I normally look out in the other direction. Here I was in the Palatinate looking towards the east, towards the first row of hills of the Odenwald. The Bergstraße is recognisable even in 30 or 40 km distance because of the quarries. Objectively, this is … Continue reading From a Distance
Although he probably wasn’t double-tongued. Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Duplicity
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Eerie
We went to the treetop walkway in Bad Wildbad on the northern edge of the Black Forest in Germany. While the walk way is wonderful – walking at eye level with really high trees – the fascination comes at the end when you see tower. … Continue reading Fascination Treetop Walkway
And for good measure: Weekly Prompt Wednesday Challenge: Simplicity
Susan and Gerry from Weekly Prompts offered the prompt “leaves” for this weeks Wednesday Challenge. It’s autumn and leaves (as in: the plural of leaf) is an obvious choice. I thought about it, obviously, but I thought the competition would be fierce so I’d rather offer a take on an old joke.
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
Lynne Truss, The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenges: Leaves
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I was taking snaps of pretty blooms on a plumbago bush when something flitted around the periphery of my vision. It tried hard to stay on the periphery. It’s a hawk-moth and has been confused with a humming bird (except there are no hummingbirds in … Continue reading Suprise!
At the German Dragon Museum in Lindenfels they have a Tyrannosaurus Rex’ skull. If these teeth aren’t SUPERSIZE, I don’t know what is. And although it is only the cast of a skull, it is protected against THEFT. In the end, is a DINOSAUR not … Continue reading Supersized or Bearded – It’s all just a Dragon to Me
If your bookshelves look like this: you start appreciating open bookshelves like this: making space at home for more book hoarding and sharing your hoarding passion with others (which is better than throwing your books away). Weekly Prompt Wednesday Challenge: Hoarding
The thinking of a child: If I can’t see you, you can’t see me!
Works better the younger you are – even if you are a foal.
And of course, I have many photos of Henry (our cat) pretending he is invisible. Admittedly, he was a lot younger when he still fit in a pizza box.
Our neighbours’ cat Johnny also knows the same trick.
Weekly Prompt Wednesday Challenge: Invisibility
(PS: another WP change I hate: the underline function is gone – let’s hope it’s not permanent)
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