Tag: helmet

The winged helmet

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The helmet gives it away, this here is either Hermes or Mercurius, the Greek or Roman god of merchants and thieves who was often employed by the other gods as messenger because of his speed as symbolized by the wings. He stands high up on the walls of Castle Biebrich in Wiesbaden and I wonder why they chose to depict him so … mature rather than the young spritely god.

More the merchant, possibly the thief, but not the fast messenger after whom the fastest of all planets and thus quicksilver was named.

FOWC with Fandango: Helmet

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Helmets are Strong

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And finally, the most precious head with strong protection: Monochrome Madness #38: Starting with an H It was Sarah who picked the letter H for this week’s monochrome madness.

Alien Alert

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I see faces … in this case: I see a skull. This is the flower of an aristolochia macrophylla or a Dutchman’s pipe. Weird enough when they are in full bloom and even worse when they are deadheads (sic!) this one really looked at me. … Continue reading Alien Alert

Wear a mask! – But also wear a helmet!

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This ties in with Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything to do with bikes, trikes and motorcyles yesterday. I was on a long bike tour today. I came home with a scraped ellbow, a sore thumb and a cracked bicycle helmet.

I don’t know how the accident happened. I can localise it on a stretch of about 5 kilometres but I have no recollection of what happened. I made it home and I was hungry. My head doesn’t hurt. But my husband promised to watch me tonight.

Update: I’m fine. Here is another take of mine on the accident: https://debrisweb.wordpress.com/2020/08/08/soweit-ich-mich-erinnern-kann-to-the-best-of-my-recollection/