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Tag: Weinheim
Grappling for a Hold
This eagle sitting on a sphere (not a world sphere just a ball) is watching over a war memorial for the fallen of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71. He doesn’t look happy maybe because he was a visionary seeing more wars to come.
Monday Portrait
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Upper Flakeycreek
No, the proper name of the location is not that but it’s a literal translation. I was getting my daily walk yesterday afternoon in by driving into the hills and just before the sun went down I was rewarded with that view.
Vanishing Transportation Ways
A country road in southwestern Germany, a waterway (Canal La Basse) in France. Geometric Square #11
Summer Mementoes
Whenever I search my archive for the tag “water” my toy photography pics come up first (due to the way I’ve organised my files). And since no new water pictures have come in I thought I feature a sunny photo of my little grandma in … Continue reading Summer Mementoes
Unexpected
It was cold and I rushed and when I got home I thought I had missed a blimp or a Zeppelin in the sky when I looked at the last photo on my camera SD-card.
I didn’t. It’s a leaf. Last on the camera’s SD-card.
Our grandkid’s backpack has been lying in front of this sideboard for days (tidying is no one’s favourite around here). And now it has started to sprout fur.
Last on the phone’s SD-card.
PS: I spent the last minutes of 2024 and the first hour of 2025 locked up with my husband and our cat and a bottle of bubbly in our bedroom because Henry wasn’t at all happy about the noise outside. We could eliminate the light effects by closing the shutters but couldn’t completely keep the noise outside. Henry was hiding under the bed while we were toasting the new year. And afterwards I had time to sit a the pc waiting for the youngsters to come back inside (they had gone into the nearby vineyards to shoot off their fireworks).
For Brian’s Last on the Card in December
Last not Least
Currently housebound I can hope for a White Christmas (highly unlikely according to the weather firecasts). But I can look at my photos of last January. for the snow Otherwise it’s the smaller motives I was most drawn to this year. Lens-Artists Challenge #329: Last … Continue reading Last not Least
Billygoat with Bacchus Children
eventuell anderes Bild von der Skkulptur benutzen –> Vergleich
The white sculpture on the left stands in the palace gardens of Schwetzingen Palace. The original was crafted from stone and originally painted annually with white lead pigment paste which made them stand out and protected them. In the 19th century the natural grey colour of the stone was preferred but the sculptures were eroded by the elements. Today the originals are under cover in a hall called Lapidarium (collection of stone sculptures), and the statues in the grounds are copies made of synthetic resin or cast bronze.
The withered stone replica is found about 15km to the north-east in the botanical garden in Weinheim, called Hermannshof. At the time when this sculpture was installed in the late 19th century it was the private garden of a local industrialist family.
It was pure coincidence that I realised that these three Bacchus children playing with a billygoat were identical and that I had photos that were taken from almost the exact angle.
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