but every second Thursday in September this siren on top of our village town hall together with other sirens in Germany is tested. In addition in my hometown they might be tested on one Saturday a month. I’ve never heard them sounded in seriousness, not … Continue reading I Don’t Want to Alarm You
Looking for my photos to find something to post for “rock” and “circle” I realised for the first time that I had taken the same piece of art on two separate occasions. And I think someone didn’t realise that this was supposed to be art. … Continue reading Surprise Find
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Bridges
I wrote last week that Bavarian window seem to be all about shutters but that seems not to hold true for downtown Bad Tölz. I saw a lot of painted window frames. The blueish grey house has the inscription Bader, i.e. barber-surgeon; the cream coloured … Continue reading Painted Window Frames
English “folk” and German “Volk” (as in Volkswagen) are not identical but the meaning can overlap.When education for everyone became a concern for governments, i.e. in the 19th century, the German states started schools for the people or Volksschule. This sign is from the Feudenheimschule in Mannheim, built like many schools at the beginning of the 20th century.
I spent last weekend in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, in the town of Bad Tölz. On our walk up to the Kalvarienberg my camera battery gave up (and my spare was back at the hostel) and I had to resort to using my … Continue reading The Joy of Living
Admittedly this was last weekend’s sky but it was more or less the last sky I saw since then having been holed up in our apartment to nurse the stinking cold I brought back from that glorious weekend. Weekend Sky
In the middle of Wiesbaden in Germany, on an open space surrounded by trees, there is a wedge. No explanation that I could find. Just a wedge. Art, no doubt. — I used the internet and found out that there are similar sculptures to be found in Wiesbaden. One of them by Rolf Nolden, simply named “Keil” ( = wedge) but I could not ascertain that this is the wedge I photographed.
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The local castle on the hill goes by the name of Windeck (i.e. windy corner). Monochrome Madness
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