
The One Word Sunday challenge asked for shape. It’s so drab outside I wanted to look at some colour – and tulips have a very distinguishable shape, too.
More shapely photos can be found here.

The One Word Sunday challenge asked for shape. It’s so drab outside I wanted to look at some colour – and tulips have a very distinguishable shape, too.
More shapely photos can be found here.
Another Six Word Saturday. More of them here.
For the A Photo A Week challenge. More photos with the colour purple can be found here.

I don’t like the word “window shopping” for this small tradition in our family, it’s a leisurely stroll enjoying the lights and the seasonal displays. It usually happens during the time we call “between the years”, i.e. between Christmas and New Year when all the shopping (and running and rushing) is over.
You’ll find more traditions over at Paula’s Thursday Special.

The Daily Post‘s prompt for this week is “ascend“.
I have used this clique before (although not quite these shots) but that’s fair enough as this sculpture is in fact, NOT unique. I have taken these pictures in Schwetzingen but another group of four claqueurs standing in a queue can be found in Pforzheim. In Backnang there were only three – however, they have been stolen probably to melt the bronze and sell it wholesale. The artist is Guido Messer, the title is “Die Claque“. A claque is a group of men and women in an audience who are paid to clap – a custom which was popular first in France and later in other European countries.
You might have guessed – this is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge where the alphabet has reached the letter Q.

… when I go round on a Ferris wheel (poem by Ava Courtney).
Looking out from the top of Neustadt an der Weinstraße towards the Pfälzer Wald (Palatinate Forest) in southwest Germany.

And looking down.

And looking over to the station, past some more adventurous revellers.
One Word Sunday‘s theme was elevation.