Tag: Thursday’s Special

Merry Go Round

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Since one of the words in Paula’s Thursday’s Special Pick a Word was CONTINUITY I thought I start with a circle because every photos has two of the words in it.

The Red Mosque situated in the palace gardens of the Schwetzingen Castle is turned inward with continuing elements: INWARD + CONTINUITY.

The Walderdorffer Hof in Bensheim, build around 1395 is considered to be the oldest completely preserved half-timbered house in the southern part of the state of Hesse: CONTINUITY + REFLECTION.

One of the high rise buildings in Frankfurt am Main, a stronghold of the European banking industry: REFLECTING + STRONGHOLD.

Veste Otzberg on a hill in the Odenwald was built as a stronghold and can only be reached on foot: STRONGHOLD + PEDESTRIAN.

Whether you consider the walk of this tortoise pedestrian or its whole demeanour pedestrian there is no doubt that this animal can turn inward if it needs to be: PEDESTRIAN + INWARD.

Thursday Special: Pick a Word

Medieval Remnants

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In medieval times, the town of Weinheim was surrounded by a town wall with four towers. Three of these towers remain today.

Blauer Hut – Blue Hat
Hexenturm – Witches’ Tower
Roter Turm – Red Tower

Bonus Fact: No witches were ever held in the Witches’ Tower. It was never used as a prison.

For this post, I chose a different word of the five on offer.

Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word

Five Questions

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Is maternal feeling confined to humans?

Is it still guarding when people ignore you?

Can we call it cohabitation if we never see eye to eye?

If I can’t see the bottom does that mean the lake is groundless?

Are there non-variegated guinea fowls?

Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word.

Five from the Rhein Neckar Metropolitan Area

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The quintessential mother and baby swimming in the river Neckar.
A multifarious sports' mural is brightening up a residential area in Mannheim.
Itinerant workers are needed to bring in the harvest of strawberries and asparagus of the Rhine valley.
The shoreline is mirrorred in the water of the Weinheimer Waidsee.
Portuguese dancers are showing of their ethnic costume at the Weinheim spring festival.

Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word.

I’d rather be with the cow

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Lots of action in Pick a Word this time.



Bavaria and her quadriga of lions – looking towards Munich or facing away, a volte-face, depending on your position.

A stork taking to the sky, soaring upwards and away.

Little Red Riding Hood revealing the real story of her wolf, a lunar or lunatic story.

But faced with this impregnable wall

I’d really rather join the cow, reposing on a bale of hay.

Linked to Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word.

African Anamnesis

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I’ve done two versions. Take your pick.

Zakes Mda is a South African writer whom I got to know first as a playwright. His plays were performed at the Johannesburg Market Theatre. In The Heart of Redness he writes about Nongqavuse, a Xhosa girl who prophesied the exodus of the British settlers if her people were to kill their cattle and burn their crops. This resulted in a massive famine in 1856/57 in the area of the Eastern Cape, with an estimated 20,000 people dying and many more deplaced. Mda shifts from the historical perspective to the present to illustrate the interplay of history, myth and present day reality.

Linked to Thursday’s Special: Make a book cover.

Gallimaufray on Thursday

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So far I’ve only used “gallimaufry” (a chance find in a dictionary) as a title for a few of the Sunday colour collages for Aino’s Värikollaasit but now that I have actually heard it used in a Dr Who episode (in one of the first episodes with Peter Capaldi as the Doctor – I’m a bit behind in watching) I will use it more often for any hodgepodge collection for which I can’t find a unifying title.

62 marsh

a marsh willowherb

 

62 shack

(a ramshackle) shack

62 scarlet

a scarlet ibis

Northern Bald Ibis Waldrapp

Since the scarlet ibis was hiding a bit, here is a hadeda ibis with its stately gait and glossy colours.

Kusins

Those two are best of friends, not related but looking it. A symbiotic relationship that is great to watch.

I managed five out five for Paula’s Thursday Special: Pick a Word in October.  Find more stately shacks symbiotic with scarlet marshes here.