Tag: sculpture

There I Was, Minding My Own Business

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Every now and then one comes unexpectedly across a really strange creature.

Kurt Halbritter Siegfried Böttcher Komische Kunst Barfuesser

This delightful critter is the creation of Kurt Halbritter and is called a barefooter (Barfüßer) or pedarius nudus peregrinatorum. Halbritter made sketches of the barefooter in the 1970s, and in 2016 Siegfried Böttcher made it into a bronze sculpture. It now stands and waits to surprise unsuspecting strollers in the Brentano Park in Frankfurt as part of several art objects titled “Comical Art”.

One Word Sunday: Unexpected

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Five Wet and Wonderful Words

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Nautical: A fishing boat in front of Roker Pier in Sunderland.

Splendid: In the 18th century the Mannheim Palace was larger than the palace of Versailles.

Refraction: A circumzenital arc (not a rainbow) or the sky smiling.

Selected: A sculpture in the spa gardens of Bad Dürkheim. He’s been selected and he knows it.

Familiar: How more familiar can you get than snuggling bum to bum?

Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in July

All Purpose Fences

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Fences make for good neighbours. Chatting over a fence is a time honoured pastime. It has the advantage that it keeps the opponents separate.

Fences can also have an important purpose. It can keep toads from being squashed by cars when they have the unsquashable urge to get to the pond were they were spawned. It makes them wait until they are collected and carried over the road.

The fence may be rusty but it is collecting new dummies from toddlers who want to give up an outgrown habit.

Fences can be overcome, sometimes only partially. It depends on the temptation on the other side.

Of course, there are always masters of the art.

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #258: Fences

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