The title is a line from a song by Le Loup called Look to the west.
More sunsets and sunrises can be found here: The Daily Post: Rise/Set.
Tag: Germany
Up where we belong
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of roads, paths, highways, forest adventure trails … can be found here.
My home is a castle
I was truly privileged as a child. We lived in a modest house but the back garden bordered the high wall surrounding the castle grounds. In my father’s day this park was off bounds for the townspeople (except on Easter Sunday or Monday, for a couple of hours). Nowadays the park is public and the castle is the town hall. To me, it was always the playground just behind the house.
For The Daily Post where Cheri asked to share a favourite place. More favourite places can be found here.
Crayola Colour Challenge – week 12
The eleventh week of Tourmaline’s colour challenge: Colour Your World.
Other people’s colour photographs are linked here.
How much is a Lothar?
On 26 December 1999 a winter storm or hurricane called Lothar raced across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Black Forest in Germany. The devastation was vast. After clearing up all the mowed down trees, reforestation was tackled but in a particular area in the Black Forest a section of the woods was left untouched so that one could see how nature recuperated if left alone. A walkway was constructed to allow access without damaging the re-growth.
Ten years later one can still see the swath of destruction of the hurricane.
The walkway leading over the small bushes and trees starting to reclaim the soil.
The trees which had been uprooted were left lying where they fell and their roots were exposed to the elements.
We didn’t live in Germany then but we visited the “Lotharpfad” (Lothar path) ten years later. My husband in particular enjoyed the trip as he is called Lothar. He also enjoyed the headline of a tabloid a year later which read: “How much is a Lothar?” with the article tallying up the cost of the storm.
For One Word Sunday with the topic devastation.
Running on green
Memories of a St Patrick’s Day are necessarily blurred. I remember it was fun … And so will be this year’s – even if the Main in Frankfurt won’t be running with green beer, we will be running on beer (and it might even be green).
For more Paddy’s Day entries on A Photo a Week, have a look here.
Do high walls also make good neighbours?
Kirchheimbolanden, a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, has restored their town wall dating back to the 12th and 13th century. It has a walkway (as it did when it was built), with an open construction looking over the old part of the town, and loop-holes facing outwardly.
For Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past.
Mathilde or Marianne?
This mural tells a story from the time of the German revolutionary upheavals 1848/49. It can be found in Kirchheimbolanden opposite the old town wall. Unfortunately, it has fallen into a state of decay and urgently needs reparation works.
This is the mural seen from above, standing on the town wall.
A detail with Mathilde Hitzfeld (a young woman who fought on the side of the revolutionaries for freedom and democracy), almost like a German Marianne (the symbolic figure of the French Revolution).
The state of disrepair can be seen with this singular figure, a few metres away from the mural, missing hand an all.
For Monday Mural. More murals can be found here.
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