How many traces will be left after that demolition dinosaur is done?
This is for Paula at Lost in Translation’s Thursday’s Special – Traces of the past.
For more traces of the past, click here.
Tag: Thursday’s Special
The five are back
After the summer break, another: Pick a word from Thursday’s Special.
The fortress in Bitche, France. Fortified against the German/Prussian threat to the East.
The statue of Germania looking to French threat to the West.
Personally, I find him much more chic than any political manifest in stone.
The Alps are also “set in stone” – in this case, the famous Eiger and Jungfrau in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland.
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The Rhine burst its banks in Düsseldorf, way back in 2016.
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Four out of 5
I kind of got lost yesterday (not really but I had a hard time of finding the my car again). Luckily I had my camera with me and going through the photos I found four that would go with the Pick a Word challenge from Paula at Lost in Translation.
Here I was still on track. The gentleman saw me taking pictures and shouted and cajoled me until I had snapped him up. He told me afterwards (after he’d crossed the road and we started talking) that only on the hottest days of the year would he go to the shops dressed like this.
Then I drove into the Odenwald with its beautiful scenery, parked the car and a few hills later I didn’t remember in which forest clearing I had left it.
I came across this pond and for a moment thought I caught a lizard baking in the sun fully expecting the animal to disappear in the water with a splash. It didn’t.
What a beautiful little flower, it truly reminded me of a bird.
Little wonder that I didn’t find anything remotely related to marine considering that the Odenwald is the German mountain range that is furthest away from any saltwater body.
My little envisaged stroll of 15 minutes fresh air had turned into a two hour hike, with so many ups and downs that it was quite strenuous. I’m not sorry, though.
For Lost in Translation: Pick a Word in July.
For more splashy, feathered, scenic and canicular photos, possibly also marine ones, click here.
He’s gonna lose his key again …
Not Lost in Translation but lost in details is Paula’s prompt this week for the Thursday Special.
More lost details or photos lost in details can be found here.
5 words, in and out of the box
There was this pond covered with water lilies, one about to be born like Venus of the watery foam, a nascent life form. Nearby lilac flowers looked like an abundance of writhing snakes pullulating in the bushes. This made me hungry so I went to the famous Viktualienmarkt in Munich with its hundreds of stalls selling victuals of every kind. A car passed by – and I wondered if a nut feels maternal towards bolts, after all in German they are called “Mutter” which means “mother”. And I was back at the pond where a frog pondered reflectively about his eye glancing up at him from the water and he completed the circle quoting “Consider the lilies!” from The Life of Brian.
For Thursday’s Special – pick a word. I’ve picked 5.
To have a look what others made of the challenge, click here.
And a good time was had by all
Obviously, traces of a recent past. Carrying your glass bottles to recycling containers is almost second nature to many Germans, so much so that the capacity of the containers cannot keep up with the thirst of the collectors.
For Paula’s recurring challenge Traces of the Past, a Thursday’s Special.
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There are plenty of fish in the Neckar
Me eyeing a cormorant eyeing the river for his next meal.
For Thursday’s Special: zoom in zoom out. More photos playing with distance and nearness can be found here.
5 words, 5 photos
Thursday’s Special has another pick a word challenge. I picked all five.
The cycle of life
In Germany many people don’t throw their used clothes in the normal garbage but in old clothes (and shoes) containers. Lately, these have been criticised because many companies either just shred the clothes (many of them are still wearable) or they are sent to poor areas in Africa where they are resold and are crippling the local textile industry. This particular company has made a point to explain what they do with the collected clothes: they sort the donated clothes, 70% of which are worn (they don’t say by whom or where), the rest is recycled to make new clothes. They added an interesting fact: to produce a new t-shirt up to 20.000 litre of waters are needed. Recycling is good for the environment, they state. I find it ironic that a plastic bag full of refuse has been dumped right next to the sign.
Again in Germany: most bottles, whether they are made of plastic or glass, carry a deposit and are recycled. Because of the fairly high deposit many needy people scour the bins in the street to collect bottles and hand them in. To make it easier and more dignified for collectors, in some areas people have started to put their bottles next to trash cans rather than in them. So if you see bottles propped up like this next to a tree in Germany it is not littering but a form of recycling.
Last not least, I have also a bench on offer. More original than a very practical recycling trend.
For Thursday’s Special: Recycled. More recycled photos and images can be found here.
ARE YOU ON the right track?
Paula at Thursday’s Special is asking for the theme way. More directional contributions can be found here.
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