I’m more of a minimalist when it comes to Christmas decorations. I found these elves or dwarves or whatever they are appealing. A single Christmas bauble can radiate all the Christmas spirit I need. But the best are homemade decorations. The right colours, a little … Continue reading The Right Approach
I don’t know what spooked the stag and his does but they stampeded in a frenzied rush down the ravine. Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Frenzied
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!
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