Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: the back of things.
Tag: Storch
The storks are back for good
For Six Word Saturday. More six words and accompanying photos are only a click away.
And I need to add this German children riddle song:
Auf unsrer Wiese gehet was, watet durch die Sümpfe.
Hat ein schwarz-weiß Röcklein an, trägt auch rote Strümpfe.
Fängt die Frösche, schnapp, schnapp, schnapp.
Klappert lustig, klapperdiklapp.
Wer kann das erraten?
Something walks in our meadow, wading through the marshes.
It wears a frock that’s black and white,
and also wears red stockings.
It catches frogs, snap, snap, snap.
It clacks merrily, clack, clack, clack.
Who know what this could be?
And so it begins –
“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.”
Destin Sparks
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by this quote from Destin Sparks, click here.
After the harvest surprise
I saw this stork stalking through the cut off wheat stalks (oh my!) and grabbed my camera. If I noticed the two spots in the back to the left of him, I didn’t give them a second thought.
I got closer. Magnificent bird, I thought, totally focused on the stork.
I zoomed in. What a wonderful bird!
Only at home, when I had transferred the photos to my computer and saw them on the larger screen, I realised that those brown, indistinct lumps had ears.
For A Photo a Week: Unexpected. For more unexpected finds, click here.
Stork flies but fly doesn’t
After last week’s One Word Sunday I thought I had to share a stork taking flight; i.e. a stork which flies. Possibly, storks which fly.
Which fly? This fly:
But it wouldn’t fly for me.
For One Word Sunday: Fly. More flying flies or sitting flies or flying birds or flying …, click here.
The same procedure as every year
This is linked to One Word Sunday: change. More changings and changelings and change as such, can be found on Debbie’s Site: Travel with Intent.
Where have all the petals gone?
This flower is only missing a few petals but these poor birds are missing a whole leg:
A one-legged duck.
A one-legged stork.
A one-socked flamingo.
For One Word Sunday: missing. Hopefully not missing are more pictures illustrating the theme – click here.
IFOs – identified flying objects
When we used to live on the highveld in South Africa bright blue skies without a cloud in sight where the order of the day during winter. In reference to a Perry Rhodan story (a German scifi series, published in pulp fiction form) we used to call it “das blaue System” (the blue system – a defense shield around planets which manifested by bright blue skies without any colour gradient). How can I not use the photo of this aircraft with the “Star Wars” logo blazoned across it to illustrate this idea?
Contrary to popular belief, we have blue system skies even in Germany.
For A Photo a Week with the theme blue.
More blue or blueish photos are linked here.
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