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:
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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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. For more streets, avenues, paths, roads click on the badge: 
I kind of got lost yesterday (not really but I had a hard time of finding the my car again). Luckily I had my camera with me and going through the photos I found four that would go with the Pick a Word challenge from Paula at Lost in Translation.
Here I was still on track. The gentleman saw me taking pictures and shouted and cajoled me until I had snapped him up. He told me afterwards (after he’d crossed the road and we started talking) that only on the hottest days of the year would he go to the shops dressed like this.
Then I drove into the Odenwald with its beautiful scenery, parked the car and a few hills later I didn’t remember in which forest clearing I had left it.
I came across this pond and for a moment thought I caught a lizard baking in the sun fully expecting the animal to disappear in the water with a splash. It didn’t.
What a beautiful little flower, it truly reminded me of a bird.
Little wonder that I didn’t find anything remotely related to marine considering that the Odenwald is the German mountain range that is furthest away from any saltwater body.
My little envisaged stroll of 15 minutes fresh air had turned into a two hour hike, with so many ups and downs that it was quite strenuous. I’m not sorry, though.
For Lost in Translation: Pick a Word in July.
For more splashy, feathered, scenic and canicular photos, possibly also marine ones, click here.
Saint Florian is the patron saint of fire fighters. One often hears the above saying following his name, literally translated it means:
Spare my house, burn down another one.
This statue of the saint, appropriately placed in a fountain, stands across the old fire station in Munich.
This old marker used to stand in front of the fire station no. 2 in Frankfurt:
whereas this modern fire fighting truck is part of the fleet of the Weinheim fire brigade.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. For more photos of fire prevention like fire fighters, fire brigades, fire stations click on the CB&W badge:
A few years ago I came across this sign in Frankfurt. I found it intriguing and yes, odd. I had no idea what that animal, if it actually is one, was supposed to be. I’ve since seen a few more signs with the same creature in different poses, unfortunately I don’t always carry my camera.
Yesterday – finally! – I found out the story behind it. The creature was sitting happily on a pedestrian bridge crossing the river Nidda.
And a sign beneath it proclaimed it to be the GrünGürtel-Tier.
This is a play on words which needs to be explained: Gürteltier is a actually an armadillo but literally a belt anmial, Grüngürtel is the greenbelt surrounding a city for urban recreation, hence this is the GreenBelt Animal. Rather whimsical, I think.
Here is some more information if you are interested but only in German: https://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=4132 .
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddball photos can be found here.
