This is a favourite German Easter treat. No, it’s not a chocolate cockroach as our American friends suspected and only asked me incredulously: “WHY?” It’s a May beetle made of chocolate.
Tag: #Ragtag Daily Prompt
Sideways Queue
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.
Watersplatter Fountain
Well, it’s not a waterspout fountain.
Splash splatter drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Onomatopoeia
Who else?
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?!”
Monkey Swing, Monkey Do
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
Artful Confusion
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
The Devil of a Movie
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.
Is It Only a Matter of Perspective
or are they really small?
Nudibums on the beach
Photographer on the block
Nudibum on the bottle
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