This is the chapter house of the Wachenburg in Weinheim, a room where large meetings are held. Normally one finds such halls in church related buildings such as monastries or cathedrals but this chapter house is part of a castle built by an association of fraternities. It is used once a year by the association itself when the fraternity members have their annual meeting, the rest of the year it can be booked for events.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Empty Room.
What started out as an argument (or possibly a bullying incident)
amongst domestic geese
turned into a wild fracas
before settling down again when everyone left.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Fracas.
A week structures your time. I was always amazed how a week felt when we lived in Saudi Arabia. Since the weekend is on Thursday and Friday the children went to school and the husband went to work on Saturday and Sunday, that was a … Continue reading Time is relative
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Topple.
Lindenfels is a small town in the Odenwald where the German Dragon Museum is housed hence dragons abound in the streets and the shop windows, often crossing the line between art and kitsch. This one struck me as particularly stange: A baby-faced dragon with droopy eyelids doing yoga? No comment.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Strange.
For many children the first day of school is a day of joy and great expectations.
Some are more nervous than others, picking at their “Schultüte” (large cornet of cardboard filled with sweets and little presents given to children in Germany on their first day of school).
While others are simply overwhelmed with impending doom when they realise what the next 13 years of their lives will look like.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Impending.
Traditionally, the local cider is served from these jugs. They are called “Bembel” and are typical for the area around Frankfurt in Germany. They are grey with a blue glaze but more importantly if you drink a lot of the Äppler, as the cider is called, you end up “glazed” or in the local vernacular: “blue”.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Grey turns to blue.
European pond turtle
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Europäische Sumpfschildkröte
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European swamp shield toad
This shield toad, sorry, turtle (which btw is somewhere between a real turtle and a tortoise) doesn’t exactly live in a swamp but somewhere between a real pond (Teich) and a swamp (Sumpf).
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Swamp.
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