“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
The quote by Flaubert is not only applicable to space but also to time. This basilica dates back to the 9th century, one of the few remnants of Carolingian architecture north of the Alps.
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by Flaubert’s quote, click here.
All these twin windows are from Steinbach, a small village which is part of the small town of Michelstadt im Odenwald. One can see that many of the older houses have shingles on the face of the buildings which is typical for the area.
And last not least the windows in the 1200-year-old basilica in the village, designed by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne. They are reinforced today and would not have had those bars in Einhard’s time.
Linked to Monday Window where more windows can be found.
German doesn’t recogonise a difference between shadow and shade, it’s both Schatten to Germans.
I happen to come across this lovely spot today. To sit in the shade of two majestic linden trees
and look onto the 1200-year-old Einhard basilica, one of very few buildings dating back to the Carolingan area north of the Alps,
and then to go inside and marvel at the shadows which were the same ones looked on by the visitors of the basilica when it was newly built.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Shadows.
Six words that are only one word in German: Feuerschlauchtrockenturmglocke:
Linked to Six Word Saturday. For more six words and accompanying photos, click here.
I’m not sure whether I am in favour of the proliferation of rape seed fields all over the country, some grown for being made into oil but the majority made into petrol. I am also not in favour of the yellow muck that descends on cars and windows during its flowering time. But I can’t help being fan of the strips of yellow in the rural landscape, of the yellow fields and of the delicate little flowers.
Linked to I’m a fan of … #65. More fanatical photos can be found linked here.
We can still walk if not in groups and the weather these past days has been glorious. So much so that it is starting to freak me out a little; almost too good to be true.
The title is from this song:
On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you’ll see who you are.
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being outshines ev’ry star.
You’ll feel part of ev’ry mountain sea and shore.
You can hear, from far and near,
A world you’ve never heard before.
And on a clear day…
On that clear day…
You can see forever and ever more!
Here is a link to the Barbra Streisand version.
For more Friday Fun: Clarity click here.
Clouds – rain – spring – river – sea – evaporation – clouds – rain – – – the circle of life.
Can you see the newborn Lion King?
Clouds over hills and dales –
Clouds over the empty festival grounds which are home to the world largest beer festival once a year, the Münchner Oktoberfest.
And one big thick cloud and not nothing else.
A host of clouds behind a silhouette of trees.
And again stretching over hills
offering a peephole into the sky.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Clouds.
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