Ragtag Daily Prompt: Chockablock
Tag: Germany
It’s a Snake! It’s a Trunk!
It’s Supertree!!!
Or simply a tree who once was very confused about which direction it should grow.
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Shaken or Stirred, Definitely Shivering
We had it cold two days ago, even a bit of snow, and then it was gone within a few hours. Temperatures are up to 15° C today, I’d call that spring if it weren’t so grey and wet. The rain caught me when I … Continue reading Shaken or Stirred, Definitely Shivering
The Wide and the Narrow in Aachen
Both are examples of Aachen, the city where Charlemagne is buried and where for about half a millenia the German kings where crowned. It took me ages that Aachen is the city meant when the French talk of “Aix-la-Chapelle”. The narrow buildings are near the … Continue reading The Wide and the Narrow in Aachen
Car Windows with Extras
It’s not the car, it’s not even the window but what is reflected in the window. The first one is from Bourg-en-Bresse in France. This is a vintage mercedes from the Carl-Benz-Museum in Ladenburg. A window reflected in the car window. The same window reflected … Continue reading Car Windows with Extras
Sandstone Details
First Sunday colour collage of the year! It’s one colour only and I immediately thought of pink sandstone. It was hard to leave out things, there are so many sandstone buildings in our area hear. Värikollaasit #443
Patterns on a Watertower
The watertower of Straßenheim features very basic mosaic patterns made of bricks.
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They Sing Your Praises
Old River Rhine lies in his watery bed.No need to raise his headAnd this is what he said:On either side I have the best of wine!That’s why I want to be the ancient river Rhine.(German carnival song: Ich hab’ den Vater Rhein in seinem Bett … Continue reading They Sing Your Praises
Unexpected
It was cold and I rushed and when I got home I thought I had missed a blimp or a Zeppelin in the sky when I looked at the last photo on my camera SD-card.
I didn’t. It’s a leaf. Last on the camera’s SD-card.
Our grandkid’s backpack has been lying in front of this sideboard for days (tidying is no one’s favourite around here). And now it has started to sprout fur.
Last on the phone’s SD-card.
PS: I spent the last minutes of 2024 and the first hour of 2025 locked up with my husband and our cat and a bottle of bubbly in our bedroom because Henry wasn’t at all happy about the noise outside. We could eliminate the light effects by closing the shutters but couldn’t completely keep the noise outside. Henry was hiding under the bed while we were toasting the new year. And afterwards I had time to sit a the pc waiting for the youngsters to come back inside (they had gone into the nearby vineyards to shoot off their fireworks).
For Brian’s Last on the Card in December
The Roof Maketh the Tower
The prominent medieval tower of Dilsberg has received many make-overs throughout its century old history. Most recently, a new roof on the tower of the fortress. Ragtag Daily Prompt: New
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