For One Word Photo Challenge: nature .
Tag: Germany
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.
Go, go! Only twenty more to go!
On Sunday, there is the next Frankfurt half marathon. These are photos from last year’s race.
The roads are blocked off for the runners. Cars and police men on motorbikes clear the road just ahead of the runners.
The front runners are so fast, they are difficult to catch on camera.
Some seem to fly over the surface.
The first few hundred runners take little notice of anything around them, they just concentrate on the road.
The slower runners seem to have a lot more fun, smiling and sometimes even joking amongst themselves.
Some even acknowledge the cheering spectators and groupies on the side of the road.
And just before the end, well deserved nourishment and reward (aka: beer) is handed out to a selected few to help them over the finishing line.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. If you want to see roads and paths and alleys from other parts of the world, click here.
Appreciation
For A Photo A Week, in honour of Women’s Day.
I’ve used the photo before (and the artworks – these are actually two separate installations – have completely different themes). This is what the almost unprocessed photo looks like:
More women can be found here.
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