Rather!
We not only had snow but it is rather cold enough to stay and instead of turning into a mushy slush it crunches when you walk on it. Chilly it is but also rather lovely.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Chilly.
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A Visual Echo
There is this little old house in our street. A couple of years ago it was renovated and the traditional half-timbered upper story was offset by the deep berry coloured groundfloor walls.
A quote from the Book of Proverbs from the Old Testament is written between two wooden beams:
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established. (Solomon - Proverbs: 24:3) Which in the German translation seems more appropriate for an actual house: Through wisdom a house is built, through wit (or sense) it is kept.
And then I saw this house – in a town about 10 km away:
The same colour scheme, the same quotation, the same font.
But which one is an echo of the other?
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Echo.
Living it
I had lived in South Africa for a couple of years when I went back home to visit my mother and walking about our old town with its medieval towers and the baroque castle and the 1000-year- old castle ruin on the hill I suddenly realised that in Johannesburg the oldest building I could come across was barely 50 years old. Whereas in my old home history seemed to stare at me from every corner, my new home seemed devoid of it.
Which is of course, the wrong definition of history. I saw the height of the fight against apartheid, I saw the end of this terrible system (even helped in the tiniest amount – I served tea to a few of the protagonists). I lived through history. Today, this is history. So much so that a statue of one of the heroes of the time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, stands surrounded by gravestones and garden ornaments in the lot of a stonemason in a little town in the Odenwald and is instantly recognised.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: History.
I’m coming home again and again
When I see these two castles in the distance, I know I’m coming home. No matter what the weather, no matter what time of the year, or even what year it is. I lived in different parts of the world for more than 30 years but these two castles always spelt home for me.
Weinheim is known as the Two Castle Town. so much so that we even have a cookie cutter with their silhouettes.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Homecoming.
Come Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me
Not having any tippy-toes on file (and my own being unpresentable in the middle of winter) I thought I needed some colour in my life.
It seems, once the tulips are out (not yet this year!) the temptation to tiptoe through them is a great one.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tiptoe.
Calm down!
If you hold still for a second we will be able to identify you better!
There you go: Pieres brassicae. Cabbage butterfly. Kohlweißling.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Cabbage.
I’m sure they thought they were
I’m sure they thought they were eloquent. Not sure about the neighbours.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Eloquent.
Hockley Heath, October 2015
I wasn’t young but my camera was and I had no tripod and there I was in the middle of the UK and there was a blood moon. And before and after the moon passed through the penumbra.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Penumbra.
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