
My final square photo for this month of lines&squares with children lining up. Or is it bloggers already lining up for the next month of squares soon?
Linked to Lines&Squares: #31 in October.

My final square photo for this month of lines&squares with children lining up. Or is it bloggers already lining up for the next month of squares soon?
Linked to Lines&Squares: #31 in October.


There is no such thing as a Gruffalo!
Oh yes, there is! And it lives in our woods. The illustrator Axel Scheffler was there for the Gruffalo’s birthday and the unveiling of the sculpture:
For Six Word Saturday. More six word musings can be found on Travel with Intent.

A rusty sculpture at this winter’s light display at the Luisenpark in Mannheim.
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I tried to find three subjects with a dominant one in the grid position denoting the rule of three.
For A Photo a Week Challenge: The rule of thirds.

This gilded tribute to the three men who made Birmingham great, – referred to alternatively as The Carpet Salesmen or The Three Wise Men – is the city’s thank you to James Watt, William Murdoch and Matthew Boulton. They certainly used a lot of gold.
A Photo a Week. For more gilded photos (literal or otherwise) click here.





This is for Thursday Special: Pick a Word. More marginal, iconic, zoomorphic, cleaved, and propagation photos can be found here.


When we came across this fellow, sitting quietly next to the river Ilmenau in Lüneburg, an American who happened to be standing next to me, felt the need to inform me – quite patronizingly – that this was a famous American writer and he wasn’t quite sure whether I might have heard of him. I informed him – equally condescendingly – that I had read most everything that Mr Samuel Longhorne Clemens had written (which is not a lie, his collected works in English and German are amongst my most cherished books). I added “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” He recognised the quote and we proceeded to have an interesting conversation about Mark Twain.
For One Word Sunday: celebrity.
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