I am not a post-card photographer, yet, occasionally, I give in to the wishes of some of my post-card-hungry admirers. Here's a picture of Büdingen, a town about 27 miles from Frankfurt. It's an old town, mentioned as far back as 1287 AD, and was fortunate to escape serious damage in World War II. There's a castle, now used as a hotel, and many, many old houses. Note the timber-framed (Fachwerk) buildings, similar to the British Tudorbethan architecture. Note also the seal of the town shown on the right.
I just got back from my trip to Austria and Germany. Have you have any idea how hard it is to pick one picture out of 900 for my Blog? Well, here it is. I took this one at the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, Germany. This is a city made world-famous by its beautiful Jugenstil (Art-Nouveau) buildings, Russian church, and reflecting pool. Yet what I enjoyed most was the little boy, wading happily through a puddle, totally ignoring his mother's admonitions.
This is a shot of two different species of Lichen. I like 'em both (obviously no pun intended). I took the picture last week on Ring Mountain. Here's a little information for those among you with curious minds ~ Lichen, usually slow-growing organism of simple structure, composed of fungi and photosynthetic green algae or cyanobacteria living together in a symbiotic relationship and resulting in a structure that resembles neither constituent. There are about 25,000 species Lichens commonly grow on rocks, trees, fence posts, and similar objects and require no food source other than light, air, and minerals. They depend heavily on rainwater for their minerals. Lichens can withstand great extremes of temperature.
Today's picture comes to you from the HGR Studios in beautiful downtown Greenbrae, where a reportage about the relationship between a Dragon, named Hermann, and a Dalmatian, by the name of Max, is being screened. Here we see Herman patting Max on the head, while saying "that's a good dog"!
Many different species of birds coexist very peacefully. Here we have a perplexed Canada Goose wondering what the heck the Cormorant is up to. The latter is just drying his/her wings. Meanwhile the Mallards couldn't care less. They were up late the night before and are just taking a little snooze.
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