Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: reflections. For more reflective photos, click here.
Tag: Germany
The five are back
After the summer break, another: Pick a word from Thursday’s Special.
The fortress in Bitche, France. Fortified against the German/Prussian threat to the East.
The statue of Germania looking to French threat to the West.
Personally, I find him much more chic than any political manifest in stone.
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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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.
Look to the south.
Look to the south.
And up the stairs.
Now for spending some money.
All done.
And now home!
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. For more streets, stairs, paths, walkways click here.
It’s better to be a big fish on a big house
I couldn’t match the shiny vintage car of Cee nor the beautiful and stark maritime mural but I found a mural with fish, actually a four storey house with fish.
This was Cee’s given photograph for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:
For more inspired photos click here.
Put trash in its place!
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!]
An equally incongruous place for a garbage container, in the old southern cemetery in Munich.
Not an odd location but an odd inscription: the town’s finest.
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.
Little dwarf sh**ing
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.
Elwetritsche
This fun fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany sports a large variety of Elwetritsche – mythical creatures, supposedly bred from ducks, geese, chicken and woodland imps and gnomes. The artist responsible is Gernot Rumpf. More about Elwetritsche can be found on wikipedia. I’ve posted pictures of their young ones before.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge is asking for fountains this week. For more wet photos click on the badge:
To walk in the shadow of giants
A giant sequoia. In the Exotenwald in Weinheim there are many specimen of these wooldland giants, to my knowledge the largest collection in Germany if not Europe.
For One Word Sunday: giant. Have a look at other interpretations of the word giant on Debbie’s site Travel with Intent.
No more take offs
There once was an American airfield (Maurice Rose Airfield) in the north of Frankfurt. It was used for helicopters and light aircraft. It was given up in 1992 and the area was actively reformed to become part of the Frankfurt green belt, a landscape conservation area. The runway was made narrower but the length of 750 metres was kept.
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