I’m not really back from holidays. I don’t want to be back. But I peaked in today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt and I couldn’t resist sharing this photo. It’s a queue. A queue of flamingoes. They did come closer to our resort’s beach and I will show photos of them at a later stage. But how could I resist this prompt?
BTW: The fly by (actually quite a few fly byes during half an hour) was spectacular.
Well, it’s not a waterspout fountain.
Splash splatter drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Onomatopoeia
After our misunderstanding last weekend ( –> Henry’s Ordeal ) we were treated with some disdain by our cat. He looked away purposefully whenever we tried to approach him:
I resorted to bribery:
It seems to have worked; the men were united once again:
Whereas I was noticeably considered an intruder:
“What’s a matter, you!? Gotta no respect?!”
What else could he be up to but some monkeyshines when escaping?
And here are the places that would love to accommodate him: The Blue Monkey in Bensheim, Monkey’s at Bostalsee, and a real shiny monkey, the Brass Monkey in Heidelberg.
Where would you like to get up to some high jinx?
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Monkeyshines
This graffiti wall in the middle of a meadow with an undecipherable word and an almost Sherlock Holmes like character in the middle (notice the cap!) is the closest I could come to a visual representation of bargleflooping. The opposite of bargleflooping might be babel fishing (babel fish = the universal translator) which is a life form not an AI.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Bargleflooping
Not so much a movie (although two movies exist with that title) but a character. Mephiso is of course, the devil in Faust I + II, the drama written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, generally considered the German play per se. I read it first at school (and loved it); I listened to the most famous production with Gustav Gründgens as Mephisto on lp so often that I know long stretches by heart; I used parts for auditioning pieces; I designed a stage for it – in other words, Faust and Mephisto have been with me for a long time.
There is a movie called Méphisto from 1931 with Jean Gabin, and Mephisto with Klaus Maria Brandauer, which won the 1982 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
The above cinema in Ulm was named after the character.
or are they really small?
Nudibums on the beach
Photographer on the block
Nudibum on the bottle
Actually our German social running groups organise a national meeting (called a Nash Hash) every year. Since there are 10 chapters in Germany which share the organising. Some are so small that they can’t manage the task. And then there was a break between 2018 and 2221 (I wonder why, I blocked out that time). But after nine years it’s upon us again. This was in 2014 in Rüdesheim. And you guessed it, next weekend it’s our turn again. This time there will be 270 hashers attending the GNH. The participants are limited by the size of the venue, more often than not a youth hostel.
So if you have been wondering seeing my photos over the past few weeks: this community has been on my mind more than usual.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Community
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