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.
Our walks during lock down where often through eerily quiet neighbourhoods. No cars, no playing children, even no animals could be heard. Then an unimaginable ruckus! All the louder for the earlier silence.
An old farm building was being prepared for core renovation and bricks and stones were coming down a shoot at speed to land in the trailer of a tractor. What a ruckus!
Needless to say that I took 10 photos with a pile of unmoving stones until I got one with a stone in mid air!
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Ruckus.
After having spent an afternoon outside with our running group I am not juiced up enough for an energetic post. We take turns hosting a run and today’s was organised by a Brazilian. Mid-way we were surprised with proper Caipirinhas, Brazilian Cachaça and lime juice as refreshers which might explain my state of mind (and body) this Sunday night.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Juice.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Prism.
When cycling through the fields, mostly strawberry and asparagus, I was bowled over this May with the scent of strawberries in the air. You would come around a corner and it hit you: STRAWBERRIES. Definitely more than a whiff. But it lingered and I could keep smelling a faint strawberry scent for hours afterwards. And now, with summer gone I just need the slightest whiff of a single strawberry and I am back in the fields thinking of the quote “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did” (by Dr William Boteler, quoted via Roger Williams – or possibly somebody else).
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Quote: Whiff.
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