Jez oddity today is a door in an odd place. I think I can top the oddness – imagine stepping out of this door and falling in a little scream — 😂 oh, what a beautiful typo! I had to leave it. The stream is called Gerberbach and was an artificial branch of the Grundelbach servicing the tanners living in this quarter. They lived right on the water and often had small bridges outside their doors, often now dismantled.
With or without bridge, it’s odd, isn’t it?
… two pelicans, showing heart. A cute, if a bit odd, couple. More hearts are on Cee’s blog.
A combined inspiration: Becky’s oddity of the day inspired this posting. As did Margaret’s. Oddviously.
Tom’s odd square #11 which he took from an odd angle came to mind when I looked at these photos of the same five (sic!) trees. They look like they are the same height in summer and different heights in winter. For a moment I thought it was because of the difference in the seasons but realised then that the variance is due to the different angles. Odd, isn’t it?
Geriatri’x’ Spiderman oddity reminded me of this odd gable decoration. Spiderman holds a special place in our family. We do not consider that odd.
Aletta is showing off oddly coloured eggs for her tenth square today. She has included an explanation about chicken egg colours – however, bright blue, red, yellow, orange and green was not explained. I’m sure the chicken would find these colours odd. They probably also think some odd thoughts about the bunny who takes their eggs each year only to distribute them to children.
Becky showed us webs filled with carterpillars of ermine moths as an oddity. Yes, there are ermine moths in central Europe as well. Only we call them “Gespinstmotten” here (literally: spinning moths). Which again sounds oddly similar to “Gespenst”, meaning ghost or wraith or spooky.
This is the tower of the Auerbach Castle near Bensheim, seen through the lattice works of bare winter trees.
It was originally built in the 8th century and fell into ruin once before but was rebuilt under the reign of Count Diether IV of the Katzenelnbogen in the 13th century. Katzenelnbogen literally means “cat’s ellbow”. Go figure.
I took my inspiration today from the ruined abbey as seen by Sue on her odd post.
Debbie’s spinning lights reminded me of this light installation, equally colourful if not spinning.
FIVE colourful hoops – odd numbered.
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