gate to the bridge crossing the Rhine in Worms, Germany
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An old archway in Oberursel, Germany

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  This week I found some archways.

More streets, roads, paths, and avenues can be found here.

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The five are back

After the summer break, another: Pick a word from Thursday’s Special.

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FORTIFIED

The fortress in Bitche, France.  Fortified against the German/Prussian threat to the East.

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EMBODIMENT

The statue of Germania looking to French threat to the West.

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CHIC

Personally, I find him much more chic than any political manifest in stone.

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The Alps are also “set in stone” – in this case, the famous Eiger and Jungfrau in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland.

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SUBMERGED

The Rhine burst its banks in Düsseldorf, way back in 2016.

For more photos illustrating the five words, click here.

 

 

 

 

Pedestrian ways

A few days ago I went to town to do some shopping.  At first, there is the walkway from the parking garage to the pedestrian shopping street.

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Look to the south.

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Look to the south.

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And up the stairs.

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Now for spending some money.

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All done.

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And now home!

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  For more streets, stairs, paths, walkways click here.

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Put trash in its place!

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The island of Krk.  In front of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea.  In front of garbage containers. But even that is picturesque. And what time to have a photo of Croatia who later today will play France for the football (soccer) world championship in their first world cup final ever [edit: they didn’t win, but they were in the final!]

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An equally incongruous place for a garbage container, in the old southern cemetery in Munich.

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Not an odd location but an odd inscription: the town’s finest.

Oscar The Grouch from Sesame Street

Just to round off this rubbish collection, here is Oscar the Grouch who lives in a garbage can on Sesame Street.

For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge.  For more oddballs, click here.

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Little dwarf sh**ing

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A fairly large – as dwarves go – dwarf sitting in the woods and … yes, he is doing exactly what you think he is doing.  Just look at his contented smile!

 

For One Word Sunday: dwarf.

Other small or smallish, Lilliputian, minute, diminuitive, petite, undersized, itty-bitty photos are only a tiny click away.