I witnessed this air rescue helicopter in action in Munich earlier this year. There had been accident involving a cyclist and a car. I did not take photos of the emergency doctor and paramedics treating the badly injured cyclist, actually we left the scene as soon as the helicopter had landed. But … there were real people working inside.
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The island of Krk. In front of Croatia in the Adriatic Sea. In front of garbage containers. But even that is picturesque. And what time to have a photo of Croatia who later today will play France for the football (soccer) world championship in their first world cup final ever [edit: they didn’t win, but they were in the final!]
An equally incongruous place for a garbage container, in the old southern cemetery in Munich.
Not an odd location but an odd inscription: the town’s finest.
Just to round off this rubbish collection, here is Oscar the Grouch who lives in a garbage can on Sesame Street.
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Saint Florian is the patron saint of fire fighters. One often hears the above saying following his name, literally translated it means:
Spare my house, burn down another one.
This statue of the saint, appropriately placed in a fountain, stands across the old fire station in Munich.
This old marker used to stand in front of the fire station no. 2 in Frankfurt:
whereas this modern fire fighting truck is part of the fleet of the Weinheim fire brigade.
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There was this pond covered with water lilies, one about to be born like Venus of the watery foam, a nascent life form. Nearby lilac flowers looked like an abundance of writhing snakes pullulating in the bushes. This made me hungry so I went to the famous Viktualienmarkt in Munich with its hundreds of stalls selling victuals of every kind. A car passed by – and I wondered if a nut feels maternal towards bolts, after all in German they are called “Mutter” which means “mother”. And I was back at the pond where a frog pondered reflectively about his eye glancing up at him from the water and he completed the circle quoting “Consider the lilies!” from The Life of Brian.
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… I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like.
Need I say that the lyrics are from Queen?
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I took a considerable detour to photograph this 500-year-old tower only to be confronted with this:
It wasn’t the first time I had similar luck.
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Stairs are paths, too.
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I came across this mural in München, Germany (Munich). Intellectually, I understand the juxtaposition between war/war machinery and the beauty found in flowers and traditional ceramics and porcelain. But overall – I am not really convinced that it works for me.
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