Cosmic Photo Challenge: As the Sun Goes Down
Cosmic Photo Challenge: As the Sun Goes Down
This topic made me realised that I’m a wuss. I don’t have stormy photos, apparently I always hurry inside when I see dark clouds on the horizon or at least I pack away my camera (the poor thing is still suffering from the unexpected spray … Continue reading Clouds Gathering
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Bridges
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge: Yellowish
You don’t know the half of it! The town hall of Lorsch, about 60 km south of Frankfurt. A half timbered house in the Odenwald. A half timbered house with carvings and geraniums in Frankonia. Geometric Square #28
In a flat country like the Upper Rhine Valley water towers were needed to supply water to the houses of a town or a village. Nowadays, many of these towers have been converted to offices or to living quarters. Either way, one needs windows. And … Continue reading Water Tower Windows
The ultimate in horizontal stripes. Modelled here by the Dalton brothers rounded up by Lucky Luke. If you don’t know, Lucky Luke is a comic strip, published in books, by the Belgian Morris. It’s worldwide the most successful Wild West comic, was first published in … Continue reading No Stars Just Stripes
This is the panorama from the castle ruin Schauenburg above the town of Dossenheim at the Bergstraße. Schauen means “looking” in German, and one can see the Upper Rhine Valley, from Odenwald to Palatinate Forest, with Mannheim and Ludwigshafen in between. Although to be honest, … Continue reading The Name Says It All
Mannheim as seen from a highrise building. Cellpic Sunday