Every year our town hosts a fairly large festival. In the old part of town many houses and yards transform into beer gardens and restaurants, the open yards into dancefloors. The food at the traditional places is more or less the same every year: one … Continue reading Standard Fare – Welcome Every Year
The outside is mundane. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Ho-hum
Some things are meant to be cold. Icecream. Beer. Some things just ARE cold. Like this wayside shrine, locally known as “cold Herrgott” because there is always a cold wind blowing over the brow of this hill. And then there is the epitome of cold: … Continue reading Good Cold and Bad Cold
The Weinheim castle was sold to the town in 1938 and the offices of the town administration moved in. When I was little my dad worked for the building authorities, his office was in the third window from the left. I used to visit him … Continue reading Childhood Magic
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking Through
I passed our local townhall earlier today. Since we live only a couple of hundred meters down the road from it, I have more than one photo of the building. It was built around 1680 (an earlier town hall at the same location burnt down) … Continue reading 350 Years of Interesting
Let’s start with a bouquet of flowers in pleasing orange, yellow, and red. In autumn the warm colours of a vineyard is full of promise for the warm colours of next year’s wine. And talking about wine or Wein, this is the view of the old … Continue reading From Wholesome to Hurtful
All the time when I grew up the Wachenburg looked down on the town with a muted, reddish brown roof. I don’t know when the tiles were renewed – I don’t have any photos of the brownish tiles – but one day it was bright red. The … Continue reading Vamped Up
In a part of the woods around here somebody created a Wichtelweg, a path next to which Wichtel, imps or gnomes live. I don’t know if it ever had any official blessings but the word spread amongst parents of small children who liked to go for … Continue reading No Home Owners Association Yet
Cleanliness amounts to beauty in a house. Hospitality amounts to honour in a house. Godliness amounts to blessings for a house. Contentment amounts to happiness in a house. If the above verse is true, than this owl has truly procured happiness: Double dipping for FOWC … Continue reading How to Procure Contentment
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