For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Books and Paper. More photos of these can be found here.
So many books, so little time
Tag: Ladenburg
Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant
Who??! — Better known as Carl Benz, the inventor of the first viable automobile. This portrait of his is in Ladenburg, close to Mannheim, Germany, where he made his invention and located to – privately as well as his factory – in 1904.
This is for One Word Sunday. More who? photos can be found here.
The fabric of exterior art
This storefront is from Schwetzingen, a small town in the southwest of Germany. The shop is selling paints, fabric, and carpeting.
This is for Monday Mural.
I’d rather be reading
I loved this sculpture in front of the public library in Ladenburg since I first saw it. It’s a reference to reading itself – whatever kind of books you like.
And while we are in Ladenburg (a small town in the southwest of Germany) have a look at this medieval tower, I could happily see it standing in Ankh-Morpork, maybe the tower of the Unseen University before the vice-chancellors got eccentric and went for the Babylonian style of architecture (I am referring to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, of course).
This tower stands about 10 kilometres to the northeast in Weinheim. It’s part of the local castle and since I was little I noticed its turrets and bay windows and dormer windows – and imagined myself a Disney princess when I was there.
And can’t you see the reference to Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
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