creamy

French Alps, SOTC:straight-out-of-the-camera

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Creamy landscape (click to enlarge) ... because many times when I am skiing I feel I am in a huge bowl of Chantilly Cream..!! (the sweetened whipped cream, sometimes vanilla-flavoured, which it is said to have been invented by François Vatel, maître d'hôtel at the Château de Chantilly in the 17th century.)

Friday, three weeks ago

Walking along the same path where I photographed the homes from the prior posts!

An Award: the generous and wonderful Thom shared with me this "One Lovely Blog Award". Thank you very much, Thom, I truly appreciate your kind gesture and I will proudly display it on my site! Disclaimer: I never follow the tagging rules...

windows, thatched roofs, and more...

A closer look to the homes seen on my prior post. These pictures were taken at the Baltic Sea in Germany. I particularly liked the thatched roofs and the roof ornaments. And enjoyed seeing many windows!

Love these windows under the roof:

Detail of a roof ornament and unusual window:

And below is the whole home:

Here you could see through one window from the road to the Baltic Sea!

window views
AND I found another theme: theme thursday : r o o f

beach homes

wordless wednesday
Baltic Sea, Heiligenhafen, Germany

here comes the sun

l o c k

lock (n.) 2. A section of a waterway, such as a canal, closed off with gates, in which vessels in transit are raised or lowered by raising or lowering the water level of that section.

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I took this picture in Narbonne, France, last July at high noon, which is not the best moment to use the camera! Narbonne is linked to the nearby Canal du Midi (which joins the Atlantic to the Mediterranean) and the Aude River by the above pictured Canal de la Robine, which runs through the centre of town and it has six single locks.

Northern snapshots

True Colours Thursday: ivory Window Views

We flew with a popular low-cost Irish airline to Germany, the small airport was located near Lübeck (about 60 Km/ 38 miles from Hamburg) and that's where we went for dinner that evening. We were welcomed by this peaceful scenery, displaying many windows and some ivory buildings...

This is a major landmark, the Holstentor, a late Brick Gothic city gate, the only still existing one beside the Burgtor and part of the medieval fortifications of Lübeck . It used to appear on the back of the 50 DM banknote: (Update- 50 DM would be 25 euros today or USD 35)

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back to regular blogging... I think

I have been busy outside the blogosphere! the prior post was meant to let you know I am alive yet away from the keyboard, thanks to those who visited and more so to those who left a comment!! Now it's time for Jientje's A Thousand words in Idioms. "The idea is to pick an idiom, or a saying, (even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet". Here are my choices, pulled -again- from the archives (the first one with a bit of fun editing). Skipped last week's letters as I was away...yes, it's been a time of very erratic blogging!

Move mountains
If you would move mountains to do something, you would make any effort to achieve your aim. When people say that faith can move mountains, they mean that it can achieve a lot.

French Alps

Not my cup of tea
If something is not your cup of tea, you don't like it very much.

quickest post ever

because I am very busy!!

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I got home a little after midnight today after spending one week away. I had this week's photo hunt in mind and since I was in ( Northern) Germany I could easily spot... beer advertisement!! I found a special snapshot at the Dieksee (a lake in Holsteinische Schweiz, Schleswig-Holstein), featuring the advertisement flags plus a real duck (sunbathing on the right) and a fake fishing guy (it's a mannequin!). Below find a windy view of the Baltic Sea...and more beer advertisement.