For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge: ears and a few odd ears.
For more oddball photos click here.

More selfies can be found by clicking on One Word Sunday.

Guggemusik is played by bands, mainly during carnival, in Switzerland and the southwestern part of Germany. The English Wikipedia describes the style like this: “It is a strongly rhythmic music of distinctive style played with brass instruments, pipes and drums. Although melodies remain clearly recognizable, they are at times played “off-key”, intentionally and often quite skillfully. Driven by a dominant rhythm section, the music sounds twisted and thrilling, very danceable and perfect for spontaneous street concerts during the “wild days” of Carnival.” This particular group are the “Pantoffelgugge”, the band of the “Pantoffelhelden”.
For more musical photos check out A Photo a Week: what’s your favourite music?

There is nothing permanent except change.
— Heraclitus
Debbie at Travel with intent gives the quote and an image, and if inspiration strikes there will be more photos here.




For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: benches.
Benches Cee wanted, benches Cee got. And some birds thrown in for good measure.
For more photos of benches, click here.

For A Photo a Week: neglect.
For more neglected photos, or photos of neglected things, click here.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
Afterward you can remove all reality.
– Pablo Picasso
Debbie at Travel with intent gives the quote and an image, and if inspiration strikes there will be more photos here.
I used the Photoscape program and then edited the image with the Lunapic editor (https://www298.lunapic.com/editor/ ) which has an option to render the photo you upload in the style of a particular artist. I don’t think Picasso is really all that good and typical but this possibly because he had such different styles but I stuck with it anyway because it is his quote. Then I went back to Photoscape and used an artistic effect, swirl in both cases (the effect is different because the lilies were already in a collage when I started out) and tweaked the colour a bit in the second.
Somebody stop me I could play around like this for hours and hours!
