time keeps flowing. Birkenau (in the Odenwald) is a large village or small town of just under 10,000 inhabitants. It also has more than 200 sun dials, free standing ones and on houses. Since 2021 the record is official: Birkenau has the world record in “laregest … Continue reading Joy or Sorrow
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Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Time
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We had a hot and dry spring, a summer with a wet spell and then hot again. I’ve been enjoying the hot weather tremendously, much more than in recent years for very personal reasons. The heat has come back last week and I took delight in the weather during the last week of my holidays. I took my bike out this afternoon and cycled down the road in the summer sun – when these guys stopped me short.
“Noooooo! Not yet!!”
The geese in the meadow are a stark reminder of summer’s end. These geese will be fattened up for another two months or three to be served either on as traditional goose at Martinmas or as Christmas dinner. Time waits for no one. Not for summer. Not for the geese. Not for me.
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Time will tell if solar power is the solution. My guess: It’s part of the solution.
Time under repair. It was two minutes to nine when the clock stopped and it was well past midnight.
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“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
Dr. Seuss
Linked to Travel with Intent and the weekly quotation.
“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
– Marcel Proust
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For years I drove past this tree on my way to work. It was always there to greet me in the morning and wave to me on my way home.
Then we moved. And when I happen to come past again a couple of years later he had started to look sick. Dry leaves and bare twigs showing in the middle of summer. Another year, and there was neatly stacked wood in its place.
This is how it looked in his last good year:
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