Tag: #rdp
It’s this time of the year again
School is starting for many year 1 students in Germany. Some time in the late 18th century people thought the children needed something to sweeten this step towards the seriousness of life. So they gave the children a cone filled with sweets. The custom is … Continue reading It’s this time of the year again
The magnitude of a sham
The giant wine cask of Bad Dürkheim is the largest cask in the world. It would hold 1,700,000 litres if it weren’t a restaurant on the inside.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Magnitude
Himalayan Indian Balsam
This flower – a perennial shrub, up over 2 metres in height, native to the Indian subcontinent – is totally invasive in the North American continent and Europe. I don’t know about other areas but here they grow next to every little brook or stream.
Mum said: Don’t wiggle on the ledge
but did he listen?! Ragtag Daily Prompt: Wiggle
After a night on the town
with too much to drink
he couldn’t walk a straight line anymore.
Meet Mr Wagtail meandering towards his home.
The Wilderness in My Backyard
At least that WAS the wilderness unti the drought hit. Now it’s all brown and beige and green is a dream of the wild past.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Wilderness
Murmeltiertal
This is a view from the Murmeltiertal, the Valley of the Marmots, in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. I waited here for my fellow hikers to return who went up the hill (I had problems with the altitude and didn’t want to chance it). I heard quite a few marmots whistling, saw a few scrambling shadow but couldn’t get a picture (it was a fw years ago and I didn’t have a camera with a decent zoom either).
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Groundhog
