Six Word Saturday
Six Word Saturday
We have these narrow stairs in our town called “stairs to hell”. Come our annual town festival and it is fitted with a slide. And you can slide down. There are cushions and they are needed. When we were kids we went on this slide … Continue reading The Chute to Hell
FOWC with Fandango: Onion
As appropriate as the sign may be – I’ve never noticed it during summer. So I’m wondering if the authorities wait for the first snowflake of the year to whip it out of storage. I hope that the deer know where they are supposed to … Continue reading Winter Streets
I normally look at the prompt, then knock my post together, and only then look at the other entries. Today, I saw Pat’s post and I couldn’t help but posting the above circulating structure. FOWC with Fandango: Circulate
In the western part of the Odenwald, close to the Upper Rhine Valley, is a stone run, approximately 2 km long and 100 m wide. It is known as the Felsenmeer, the sea of stones. It was created through spheroidal weathering and is one of … Continue reading The Rocks of Reichenbach
Apologies to The Windows, sorry: The Doors for the title. Monday Window
Anything tickles your fancy? I can tell you what is NOT on my agenda, not today anyway: FOWC with Fandango: Agenda
St Florian is of course, the patron saint of fire fighters. He is often depicted in murals on houses but that’s the only tiled mural of him I’ve found. This bakery doesn’t exist anymore but the tiled mural still tells of former times. My favourite … Continue reading Tiles into Murals
This school in Mannheim, Germany was built around the turn of the last century as a so-called Volksschule. In the 1970s it was changed into a Gymnasium, (i.e. a place to exercise young minds and not bodies). In the early days they had separate entrances … Continue reading A Place of Learning