Stretching an literally far-reaching The common kestrel has a wide-ranging hunting ground, individually as well as a species. The Swiss Alps always offer panoramic views, this one from the Berner Oberland. Ladenburg, the Neckar, the Odenwald – a scenic combination. Thursday Special – January 2024
Starting at the top left (but it’s a circle so you can go round and round and round): The name of our traditional town festival (Kerwe) is painted on the hoarding. — The painted mural depicts a woman wearing a medieval dress. — Philipp Melanchthon lived … Continue reading The Circle of Five
Thursday Special: Pick a Word in November
“Gimme back the ball! I want to throw it!! I’m feeling playful!!!” “Look it! Look it! It’s thingy … you know, whatshisname? – WALLY! He is so distinctive!” “Let’s go ride. But let’s swop saddles. This one is more comfortable on a horse.” “They must … Continue reading Sayings with Exclamation Marks
Nautical: A fishing boat in front of Roker Pier in Sunderland.
Splendid: In the 18th century the Mannheim Palace was larger than the palace of Versailles.
Refraction: A circumzenital arc (not a rainbow) or the sky smiling.
Selected: A sculpture in the spa gardens of Bad Dürkheim. He’s been selected and he knows it.
Familiar: How more familiar can you get than snuggling bum to bum?
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in July
The Upper Rhine Valley stretches from Basel in Switzerland to above Frankfurt. It’s up to 40km wide. In Bingen the valley narrows and becomes a gorge. On both sides of the upper and middle Rhine is wine growing country.
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word – June 23
Azure: A red kite flying high against backdrop of an azure blue sky.
Crag: Ladders help the climbers on the Fellhorn crag in the Bernese Alps.
Prehistoric: This fossilized piece of a redwood tree is really pre-prehistoric.
Bovine: Scotish highland cattle are the hippies amongst their bovine comrades.
Peninsula: Sometimes a man’s hairline recedes in such a way that the hirsute remnants look like a peninsula in the ever-growing sea of skin.
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in April
I’ll start with the little guy who moved in with us today. I don’t know if he really qualifies since for me he is a personified muppet – remember Beaker? – can a cactus one personify a muppet?
This is a Roman burial mount in Oberlöstern in the Saarland. There are two tumuli and the names of the people interred here are not known.
This is the town wall from Aigues Mortes in the South of France.
A laugh without guile.
And last not least, a two for one. To the day, 6 years ago. What were they up to?
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word – March 2023
We have a public bathing area at our local lake but youngsters like to go swimming in a little cove where there are no regulations, locally called “Bay of Pigs”.
Louis and Charly: handsome, debonair and the dandies of the neighbourhood.
Look at the size of that dog! Isn’t he gigantic?!
The texture of an often-pruned grapevine, wood, moss and lichen.
A window with one eye open.
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