This is looking up in the dome of the Red Mosque in the castle grounds in Schwetzingen, Germany. This mosque was build in 18th century and never intended as a place of religious worship, rather as an expression of the time’s fascination with all thing oriental.
For One Word Sunday: circle. More circular, round or rounded photos can be found here.
Another series for Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of road, streets, avenues, paths, can be found here.
Trains and tracks for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges. More trains and tracks can be found here.
An outing to Rüdesheim, where the
Rhine flows through the valley and
on both sides steep vineyards rise
up – and one ends the day
with a good meal together with
friends and a glass of wine.
Or two. Or three. Or more.
For Six Word Saturday. More six word musings can be found here.
There was this pond covered with water lilies, one about to be born like Venus of the watery foam, a nascent life form. Nearby lilac flowers looked like an abundance of writhing snakes pullulating in the bushes. This made me hungry so I went to the famous Viktualienmarkt in Munich with its hundreds of stalls selling victuals of every kind. A car passed by – and I wondered if a nut feels maternal towards bolts, after all in German they are called “Mutter” which means “mother”. And I was back at the pond where a frog pondered reflectively about his eye glancing up at him from the water and he completed the circle quoting “Consider the lilies!” from The Life of Brian.
For Thursday’s Special – pick a word. I’ve picked 5.
To have a look what others made of the challenge, click here.
… I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like.
Need I say that the lyrics are from Queen?
For Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge. More oddball pictures can be found here.
In our local forest the sign posts direct you to the different exotic species found. Three sequoia varieties are there, the coast or California redwood (Küstenmammutbaum), the giant redwood (Riesenmammutbaum), and the sequioadendron giganteum (Urweltmammutbaum). One of the unique features of the Exotenwald Weinheim is that not only a few specimen were planted but whole hectares of one kind. When the arboretum was started around 1870 almost 1500 sequoias were planted, most of which survived and are now tall and majestic. With the exception of the Urweltmammutbaum, said to be a living fossil and only discovered in 1941 – but there are a few of those as well, planted in 2011 and apparently thriving.
Many of the paths are wide and well maintained, perfect for a stroll rather than a hike.
But it is fun to leave those and turn down (or up) narrower
and darker paths.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of paths, ways, streets, avenues, or alleys can be found here.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge about flags or banners. More patriotic – or not – photos can be found here.
For One Word Sunday: angle.
It was an odd angle to take the picture. The building has many angular features. And the whole building has a strange angle to it: it is the only accredited Lithuanian secondary school in Western Europe. Subjects are taught in German and Lithuanian. The building was formerly Castle Rennhof (in Hüttenfeld near Mannheim, Germany) until the school moved there in 1954.
More photos with angles can be found here.
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