Tag: poppies

More Poppies

This could have been One Word Sunday: Red for Debbie, this could have been a red square for Becky’s Simply Red, but it is a colour collage for Aino’s Värikollaasit #457

All Quiet

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony–Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy.”

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Aber du warst mir vorher nur ein Gedanke, eine Kombination, die in meinem Gehirn lebte und einen Entschluß hervorrief – diese Kombination habe ich erstochen. Ich habe gedacht an deine Handgranaten, an dein Bajonett und deine Waffen – jetzt sehe ich deine Frau und dein Gesicht und das Gemeinsame. Vergib mir, Kamerad! Wir sehen es immer zu spät. Warum sagt man uns nicht immer wieder, daß ihr ebenso arme Hunde seid wie wir, daß eure Mütter sich ebenso ängstigen wie unsere und daß wir die gleiche Furch vor dem Tode haben und das gleiche Sterben und den gleichen Schmerz -. Vergib mir, Kamerad, wie konntest du mein Feind sein.”

Erich Maria Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues

Writer’s Quotes Wednesday

Through the dancing poppy stole a breeze

25 treasure

How hidden this field of poppies was to locals, I don’t know.  But I had walked hours and hours before I came upon it, quite unexpectedly stepping out of the woods.

The full quote by John Keats is thus: “Through the dancing poppies stole a breeze most softly lulling to my soul.”

More hidden treasures for the A Photo a Week Challenge can be found here.

Threesomes

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The three arches of the Königshalle of the Lorsch Abbey, a UNESCO world heritage site – built in the second half of the 8th century.

 

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1250 years vs. 1 season only – threes nevertheless.

 

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And another threesome, even more short-lived.

 

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A companionable threesome, three ducks in winter.

 

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Three birds of a different feather.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes