Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: smooth. More smooth photos can be found here.
Tag: Germany
Come blow your horn
No, I’m not Frank Sinatra but feel free to take your pick. The choice of horns is yours:
The sign of the hotel “Adler-Post” in Schwetzingen.
Less ornate but rich in contrast, the restaurant “Post” in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
A mural in Bensheim – night watchmen carried a lamp, a hellbarde, and a horn.
Passing on the knowledge to the next generation.
A magnificent set of horns on this he-goat.
And a more whimsical set of horns on this cow,
A horned theme for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. More horny photos can be found here.
I am watching you …
from a the distance …
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: in the distance.
More removed photos can be found here.
Feeling blue – in a good way
I don’t know if that exquisite blue flower was the blue flower of the romantics but it could be. It can be found next to fields (hence its common name “Wegwarte” in German, which could be translated as “watcher on the path”) but Common Chicory has practical applications in ersatz-coffee making.
In the blue yonder with a blue balloon.
The side entrance of the restaurant known as “Blue Monkey” (“Blauer Aff“).
For One Word Sunday.
More blue photos can be found here.
Rising from the ground like a skyscraper
Frankfurt and its business and banking district is the closest we come to skyscrapers in Germany. No comparison to really high buildings the world over but impressive enough if you walk around them on ground level and look up.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: unusual perspective.
For more perspectives, click here.
A displaced giant
Cedars were not really winter hardy in Germany (this might be changing, unfortunately for the overall climate), so large, old cedar trees are exceptional. The oldest and largest cedar in Germany is found in Weinheim, in the southwest. It was planted around 1720, has a width of 27 metres, a height of 23 metres and a trunk circumference of 5,20 metres. Over the years, it had a number of visits from tree doctors and so far, it is going strong even though it has suffered from the dry summer this year, as have other old trees in the area. For years, there was a toy rocket stuck in its upper branches, the loss of which pained me greatly.
Here it is on the left, with the tower of the castle (now the townhall) in the background:
For One Word Sunday: old. More old photos or photos of old things and possibly people can be found here.
Sea of stones
In the Lautertal, a valley in the southern part of the state of Hesse in Germany, is the “Felsenmeer” or sea of stones. The geological processes which created this natural phenomenon happened almost 400 million years ago, over time erosion laid bare these boulders. Romans quarried them, and there are about 150 work pieces left from these times which were left behind.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: rocks, boulders, stone. More rocky and stoney photos can be found here.
She flies by her own wings
I almost missed this challenge – A Photo a Week Challenge: Things with wings – so I looked at all the entries so far and I won’t even try to compete with all the gorgeous birds, and bees, and butterflies.
And to round it off here is a German car number plate. I like that sometimes the letters make actual words. It helps if you live in Wiesbaden (WI) but really sucks for people living in the Börde area (WZL) – formerly Wanzleben (“here there be bugs”).
For more wingy things, look here.
It’s not perfect but it is better
for the environment. Individual transportation is comfortable but often not the best solution. In Germany, public transport is called ÖPNV = Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr, and always a topic of conversation.
A train pulls into a Munich subway station.
Same train, same station. Stationary but with selective colouring.
Night time stop for an intercity bus in Germany.
And finally, shades of things to come: public transport in miserable winter weather.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with public transport as theme.
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