Tag: Schildkröte
Memories of Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was our sons’ tortoise when we lived in Zimbabwe. He got the name after we observed him eating a lettuce leaf. If you look at this giant tortoise above, seen in a zoo, you realise why.
Old Crusty
Monday Portrait
Let’s Cross Horns
At the southern tip of the Kruger Park is the Berg en Dal Camp and most of the white rhinos can be found in its vicinity. When we were there in the 1980s their numbers were more than three times what they are now, and even that wasn’t a glorious past for the beasts.
This much smaller armoured creature was inside one of the camps and we helped it out of the road.
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[Disclaimer: The photos have been photographed from prints.]
Merry Go Round
Since one of the words in Paula’s Thursday’s Special Pick a Word was CONTINUITY I thought I start with a circle because every photos has two of the words in it.
The Red Mosque situated in the palace gardens of the Schwetzingen Castle is turned inward with continuing elements: INWARD + CONTINUITY.
The Walderdorffer Hof in Bensheim, build around 1395 is considered to be the oldest completely preserved half-timbered house in the southern part of the state of Hesse: CONTINUITY + REFLECTION.
One of the high rise buildings in Frankfurt am Main, a stronghold of the European banking industry: REFLECTING + STRONGHOLD.
Veste Otzberg on a hill in the Odenwald was built as a stronghold and can only be reached on foot: STRONGHOLD + PEDESTRIAN.
Whether you consider the walk of this tortoise pedestrian or its whole demeanour pedestrian there is no doubt that this animal can turn inward if it needs to be: PEDESTRIAN + INWARD.
Thursday Special: Pick a Word
but first sleep
I’ve used this group before. It’s a sculpture of, I think, eight sleepers. There is space to sit next or opposite them but I don’t think living people can really relax close to them.
This is part of a group depicting the night in the garden Gethsemane when all the disciples fell asleep while Jesus prayed.
The way animals sleep, one can only be envious.
And what do turtles dream of?
Cats of course, are champion sleepers. This one slept next to a busy road and had made this flower pot his own. A potted cat, so to speak.
It doesn’t look comfortable but it must be – at the moment this is our cats favourite place for a snooze.
And this picture is – for me – pure bliss. Falling asleep while reading a book … without the dummy, for preference though.
For A Photo a Week: Sleeping.
Do not disturb
This yellow-bellied slider was just sitting there and enjoy the sunlight.
I think his expression just exudes happiness, don’t you think?
And I couldn’t leave without sharing a photo of this gorgeous cat – she was a regular in the local park. People took innumerable photos of her, always claiming that she posed for them. I think she was just enjoying the sun in her favourite spot.
Linked to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Sitting in the Sun.
One more wrinkle
I misread the title as “the textures of your world” and I wanted to say that I sometimes feel withered and shrivelled and wizened like these (possibly quite young) tortoises and turtles. I think I just leave that here.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: The textures in your world.
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