Trios from Germany largest tobacco museum (quaint it is, but it is Germany’s largest according to their website) in Lorsch.

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that smoking isn’t really conducive to your health, gentlemen smoked pipes. And very elaborate pipes indeed.

Last week we were at the UNESCO heritage site of the Abbey of Lorsch. There is a small museum close by and we had a look. A small section is concerned with the abbey, the rest of the building houses Germany’s largest tobacco museum. The combination may be unusual but not the location: Lorsch has been a tobacco growing town for three centuries.
Monday Portrait
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The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Pick a Shape
or brewery with a bakery The crest combines both professions, a brewer and a baker. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Bakery
Monday Window
The central building of the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. The Kö-Bogen in Düsseldorf. The façade of the entrance hall of the Lorsch Abbey. I’ve put different texture filters over each one of the pictures. The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Unnatural Patterns
The translation of the short poem on this house reads: This building is here To dignify the town, To adorn the place, And for my enjoyment. Since I grew up next to this house, just on the other side of the lane, I thought the … Continue reading Place Times Four




Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: L at the End of the Word
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The three arches of the Carolingian gatehouse of the Imperial Abbey Lorsch from the 8th century.
The three arches of the Munich main fire station (Hauptfeuerwache) from the beginning of the 20th century.
A mixed commercial and residential building with three sets of bay windows in Heinsberg.




For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Any kind geometric shape.
More geometric photos can be found here.