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A fool’s hope?
This is another one of those painted pebbles that appeared around the local lake during COVID time. Small messages when it was difficult to communicate. For a while the pandemic brought us together by keeping us apart.
I wonder, though, if being hopeful was justified? The pandemic went away. This one, at least. The virus has remained but seems tamed (for the moment). But what about the all the conspiracy theories that stayed, divisions between people? For a while the pandemic brought us together by keeping us apart.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Hopeful
21 special creatures
This is one of my favourite fountains. It’s the “Elwetritsche Brunnen” in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Palatinate. Elwetritsche are mythical creatures from our area, often said to be bird-like and a mixture of other animals or things. And there are always new ones hatching. … Continue reading 21 special creatures
Calm doesn’t mean inattentive
I remember when this dog was young and freshly come from an abusive situation. He’s calmed down tremendously since then.
Upper Rhine Plain
We live “right of the Rhine”, aka on the eastern side of the Rhine, at the place where the hills meet the plain. The plain stretches about 350km from northern Switzerland to about Frankfurt am Main. It’s about 50km wide. So when I look due west I can see several smaller towns, two cities (Mannheim and Ludwigshafen) until the hills of the Pfälzer Wald which border the plain on the western side.
Is it sgraffito or not?
The opinions differ. Maybe it’s a combination of sgraffito and painting, I’m not a specialist. But it’s definitely patterned.
Seen in Bensheim, south of Frankfurt.
I saw something moving in the lake
I took the pictures despite the turbid water not hoping for much. Two clicks in photoscape and I could identify that the fish were perch. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Turbid
Marbach Stausee
Water reservoir Marbach The catchment area is the river Mümling and its tributaries in the middle of the Odenwald. It was created around 1980 as a protection against flooding. But in 1986 it started catching hikers, sunseekers, and bathers, too. This was on the tail-end … Continue reading Marbach Stausee
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