Is maternal feeling confined to humans?
Is it still guarding when people ignore you?
Can we call it cohabitation if we never see eye to eye?
If I can’t see the bottom does that mean the lake is groundless?
Are there non-variegated guinea fowls?
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word.
I had lived in South Africa for a couple of years when I went back home to visit my mother and walking about our old town with its medieval towers and the baroque castle and the 1000-year- old castle ruin on the hill I suddenly realised that in Johannesburg the oldest building I could come across was barely 50 years old. Whereas in my old home history seemed to stare at me from every corner, my new home seemed devoid of it.
Which is of course, the wrong definition of history. I saw the height of the fight against apartheid, I saw the end of this terrible system (even helped in the tiniest amount – I served tea to a few of the protagonists). I lived through history. Today, this is history. So much so that a statue of one of the heroes of the time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, stands surrounded by gravestones and garden ornaments in the lot of a stonemason in a little town in the Odenwald and is instantly recognised.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: History.
Miaow!
Look at my claw!
It’s definitely a match for this eagle’s claw – who, btw, eats his meat raw.
More claws, in bronze and iron, black and rust.
Personally, I prefer little claws with little birds attached. I just wish those swallows weren’t so high up, and I so low!
Cee’s Midweek Madness: Letter W at the End.
When I saw this naturally occurring snow sculpture on the lip of a wall I immediately remembered a sculpture I have seen a few times in Ladenburg. Do you see the resemblance?
Linked to Weekend Sky #14 which you can visit for more celestial shots.
This sculpture of a man, presumably a church minister, sits in front of a bank in Lindenfels. I couldn’t find out anything else about him.
#1 The original had a lot of things going on in the background.
#2 I edited out the background.
#3 I flipped to negative and tweaked the contrast.
#4 I maxed out saturation.
Linked to One to Three Challenge in December.
The artist Jean Luc Bambara from Burkina Faso has named this sculpture “la protection“. I mainly see a hug, possibly the most human of all actions.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Challenge: Human.
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