In one of the enclosures in the bird park in Viernheim one comes across this rare exhibit of flightless and featherless specimen. We were astaunded. And wondering about the backstory. The rest of the inhabitants are all of the avian kind.
Tag: Germany
Hoops Without the Hula
Geometric Square #17
Four Monuments and a Decoration Piece
And now for something completely different: Thursday Special: Pick a Colour
Waves at Night
Geometric Square #16
One Circle Does not a Bird Make
Geometric Square #15
I Wanted to Go to University
When I was little I wanted to become a university student. I was growing up near Heidelberg, home of the oldest university in Germany, and I found the atmosphere of the old part of town exhilarating (minus the throng of tourists, of course). I didn’t … Continue reading I Wanted to Go to University
I’d Quote BB
if I hadn’t checked it.
“Where right becomes wrong, resistance becomes duty.” is often attributed to Bertolt Brecht, the German playwright and theatre director and poet but according to research it is not (source: Deutsche Welle).
With the internet and now AI, it becomes more and more important to be conscientious. Even though FB has stopped doing it and other people like Musk and Trump don’t want to have done.
FOWC with Fandango: Conscientious
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The Road Goes Ever Ever on
under meadow green and fallen snow.
(With apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien – no further comment in order not to be long-winded, a fear that Tolkien didn’t know.)
FOWC with Fandango: Long-winded
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His new Hat Was Spotless
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Pristine
Grappling for a Hold
This eagle sitting on a sphere (not a world sphere just a ball) is watching over a war memorial for the fallen of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71. He doesn’t look happy maybe because he was a visionary seeing more wars to come.
Monday Portrait
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