One Word Sunday: Red
Tag: Germany
Summer with the Castles
Weekend Sky
Happy and Healthy
The Valentin-Ostertag-Brunnen in Bad Dürkheim features a putto with a smiling face and armful of fruit – I have no explanation for the tortoise except that tortoises are cool.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Cornucopia
Reliefs of Clerical Life
These bronze reliefs show scenes depicting the Premonstratensians who founded the Cathedral of Havelberg (a town in Brandenburg, about an hours drive west of Berlin) in the 12th century. They are on the outside walls of the cathedral. Not, I think, a very flattering representation: contemplative life, removed from the people; lording over a battlefield, soldiers and skulls, during the Wendish Crusade, a military campaign to crush the Slavs; contemplative life, removed from the people; and feasting on the labours of others in the last. The artist is contemporary Bernd Streiter.
FOWC with Fandango: Relief
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A Garden in Black and White
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Black & White
Tree Trios
Three poplars at the bank of the river Neckar.
Three trees near the Citadelle de Bitche.
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You Can’t See the Water for the Weed
We literally stumbled over (but not quite in) this little pond – the water being barely visible because of the almost solid cover of duckweed. Oh, there IS water under the layer of green. The Orbis pond is in the woods above the town of … Continue reading You Can’t See the Water for the Weed
One Day Asparagus Are Sold Everywhere
In shops, on the side of the road, in farmstalls. In our area asparagus are literally and figuratively part of the local culture. And then, from one day to the other, the stalls are selling red currants, and strawberries, cherries and raspberries – but no … Continue reading One Day Asparagus Are Sold Everywhere
Stressed Trios
That’s what pines may look like in winter here in Germany. However, the second set of pines were photographed in early summer. They show the stress that German forests are under – these particular trees are more than 50 years old and have thrived for … Continue reading Stressed Trios
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