Lucky 7 Ranch

British Columbia, Canada, June 2009

Linked to signs, signs

Gedankenzüge - Poems moving underground



in German



in English



Culture in the underground U41, Dortmund, 2011

 The underground has a cultural projekt "Gedankenzüge: Dialog between cultures". Poems instead of advertising.

My ABC Wednesday is German, my mother language. And I know a very hard language to learn if you don't learn it from the cradle.

Some quotes from Mark Twain from "A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language"


•"Some German words are so long that they have a perspective."

• "I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a »unique«; and wanted to add it to his museum."

Sometimes I try to imagine how would it be to have English as my first language. Or better be bilingual.

What do you think about? Do you speak another language? And is there any need for?

Open house

Dortmund, February 2012

Linked to Night Shot Monday

Hope



Hope, BC, Canada, June 2009 

 Linked to Mural Monday at Oakland Daily Photo

Hiking in beautiful BC ...



... means places like that.



Kettle River, British Columbia, Canada, July 2009

Linked to Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Inside reflections

yesterday

Linked to Weekend Reflections

Go



Dortmund, yesterday


Linked to The Weekend in Black and White and to Friday Fences

Unfinished construction

Romania, 2008

Linked to Sky Watch Friday

Fairy-tale forest

On our hike in British Columbia, Canada, June 2009

Linked to ABC Wednesday

I call it grass, but it isn't

Linked to Our World Tuesday

It's hot outside

Khartoum, Sudan, May 2010

Linked to Mellow Yellow Monday

Hard work

In Kozhikode, Kerala, India, December 2008

Linked to Straight out of the Camera Sunday

Ruhr Museum

At the UNESCO World Heritage Zeche Zollverein, Essen, September 2007

Linked to Weekend Reflections

On the road in Kenya

In the south of Kenya

In Nairobi, April 2010

Linked to Sky Watch Friday.

I walk down an alley ...

In Kozhikode, Kerala, India, December 2008

... I’d never seen before and experience a moment of great happiness.

- Orhan Pamuk -


Linked to Mellow Yellow Monday

Penguins at Boulders Beach #2

African penguins at Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, South Africa, February 2010

More penguin pics in this post if you missed it last week.

500 posts already. When I started, I only thought about starting.

Linked to Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Hot and cold

Old house #2

Haus Langendreer, Bochum, February 2012

This is part from the old house which I posted last year.

Haus Langendreer was part of a manor, it's mentoined first 1266.

Linked to The Weekend in Black and White

Delivering rice with 1613 Turbo

in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, December 2008

In the warehouse: Which rice do you want to buy?

It was our first town while traveling in India. We stayed there seven weeks. Kozhikode (Calicut) has no typical tourist attractions. It's where the pepper grows. Direct on the Indian Ocean. With awesome fishing villages.

We like to travel slow, meet the same people again and again, become friends, get to know the streets and places. And wonder. And see. And taste.

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D is for ...



Dortmund with the famous Dortmunder U or U-Tower 




opposite from the station




Main station Dortmund, February 2012





Entrance hall

 Dortmund.

Every day I change my train here. It's 10 kilometers from my home. You may have seen some more pics from the city here.

This is my contribution for ABC Wednesday.

And I link it to Weekend Reflections.

Weekend hike

Thomas in the grass

The Sauerland is the nearest low mountain range from Lünen. We had a fantastic hike, with sunshine and tempratures around -10°C (14°F) and very little snow. And Thomas is now old enough to walk all the way.

Great to be outdoors.

Linked to Our World Tuesday

Hauptbahnhof #4

Dortmund main station, February 2012

I'm waiting for my morning train and enjoy to take photos. Usually I'm there 20 Minutes later, but it is less crowded with this earlier train.

If you like to see some more pics from the Hauptbahnhof (main station in German) go to this post or to this one and here is one more.

Reading means borrowing

Again my favorite library: Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Dortmund, public library. February 2012

Quote from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

I love libraries - 6

My library: Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Dortmund, public library. Yesterday.

For more pics and reflections from this library (and some other) look here.
Linked to Weekend Reflections

Last light - going home

Today afternoon, Dortmund Hauptbahnhof (Main station)

My first ever collage.

Linked to Sky Watch Friday

Penguins at Boulders Beach

African Penguin

 

Boulders Beach, Cape Peninsula, South Africa, February 2010

 

Andreas at the swimming beach, usually the penguins are at the next beach

 Linked to Watery Wednesday

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