Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Gardens
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Tag: #Wednesday Quotes
Aragorn, Is that You?
“From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
Definitely a renewed blade, look how shiny it is. Who is holding it, though? I have no idea. The sculpture is overlooking the Place of the Republic in Plsen, Czech Republic.
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Photographers Beware!
“But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed, it’s even more true that it changes the observer.”
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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A Vivid Promise
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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Not a Seagull, a River Neckar Gull
Wordless Wednesday
Where Would I Cycle Without Bridges?
I’ve gone off on a tangent, I admit, but once I found the Jack London quote I just had to.
“Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you’re going to smash up. Well, now, that’s something! And then go home again after three hours of it…and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
Jack London
Although there were motorbikes as early as 1885, the way Jack London describes it I believe he was talking about cycling. Which is also born out by a number of mountain bike tracks named after the author.
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The Good Order
“WE KNOW THERE IS NO GOOD ORDER EXCEPT THAT WHICH WE CREATE.”
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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Why Not, Indeed?
“So why the pelican? Said Haskoll.
Adam Rex, Unlucky Charms
The thief was giving Haskoll a look that said, Man, why NOT the pelican?”
These contraptions are cleaning the water of the local lake (not a natural one, but excavated) and are called pelicans. A part of the function is to circulate the water from below to the surface.
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Godless and Immoral
“The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The architect and artist Hundertwasser was a well known adversary of the straight line, and hence the geometrical grid. The photos are of the Hundertwasser House in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt.
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