3 pigeons 3 raftsmen 3 giraffes Thursday Trios
3 pigeons 3 raftsmen 3 giraffes Thursday Trios
You cannot come up. You’ll destroy the symmetry! The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry
Wordless Wednesday
I counted very carefully, not all birds are easy to spot. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Embrace the Numbers
Leanne has asked me to pick a topic for her Monochrome Madness challenge. I decided that birds would be a good idea. I don’t have many bird photos but the good ones are amongst my private favourites. I usually wish that I had a better … Continue reading One for the Birds






At least, when they are just sitting there (the monument looked clean all round).
This is the Alice monument for the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine in Darmstadt. Incidentally, she was the second eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary of Great Britan and Irleand which – if my thinking is correct – made her the great-great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and also the maternal great-grandmother of her husband, Prince Philip. Her memory is alive and well in Darmstadt as the hospital she founded in 1869 is still going strong; I myself was a patient there for a couple of days a decade ago.