> “You could have told me you were a haemophiliac BEFORE I pricked your ear for the haemoglobin test” she said. “Just KEEP PRESSING the cotton wool to your ear”…
> If only it wood stop snowing. Conditionally speaking, that is… Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
> Technically and artistically, I’m sure I took better photos in 2009. None of them, though, make me drool on my keyboard as this one did Go over here for…
> Some people claim not to shop at Aldi. A bit downmarket, they say. (In England, middle class wimmin with higher aspirations have even been seen using Sainsbury and Waitrose…
> Now, if Eric at Paris Daily Photo hasn’t hot-footed it down to Père Lachaise Cemetery today, I’ll be severely disappointed. Jim Morrison? Doors? No? Ho hum – happens all…
> Now, this is a tricky one. Black and white has the highest colour contrast Yellow and black has the highest hue contrast (Trivial Pursuit sides with the latter, and…
> Schott Glass is very much a Local Hero around here. The company itself has been around for 125 years. Started off in Jena (which was East Germany from…
> As I was pathing (sorry about that – irresistible…) through town the other day, I reflected on the wisdom (or lack of) of getting out your shovel and having…
> As good as any, I’d say. Here’s the original (Although a learned and quite genteel reader pointed out that it’s “artsy-fartsy”, not “arty-farty”. Whatever..) The other 150 are over…
>Public art on the Rhein – this sculpture is called “Zirkulationen im Raum II” by Vojin Bakic. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
> Bookshops aren’t about books. They’re about people. Borders isn’t a real bookshop as far as I’m concerned. It’s just the “mortar” bit in the “Clicks and Mortar” business model.…
> Just a teaser. So you know where I’ll be hanging out on Saturday…
> Mrs jb was insistent that I act my age on occasions… Ho hum. How boring. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants Albuquerque (NM), USA by Helen, American…
> I will not design ugly buildings I will not design ugly buildings I will not design ugly buildings I will not design ugly buildings I will not design ugly…
> Take your partner by the hand…. Mainz has a touch of promiscuity when it comes to partnering. They seem to chat up any likely looking talent and then…
> The Landesgartenschau in Bingen is chock-full of surprises. This guy is BIG. I was somewhat disappointed that his eyes weren’t headlights that light up at night, though……. Click here…
> A slightly PSed “Maison de France”, the home of the Institut Francais on the Schillerplatz in Mayence. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants The rest of the…
>Volker Eckert’s vineyard definitely isn’t on a corner. In fact, it’s on the Hauptstrasse, the main road that runs through the old part of Klein-Winternheim. But semantically, it couldn’t fit…
The weather’s been picking up around here and we’ve been seeing a lot of these cumulus numbers cloud formations recently. Here’s one from the 5th floor of the St Vincenz…
>“Don’t drink water” W.C. Fields is supposed to have said. “Fish frolic in it” Something like that, anyway. He also said that water rusts pipes. Reason enough to stick to…
>…between art and vandalism. The eye of the beholder, as usual….. Adelaide, Australia by Gordon, Albuquerque (NM), USA by Helen, Aliso Viejo (CA), USA by Rodney, American Fork (UT), USA…
>….my mate Johannes. Johannes Gutenberg, that is.Fat chance of that, though Bloody Karneval, more likely… The other 135… Portland (OR), USA – Menton, France – Monte Carlo, Monaco – Memphis…
>Well, there are bridges and bridges… Went to see local blues guitar hero Timo Gross the other night and we got chatting and I took some photographs – some grainy…
>Better late than never… Tricky getting an image of Chagall’s windows in St Stephan’s. Try to take a picture from inside the church and they’ll burn you at the stake,…
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