Six Word Saturday
Tag: sonnenbaden
Soak up the sun
The warmer temperatures have brought out the sunbathers in a local park. I don’t think they could stretch their necks towards the sun any further!
Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Feel the heat.
Do not disturb
This yellow-bellied slider was just sitting there and enjoy the sunlight.
I think his expression just exudes happiness, don’t you think?
And I couldn’t leave without sharing a photo of this gorgeous cat – she was a regular in the local park. People took innumerable photos of her, always claiming that she posed for them. I think she was just enjoying the sun in her favourite spot.
Linked to Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy Challenge: Sitting in the Sun.
No more take offs
There once was an American airfield (Maurice Rose Airfield) in the north of Frankfurt. It was used for helicopters and light aircraft. It was given up in 1992 and the area was actively reformed to become part of the Frankfurt green belt, a landscape conservation area. The runway was made narrower but the length of 750 metres was kept.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. For more streets, avenues, paths, roads click on the badge: 
The turtle doesn’t move
I saw this yellow-bellied slider (a land and water turtle) and three of his closest friends sunbathing this weekend. One of the other turtle’s back is in the foreground and the odd angle of the stretched out neck (no doubt to catch some more sun before winter comes) makes the image almost abstract – one wonders which way the head faces. I prefer the monochrome because it enhances the geometry of the waves in the background, and the head seems even weirder.
Apologies to Terry Pratchett for misquoting him: THE turtle does move. Just this one didn’t.
https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-y1-08/
To cover or not to cover
One word photo challenge is “exposure” this week.
I took this photo last year in May. It’s from the English Garden in Munich, next to a pseudo-Greek, open temple built in the 19th century called Monopteros. The lawns surrounding it have for years been used for sunbathing by the people of Munich. The trend to less and less clothing started in the 1970s with topless students (me amongst them) and nowadays it’s quite normal to take off all your clothes, weather permitting. Ironic only that on my visit the Monopteros itself was covered completely due to repair works.
https://jennifernicholewells.com/2017/02/28/one-word-photo-challenge-exposure/
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