Tag: #Ragtag Daily Prompt

📻 Ferry … ‘cross the river …

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When you’re only four-years-old, it takes a lot of patience waiting for the ferry to cross the river.

But since Emily mentioned our current situation I thought I’d add one of the pebbles or rather a pebble construction with an appropriate message:

These pebbles appeared in a long line along a popular path around the local lake during the first lockdown last year. The words from left to right read: “strength – balance – hope” and from top to bottom: “patience – love”. All qualities that we can never do without but are particularly in demand right now.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Patience

Play On

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I’m not sure about the exclusivity of “food of love” but what would we be without music? So – play on, give me excess of it!

As we should currently experience live music only outside and not in indoor-venues, here are three examples with completely different styles of music.

This colourful group, called the Pantoffelgugge, are the musical troupe of a local carnival club. They have their big moments during the carnival season in winter but they take part in other local traditions. This picture was taken a few years ago at our local spring parade. Their style of music is quite unique, this is how the English wikipedia describes it: “It is a strongly rhythmic music of distinctive style played with brass instruments, pipes and drums. Although melodies remain clearly recognizable, they are at times played “off-key”, intentionally and often quite skillfully. Driven by a dominant rhythm section, the music sounds twisted and thrilling, very danceable and perfect for spontaneous street concerts during the “wild days” of Carnival.”

The music produced by accordions, known affectionally as squeezebox or in German, Quetschkommod, is more traditional. Although a taste my ears have never really acquired, in certain situations it can be fun – to listen to and better yet, to sing along.

When on a visit to a local small lake last autumn the atmosphere was magically transformed by the eerie and very beautiful notes coming from this man playing his pan flute. I took the picture from the opposite bank.

Quite contrary, this car number plate from Croatia seems to have a rather disrespectful opinion about the driver of its vehicle.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Music

Do I really want it?

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It’s not a flattering photograph. I didn’t even know I was in the shot until I got home as this was taken on the fly. I liked the slogan on the van, an advertisement for a local beer (We Want Wulle) because I could do something to it which involved our family name. My bad that the van was so shiny!

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Stealthie

I can be human here

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In the first scenes of what is arguably the most well-known German play, Faust has contemplated suicide because he has realised his limitations in the light of his ambitions. The ringing of the church bells at the break of dawn and the Christian message of the risen Christ hold him back.

Next morning he leaves the city to join the masses of people on a stroll outside the city gates. The following is an ode to spring and humanity, a piece of poetry colloquially known as the “Easter Walk” and lines from it are known by almost every German. He starts with describing the surroundings, seeing nature freed from the white ice just as the people are freed from the grey city. Nature is still lacking colour this early in spring, so people have to supply it with their finery. The soliloquy ends with Faust’s awareness that he can join the rest of humanity.

Hence, the photo of an Easter Sunday morning stroll.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Human