German children get a cone full of sweets on their first day of school, presumably to fool them about things to come … This fellow clutching his “Schultüte” clearly is anticipating the “Ernst des Lebens”, the seriousness of life, with some trepidation.
For One Word Sunday: anticipation. Looking forward to more anticipatory photos? Click here.
Sometimes there are just not enough hours in the day to do all that I want (and unfortunately, must) do. So today, I’ll make a virtue of necessity and I post one photo of a motor that just flitted by – just like my time.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things with engines and motors. More motorized photos can be found at the click (whirr-brrrr-rooom) of a mouse.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
– Desmond Tutu
I cannot let a quote from Desmond Tutu go by without bragging a bit that I’ve had the privilege of meeting the man. He came to the office I worked in during the days when Apartheid was still going strong (at least officially) and I had the privilege to make him and others whom he met there some tea. His then assistant kept flitting around our office saying: “The Archbishop has this, and the Archbishop only likes this, and the Archbishop only has it this way…” The Archbishop himself, though, was (and I guess still is) a charming, unassuming man, kindhearted and full of humour. I remember when he was still relatively new to his title of Archbishop he was seen walking around with a t-shirt sporting the slogan: “Just call me Arch.”
The only photo of this that I could find was on a pinterest site which was not easy to link: https://www.pinterest.de/denisequ57/just-call-me-arch/
Debbie supplies the quote and photo to illustrate it (see it here) and others add their own interpretation.
Apologies to Eric Carlé and his Brown Bear for the title.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Farm Animals. More animals on the farm can be found here.
In the Lautertal, a valley in the southern part of the state of Hesse in Germany, is the “Felsenmeer” or sea of stones. The geological processes which created this natural phenomenon happened almost 400 million years ago, over time erosion laid bare these boulders. Romans quarried them, and there are about 150 work pieces left from these times which were left behind.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: rocks, boulders, stone. More rocky and stoney photos can be found here.
I decided to pick only three of the five colours in Paula’s Thursday Special: Pick a Word – golden, pale pink, and maroon.
I still have so many photos of not yet fallen fall leaves and I thought this was as good an opportunity as any to display them.
More colourful photos can be found here.
All these people were caught unawares for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – more people caught can be found here.
A negative circle is a hole, I guess, except in this case.
For One Word Sunday: circle. More circular photos or photos of circles can be found here.
The light in the bottle: I don’t know if I like the intended meaning in the caption, or the one owed to the printer’s mishap: Love your liver (especially since this light is caught in a wine bottle.
The light in the hat: The photo was taken on a Saint Martin’s Day parade. This was the guitarist who led the procession of nursery school children through the village.
The light in the pumpkin: Not quite the right season but too good to omit.
This is for Nancy’s A Photo a Week: lit from within.
More lit up photos can be found at a drop of a hat … I mean click of a mouse.
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