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Innocents abroad

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Mark Twain

When we came across this fellow, sitting quietly next to the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, an American who happened to be standing next to me, felt the need to inform me – quite patronizingly – that this was a famous American writer and he wasn’t quite sure whether I might have heard of him.  I informed him – equally condescendingly – that I had read most everything that Mr Samuel Longhorne Clemens had written (which is not a lie, his collected works in English and German are amongst my most cherished books).   I added “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”  He recognised the quote and we proceeded to have an interesting conversation about Mark Twain.

For One Word Sunday: celebrity.

For more celebrity shots click here.

OEG: Oh, ewiges Gewackel – O, everlasting jiGgling!

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One of the first tramlines between towns jn Germany (as opposed to inner-city lines) was the OEG (Oberrheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft) which ran (and still runs) on a circular track between Mannheim – Weinheim – Heidelberg.  Today it is connected to various other tram systems serving the larger Rhein-Neckar-area.  Locally, it is still affectionally known as OEG = Oh, Ewiges Gewackel, or O, Everlasting jiGgling, even though the carriages are much more comfortable today.  The official name – Linie 5 – has not caught on.

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Waiting for the ÖG.

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And here she comes. (Yes, this electric train is thought of as female.)

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For A Photo a Week Challenge: Public transportation.

More trains, trams, buses, and the like,  can be found here.

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Consider the birds.

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Close up of birds with selective colour.  Rooster x3 and a chicken.

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Greylag goose and Canada goose.

Close-ups for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.  More close-ups of birds, people, and things can be found here.

At least, she tried.

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I’m just not in a wretched mood today.  Neither was my friend who tried to copy the wretched facial expression of the statue and failed – miserably.

For One Word Sunday. More utterly miserable, wretched photos to be found here.

There is no elevator

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Stairs leading to the castle ruin Windeck in Weinheim.
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Stairs leading up to the statue of Bavaria from the Oktoberfestplatz in Munich.
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Stairs in Mainz leading to the Oberstadt.
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Stairs in the dunes behind Bamburgh Castle.

Stairs are paths, too.

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.  More paths, streets, roads, etc. can be found here.

You can make me see orange

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Flaming red poker

A Kniphofia flower

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and the real thing.

Orange is possibly my favourite colour.  I also really like red hot pokers, tritomas, poker plants, Fackellilien (torch lilies), Kniphofias or knofflers – whatever you want to call them.  How could you not like such a brilliant flower with such names!

Nancy over at A Photo A Week wanted to see some photos displaying orange.  More orange photos can be found here.

Can you read between those lines?

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The Daily Post wants photos with a composition dominated by lines this week, hard or soft, straight or curvy, vertical or horizontal.  Here are two contribution, hard and soft, straight and curvy, vertical, horizontal and diagonal:

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For more lined photographs, have a look here.