or Public Mural Art in Mannheim.This mural by the Belgian artist Nean is the 50th large mural under the heading “Stadt.Wand.Kunst.” by the town of Mannheim. It’s called FOUR and in summer it blends in with the trees surrounding the house which makes the illusion of a forest which is appropriate for a building in Elm Street (Ulmenstraße).
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My husband and I occasionally take a walk around a local lake. Somewhere a long the way there are a number of walls in the middle of a meadow. Their only function is to give a platform for local sprayers. The graffiti / murals change … Continue reading And then one Day It Changed
Tommy James and the Shondells Ragtag Daily Prompt: Crimson
Lucky Luke is a cowboy. But the operative word starting with a C for today’s One Word Sunday is CAN. Lucky Luke’s horse is called Jolly Jumper. He pursues (and usually catches) The Dalton Boys. But his dog – the stupidest dog in the universe … Continue reading Lucky Luke, the Belgian Cowboy
“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”Robert Green Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV Wednesday Quotes: Helping Hands
Monday Portrait
The Seven Swabians is a tale found in the collection of fairytales by the Brothers Grimm. Although grouped with fairytales, it is rather a droll story about seven not very bright, not very brave Swabians and their adventures – like fighting a hare which they mistake for a monster.
In Bad Wildbad House Swabia features a mural around some small panelled windows.
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Susan and Gerry from Weekly Prompts offered the prompt “leaves” for this weeks Wednesday Challenge. It’s autumn and leaves (as in: the plural of leaf) is an obvious choice. I thought about it, obviously, but I thought the competition would be fierce so I’d rather offer a take on an old joke.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
Lynne Truss, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenges: Leaves
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to install these things: I’m happy to see that plumbers have added solar panels to their repertoire. And can I tell you that a plumber in German is called a “Installateur”. FOWC with Fandango: Install
