A schoolyard in Hesse, slightly faded. For Monday Murals.
Tag: Germany
More red wine
Last weekend we went on a “red wine walk”, which is basically a stroll through the vinyards and along the way there are tents where one can sample the local wine (not necessarily red) and a variety of food. At the first station people pay a deposit for their wine glass and keep drinking while they walk, replenishing whenever they feel like it.
The amount of people is quite astounding, even though the weather was not at its best but at least it was dry. And the wine helped to combat weather.
The paths vary from paved tracks to field roads and dirt tracks.
And a lot of fun was had by all. Despite the miserable weather.
More roads, paths, tracks, avenues, and highways can be found on Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
Elke Wolkie has a silver lining
For A Photo A Week. For more clouds click here.
Catching some zzz’s
A very tired porcupine.
They might not be sleeping on the job – but they are sleeping on a bench.
A famous sleeper … or is it?
We have reached the end of Cee’s alphabet quest with Z. More sleepy posts or photos otherwise concerned with Z can be found here.
From straight lines to round vats and clear glasses
I’ve always found the rows of vines in a vineyard with a vanishing point in the distance make good photos. We went on a wine walk yesterday – basically a stroll through the vineyards of one village with tents put up at intervals where one can sample the local wine and different kinds of food. The weather wasn’t great but it least it didn’t rain and the cold was the right incentive to try out the more than 20 red wines on offer (not to mention the whites and rosés). Not that the thousands of people needed much of an incentive!
More links to photos with lines in them can be found on One Word Sunday.
Once a year
No, I don’t mean the traces of the River Rhine in the distance, nor the town of Rüdesheim on its banks, nor the strange totem poles, nor even the old monastery in front of which this guy was kneeling. It’s his back – with the locations of all the German national HHH meetings since 1989 on his shirt. Good times!
This is posted as part of the Thursday Special Traces of the Past, by Lost in Translation.
Chickens aren’t the only ones
The hatchling peeping out of an egg is an Elwetritsch, a mythical creature from the Southwest of Germany. This particular one is part of a fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. If you want to read up on Elwetritsche (apparently they’ve made their way to the New World where they are known amongst the Pennsylvania Dutch as Elbedritsch) you can look them up on Wikipedia.
This is in response to The Daily Post prompt “Egg” – more eggy posts can be found here.
The fabric of exterior art
This storefront is from Schwetzingen, a small town in the southwest of Germany. The shop is selling paints, fabric, and carpeting.
This is for Monday Mural.
A zest for life
I seem to find these more traditional murals around here.
This one – from the old part of town of “Newtown an der Weinstraße” in Rhineland Pallatium, Germany – is called “Phantastische Allegorie zu Neustadt und der Lebensfreude” (Phantastic allegorie about Neustadt and zest for life). It was created by Werner Holz for H. Grübius (both names appear in the picture). I’m not sure about the date, I believe I can read 1990something, the artist died in 1991.
More Monday Murals can be found here.
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