He went to America, got rich brewing beer, returned and settled in Heidelberg and had this sepulchral monument built for his wife and himself.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Grandiose
Tag: #rdp
The Voice of the Garden
The word hum is related to the Middle High German hummen and thus to the modern German Hummel – meaning bumble bee. Fun fact: While bees need at least 10 °C to be out and about bumble bee workers fly already at 6 °C because the vibration of their pectoral muscles vibrate to generate heat. Which in turn makes the fairly loud humming noise of bumble bees.
From the Back
I realised I have never shown our local Diana from the back. So here she is in her beautiful two tier skirt and with her quiver at the ready.
Why Is It Smiling?
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.
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
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