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Experiencing, recognising, learning

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The experiment is called “school” or even “life” – these are primary school kids with a welcoming song for the new kids on their first day of school ever.

This post is for The Daily Post Photo Challenge with the topic experimental. More entries can be found here.

Chickens aren’t the only ones

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The hatchling peeping out of an egg is an Elwetritsch, a mythical creature from the Southwest of Germany. This particular one is part of a fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.  If you want to read up on Elwetritsche (apparently they’ve made their way to the New World where they are known amongst the Pennsylvania Dutch as Elbedritsch) you can look them up on Wikipedia.

This is in response to The Daily Post prompt “Egg” – more eggy posts can be found here.

 

a round of applause

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Most flowers are round by definition, the petals, the leaves, even when jagged have no straight angles.  These arrangements use curves and round elements to showcase the flowers.

These flowerbeds were created for the national garden exhibition in Brandenburg, Germany, in 2016 (Bundesgartenschau).  They show examples of how graves can be planted, and nurseries from all over Germany had small, grave-sized plots showing examples of their work.  Because of the spacial limitations the displays are miniatures with every plant, every petal displayed to perfection.  In fact, I saw gardeners working on the arrangements with little nail scissors clipping leaves for optimum effect.

This is for The Daily Post and more photos with the topic of rounded can be found here.

 

A room with a view

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And what a view that is!  Tomorrow it will be exactly two years that I first visited my friend in her apartment.  It looks out on the lighthouse of Roker Beach in Sunderland.  The middle frame would make a perfect picture.

Other windows can be found here.

Gras – corn – trees

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The Daily Post asked for a picture that showed layers of depth, density, and texture.  I thought this cornfield from the Odenwald fitted the bill.

You can see others’ interpretation here: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/layered/