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.
At our town’s spring festival (still a long way off) children dress up as garden gnomes, flowers, gardeners to welcome spring.
For the very small children it is often too far to walk so they are pulled in a wagon.
Some find even that too tiring.
And for the grown-up bikes there is this – the sticker (probably the name of a motorcycle club) is a word pun: abwegig can mean “off the beaten track” but normally it is used to mean “absurd”
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bicycles – tricycles – motorcycles – wagons.
More two or tree or four wheelers can be found here.
Wrong season – but it’s a craft that is practiced every year in our region. There is a parade in many towns on the mid-lent Sunday to welcome spring and burn an effigy of winter. The children carry self-made “Sommertagsstecken”, sticks decorated with loops of colourful paper, a sweet “Bretzel” and a blown egg topped off with a twig of evergreen boxwood. The sticks are made in schools by the children themselves or by the parents at meetings in the days prior to the parade.
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