We’ve not only had a cold snap but in the days before it started snowing quite a lot. All this was not so unusual when I was little but nowadays if it snows it usually melts within the next days. The large meadow in the local … Continue reading Cold But Fun
In Frankfurt and the areas around cider rivals beer as the favourite drink in pubs and restaurants. If it is a traditional place, it is served in stoneware cider jugs, called a Bembel. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Jug
A reticulated python is called that because of the net or web like pattern – reticulated means “like a net”. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tangled Web
Crossing the river Neckar in Mannheim can be done on different bridges. This is the newest of them all, a bridge for pedestrians only. It’s the Collini-Steg – named after an intimate friend of Voltaire, Cosimo Alessandro Collini lived at the Mannheim court, considered an esteemed scientist, … Continue reading Across the Bridge
Six Word Saturday
If you grow up in a specific neighbourhood it’s not just the houses and streets themselves, it’s the people, the language, the history. Is this influence more or less formative than the genes? FOWC with Fandango: Milieu
time keeps flowing. Birkenau (in the Odenwald) is a large village or small town of just under 10,000 inhabitants. It also has more than 200 sun dials, free standing ones and on houses. Since 2021 the record is official: Birkenau has the world record in “laregest … Continue reading Joy or Sorrow
Monochrome Madness: Different Citiscapes
The family planning of this turtle (and others like her) did not take into account our holidays on their beach in Cyprus. The hatchlings decided to leave their eggs 10 days after we had left. Elwetritsche are mythical creatures from the Palatinate. Five eggs in different stages … Continue reading Hatchlings
I’m not a hypocrite either. I like spiders. This particular tarantula liked me and clung to me with her tiny claws. Apparently because it liked my body heat. For some spiders you do not need a macro lens. First contact. Reminds one of the famous Michelangelo painting, … Continue reading I’m a Fan of Spiders
