



Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Crooked or Squiggly Lines.

Linked to Lines&Squares: #27 in October.

Here is a long shot of the lake in Böblingen, where I took this picture, to explain the extraordinary colour, right in the middle:

PS: The title is a word pun crossing German-English lines. Mallards are called “stock ducks” (Stockenten) in German.
For K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: reflection.
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Linked to Simply Reflections.

What is on the water and at the same time in the water? Poles and their reflection, of course.

A single pole will do.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: in and on the water.
More watery photos can be found here.


To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
– Brassaï
Another quote by Debbie on Travel with Intent. More photos inspired by this saying are found here.

I am Henry the cat I am
Henry the cat I am I am
I moved in with the people next door
They’ve had several cats before
And all of them were pussycats
They woudn’t have a tomcat or a male (no Tom!)
I’m their first tomcat, I’m Henry
Henry the cat I am.
Apologies to Hermann’s Hermits.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, Cee picks a photo and you see what you take from it.
This is the photo she picked for this week:

To see what others did with this, click here.






There was this pond covered with water lilies, one about to be born like Venus of the watery foam, a nascent life form. Nearby lilac flowers looked like an abundance of writhing snakes pullulating in the bushes. This made me hungry so I went to the famous Viktualienmarkt in Munich with its hundreds of stalls selling victuals of every kind. A car passed by – and I wondered if a nut feels maternal towards bolts, after all in German they are called “Mutter” which means “mother”. And I was back at the pond where a frog pondered reflectively about his eye glancing up at him from the water and he completed the circle quoting “Consider the lilies!” from The Life of Brian.
For Thursday’s Special – pick a word. I’ve picked 5.
To have a look what others made of the challenge, click here.
