I have to add to the one word because this wheel led me down a small rabbit hole. At the harbour of Gernsheim, a town on the Rhine about 40 km south of Mainz, I saw this crest on the side of a monument. The … Continue reading A lesson in heraldry
Tag: Mainz
Put Your Feet to the Pedals
One Word Sunday: Transport
It Was A Couple of Nights Before Christmas
We were out with our running/walking group in vineyard country and we were ambling a bit more than usual and we were additionally slowed down by a Glühwein (mulled wine) stall in a farm yard and it gets dark early and we ended up near … Continue reading It Was A Couple of Nights Before Christmas
Never go upstairs empty handed
is apparently a saying of English nannies working in the US according to the web. It is also advice that Meryl Streep credits her mother for (I can’t find a source but I remember this from an interview with her). Some stairs just seem to have been built to illustrate this.
I add a photo I’ve used before (as a square top) to drive the point home:
The house on top of the stairs
“Honey, can you go down to the car, I forgot my bag …”
This is my twentyfifth square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.
One, two, three, … many!
Counting chimneys in Mainz.
What’s the collective noun for chimneys? A smoke of chimneys? I know that the collective noun for chimney sweeps is sweepdom.
I found counting chimneys much more fascinating in England and Scotland, here in Edinburgh.
How many do you count?
To counterbalance all these huddles of chimneys here is an impressive solitary one.
And what would a post about chimneys be without at least one sweep.
Linked to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Counting Chimneys.
There is no elevator
Stairs are paths, too.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More paths, streets, roads, etc. can be found here.
Step up – or down
Cee’s Black and White challenge asks for steps and stairs. Most of my choices are outdoor steps.
Nature versus city, the dunes near Bamburgh Castle in the Northeast of England versus steps in Mainz, Germany.
Steps as seats – both in Birmingham. Thomas Attwood on the steps of Chamberlain square who fought for full employment and better democractic representation and city workers on their break (of which Thomas Attwood would have approved).
These rather spidery steps lead over an area which is left untouched to show how nature is recovering after the devastation left behind by the hurricane Lothar which swept through the area in 1999 . The steps on the left are from Edinburgh, Scotland.
The New Steps is a street (with steps) in Edingburgh.
And these are new steps in metal, rather than stone. Going up the spiral stairs near the Biosphärenhaus in the Pfälzer Wald, and going down to the subway in Munich.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/09/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-steps-indoors-or-outdoors/
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