Tag: snowman

Schtri, schtra, schtro – de Summerdag is do

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Technically these pictures were not taken in summer. But “summer’s day” is celebrated each year on Laetare Sunday, i.e. three weeks before Easter. After a spring parade through town a large snowman is burnt to represent the end of winter.

 

In years gone by the snowman was burnt in the town square. For years, the fire fighters have argued that this is not safe with so many people in the square, close to the burning effigy. Covid gave them the ammunition they needed and now the burning takes place in the gardens of the local castle. This picture is from ten years ago:

Sorry for the title. It’s local dialect.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Summer – Fire

A Snowman Before Meltdown

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—————- This is the unedited photo of a snowman with rather unusual facial features.

— This is a filter from photoscape called AF3. ——- The same shot with heavy doses of back light.

—— Another photoscape filter, this time CP2. ——– And finally, an artistic filter called edges.

———– Photoshopped images for the One to Three Processing Challenge in February.

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Body builders

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When you start a snowman you start with the body.

Only then you put the head on the body.

Looking through my pictures of the day I found a shot where I caught the guys carrying the head to the bodyin the background.

One Word Sunday: Body.

Top hat

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A follow up to yesterday’s snow covered tops, I give you a snowman and his inevitable demise. This year the traditional burning of a snowman to drive away winter has been cancelled due to you know what. 

A snowman needs to wear a top hat.  It’s a given.

This is my fifth top square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.

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Sommertagszug

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Every year, three weeks before Easter, we burn winter in our town and we use this occasion for a colourful parade.  It’s called “Sommertagszug”.  Besides the giant snowman there are the two “Butze”, the green one symbolizing summer and the hay one symbolizing winter.

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Almost three thousand particpants from nursery and primary schools dress up and illustrate various spring themes.

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Birds and beetles, flowers and weepy snowmen are part of the displays.

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I love the imagination- and aren’t those little chicklets adorable?

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And these days a lot of fathers accompany their little ones in the parade – and aren’t those two gardening enthusiasts adorable?

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Onlookers line the streets, and the lucky ones have VIP seating.

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Talking about VIP seating: lucky the boy or girl who can rely on dad’s strong shoulders.

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In the end everybody assembles on the market square for a last look on Jack Frost for this year –

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before he goes up in smoke.

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And now the “Bretzel” won’t survive for much longer either.

I only wanted to pick one photo from yesterday’s festival for Cee’s oddball challenge (I particularly delight in the adults proudly wearing ridiculous outfits walking with their toddlers) but it ended in a photo gallery.

https://ceenphotography.com/2017/03/26/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-march-26-2017/