without a decent bridge.
Or something to that effect. St Nepomuk must have been a speaker even if it isn’t passed down what he said.
Tag: statue
Mother Mary
One Word Sunday: Shadow
Foggy Veneer
Run-up to Halloween. Eighth day of October. Fog.
A toothy perspective
And while I was remembering Munich yesterday, here is the statue of Bavaria – the lady and her lion who each year (except for this one) overlook the Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese.
My Square Perspective no. 9 is linked to The Life of B.
Bronze
When I think of bronze I imagine it as a polished, smooth metal but often bronze sculptures are anything but smooth. This statue of the Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author Martin Mordechai Buber in Heppenheim an der Bergstraße shows the foliated texture and how this fosters colour.
Linked to A Photo a Week: texture.
Who would I be to argue with a Marx?
“I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.”
Groucho Marx
And so we turned our backs on Britain when we visited. The weather was just too gorgeous.
Linked to Travel with Intent: quotations.
They made it happen
This gilded tribute to the three men who made Birmingham great, – referred to alternatively as The Carpet Salesmen or The Three Wise Men – is the city’s thank you to James Watt, William Murdoch and Matthew Boulton. They certainly used a lot of gold.
A Photo a Week. For more gilded photos (literal or otherwise) click here.
The creature of the green belt
A few years ago I came across this sign in Frankfurt. I found it intriguing and yes, odd. I had no idea what that animal, if it actually is one, was supposed to be. I’ve since seen a few more signs with the same creature in different poses, unfortunately I don’t always carry my camera.
Yesterday – finally! – I found out the story behind it. The creature was sitting happily on a pedestrian bridge crossing the river Nidda.
And a sign beneath it proclaimed it to be the GrünGürtel-Tier.
This is a play on words which needs to be explained: Gürteltier is a actually an armadillo but literally a belt anmial, Grüngürtel is the greenbelt surrounding a city for urban recreation, hence this is the GreenBelt Animal. Rather whimsical, I think.
Here is some more information if you are interested but only in German: https://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=4132 .
For Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge. More oddball photos can be found here.
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