I’ve been doing Dale’s bidding looking for shade for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I went looking in my archive – and aye, there’s the rub. The photos in my archive are tagged in German and German doesn’t make a diffference between “shade” and “shadow” … Continue reading Shade Seekers
In English, shade and shadow are two different things. In German, they are both the same: Schatten. And in the search for shade, I had to include this shot. He managed to get his head and upper body in the the shade, but not his … Continue reading Sought after shade
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
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German doesn’t recogonise a difference between shadow and shade, it’s both Schatten to Germans.
I happen to come across this lovely spot today. To sit in the shade of two majestic linden trees
and look onto the 1200-year-old Einhard basilica, one of very few buildings dating back to the Carolingan area north of the Alps,
and then to go inside and marvel at the shadows which were the same ones looked on by the visitors of the basilica when it was newly built.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Shadows.
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