The poem “The Song of the Bell” by Friedrich Schiller has given a number of familiar sayings to the German language. The above one is often quoted when children or adults behave totally out of control. Some people need less provocation than others.
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Never to intersect
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Parallel
African Savannah in Kronberg
I’ve been to the southern most boabab in the Kruger Park in South Africa, i.e. I know that boababs don’t like colder climates. So when I saw this one, near Frankfurt am Main in Germany, I knew something was not right – despite the giraffes and zebras milling about.
The location is a give away – as is the door – this is an artificial baobab. They wanted to create an African atmosphere at the Opel-Zoo but doesn’t it look absurd with the rest of the German landscape and plants around?
Don’t even blink. Blink and you’re dead.
The Weeping Angels are recurring villains in the Dr Who universe – first appearing in an episode with the Tenth Doctor called “Blink”. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Blink
Beyond
Kopfloser Engel / Headless angel in Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany Ragtag Daily Prompt: Transcendent
Royal Disdain
This white-lipped tree frog from Papua-Newguinea definitely has that look of regal disdain but is he a regal frog prince? Ragtag Daily Prompt: Regal
Know Your Terrain!
If you lay a trail you need to know more or less where you going, how long it will take, and where good spots are on the way for possible deceptions or drink stops. In other words, you need to recce the area ahead of … Continue reading Know Your Terrain!
Gluttony leading to cannibalism
and it’s fun! (in a sarcastic kind of way) This is a mural on the side of a local butchery. Bad enough that those little piggies stuff themselves and fattening themselves up, it gets really perverse with this side panel: Ragtag Daily Prompt: Gluttony
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