Jude’s Travel Words blog’s Life in Colour challenge this month is the color pink, and this week’s focus is on pink architecture.
I found a lot of pink buildings (and other colors) in Germany, when we were on a river cruise. These three are in Bamberg.
More in Nuremburg
Here’s a lovely balcony in Regensburg.
These are in Passau.
And finally, much closer to home, is a pink painted shop in Highwood, Illinois.
Here’s the doorway:
Cee continues her transportation theme in her Fun Foto Challenge with motorcycles, tricycles, and bicycles.
Terri Webster Schrandt has a Sunday photo challenge, Sunday Stills. The theme this week is straight.
Apartment building (Woodstock, IL)
Here’s a place I’ve really been missing the last few months – the library! (Des Plaines, IL)
Under these floor tiles, several hundred people were buried during the Middle Ages! (Oude Kerk, Amsterdam)
Bridges: Pegasus Bridge (Normandy, France)
Bridge over a river on the border of Germany and Austria (near Scharding, Austria)
A tall house (Mont St-Michel, France)
Entrance to a graveyard (Merville-Franceville-Plage, France)
A straight and narrow street in Passau, Germany
Ornate fence in front of the World Museum in Vienna, Austria
There is a dachshund museum in Passau, Germany! Outside are dachshund statues stacked on top of each other.
The top dogs in these photos are the planters!
Due to lack of time, I did not go inside the museum.
Becky’s April Squares with the topic of TOPS!
These are random windows in Passau, Germany that I took last July, for Ludwig’s Monday Window photo challenge.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is about pointing your camera upward!
Moose antlers chandelier at Claim Jumper Restaurant in Hoffman Estates, IL
Looking up at the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt
Flying gull, Sea of Galilee, Israel
Looking up toward the glass ceiling of a greenhouse at the Chicago Botanic Gardens’ orchid show
Solar eclipse, August 2017 at Chicago Botanic Gardens. I took this photo by pointing my cellphone upwards, covering the screen with the filter from my eclipse glasses.
Dome at Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines
Looking up from under the center of the Eiffel Tower, Paris
Domed window panels, O’Hare Airport, Chicago
Looking up over a doorway in Wurzburg, Germany
Regensburg Cathedral spire, Germany
Statue of King Ludwig I, Regensburg, Germany
Ornamentation on top of a building in Passau, Germany
The German city of Passau is located in Bavaria very close to the Austrian border, at the confluence of three rivers: The Danube, the Inn and the Itz. It was the last German city we stopped at during our cruise last June-July. We arrived at Passau on the U.S. Independence Day, July 4. This post is my contribution to Norm’s Thursday Doors 12/12/19.
Passau has a population of about 50,000, of which 12,000 are students at the local university. A devastating fire in 1662 destroyed most of the city, which was rebuilt in Baroque style.
Passau is known for its cathedral, St. Stephan, which has five organs! One of the organs is in the attic and the five can all be played at the same time. The organ(s) has 17,774 pipes and 233 registers, and it is the 2nd largest pipe organ in the world. We attended a concert showcasing this amazing sound after our walking tour. Concerts are held daily between May and September.
In this square behind St. Stephan Cathedral is a statue of Maximilian I, the first king after Napoleon.
A cathedral door and details
Same door from the inside
Baroque décor characterizes the interior of St. Stephan.
The main organ is in the traditional place in the back of the cathedral.
The priest used to say mass from this golden pulpit, but now stands behind a podium adorned with the eagle of St. John (photo below).
We went out into a courtyard beside the cathedral.
In the courtyard are some extra panels and artifacts from the church.
This angel head fell off during a fire in the church. It gives a perspective of the true size of the sculptures in the church.
We continued downhill from the church on the cobblestone streets of Old Town.
The city has been plagued by floods for centuries, due to its location at the junction of three rivers. On June 2, 2013, the old town suffered a severe flooding after it had rained for several days. The photo below shows how a street of Old Town looked on June 3.
Peak elevation of floods as far back as 1501 are displayed on the wall of the Old City Hall.
This glass door is for 16 and 18 Hell Alley! The narrow street gets its name from its proximity to the river.
Looking down Hell Alley, also known as Artists’ Alley, which is lined with small shops and cafes.
Hotel Wilder Mann
This pharmacy is one of the oldest in Passau. It is painted green, which was the “code” color for pharmacies in times when many people were illiterate.
The Dom Museum entrance – this museum displays artifacts, relics and history of St. Stephan Cathedral.
This door at the former bishop’s palace was deliberately built above the ground. It now belongs to the Dom Museum.
Baroque architectural details adorn the ceiling of the palace.
Passau has a Daschsund Museum! These sculptures are outside the entrance.
“Coffee and love are best hot!”
I found interesting that this shop door has a nativity scene above it.
The sign on this Baroque decorated door advertises a one-bedroom apartment within.
Religious statues high up on exterior walls of Old Town are seen commonly in towns throughout Bavaria.
Prominent above the city is Veste Oberhaus, a fortress founded in 1219.
Information for this post obtained from:
author’s notes
Wikipedia article Passau
TripAdvisor The Höllgasse
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with her color series – this week it is pastel colors.
Some flowers are bright, while others have muted colors. Most marigolds are bright, but these are soft yellow and white.
Dahlias come in all colors – some are bright, some are light.
Wilted orchid
Artists experiment with all kinds of color schemes. These are some pastel colors in artwork.
“Hazel” (2019) in pastels – artist is yours truly!
A recent exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute featured drawings by 17th century Dutch masters. This pair is “A Portrait of a Man” and “A Portrait of a Woman” by Jan de Bray (1650) – black & red chalk on ivory laid paper.
Edouard Manet “Vase of White Lilacs and Roses” (1883) – oil on canvas
Pastels in sculptures
Fish sculpture, Poulsbo, WA
Chinese Reconciliation Park, Tacoma, WA
Pastel buildings – Passau, Germany
Baroque stucco roof
Carved block from a church
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is my favorite color: Green!!
Here’s an essay I wrote years ago about green, in a series about colors. Yes, I know this is a PHOTO challenge but I am going to try to combine the photos and narrative.
Green is the best color because it is the color of nature: plants and trees are green.
Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA
When it rains, everything looks greener than ever.
Above Omaha Beach, Normandy, France the day after a rainstorm
In fact, “green” is the new code word for the environmentally conscious. If you are green, you are committed to recycling and conserving the natural resources of our Earth.
I knew I would find something like this in Copenhagen! In the hotel room, a recycling wastebasket!
Green is a combination of two primary colors, blue and yellow, so it has the coolness of blue and the brightness of yellow.
One of Monet’s most famous water lilies paintings shows how an artist mixes and juxtaposes colors to get the desired effect. Various shades of blue and green with splashes of brighter colors make this painting feel cool, lush and pleasing. This painting hangs at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
There are many hues of green, created by adding more blue for a deeper, darker green or more yellow for a lighter or brighter green.
This special exhibit at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam uses multi-media to take us into the world of Vincent Van Gogh.
Green is everywhere. It’s the color of land on a globe because the land looks green from space.
It’s the color of leaves in the summer …
and pine trees all year round. (Both photos taken in northern Wisconsin.)
It’s one of the colors of Christmas!
At Macy’s on State St. in Chicago, Dec. 2018
When I see a stand of evergreens, I smell the aroma associated with them – the sharp smell of pine. Pine candles are green and I love to smell them!
Scene on the Bearskin Bike Trail in northern Wisconsin
Green is the color of many good things to eat: lettuce, spinach, broccoli, peas, beans, sweet peppers. These foods are healthy too, so it’s important to eat them every day. Green represents how plants eat: chlorophyll makes leaves green and it is chlorophyll that captures energy from sunlight and converts it into food for the plant. We humans get some of this energy when we eat green foods.
This is a great book! I recommend it to anyone who desires to eat sensibly and environmentally friendly.
Humans can learn a lesson from the plants and capture sunlight for our own energy needs. In a greenhouse, sunlight comes in and keeps plants warm as well as provides energy for them to stay healthy. We too can be “green” by eating healthy foods, consuming renewable energy from the sun, and enjoying the beauties of nature: the brown earth, the green grass and plants, and the multitude of colors of flowers, birds, butterflies and other creatures.
Butterfly garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, July 2018
People who like green will use green for things in their daily life – drive a green car, wear green clothes, or maybe paint a door green!
Passau, Germany
American cemeteries are usually covered in green grass which is kept neatly mowed. Green is often conducive for quiet contemplation.
More than 9,000 men were buried at the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. All died during the Battle of Normandy which started on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
French cemeteries are not covered with green grass, but loved ones of the deceased often decorate their graves with flowering plants. This cemetery is at Merville-Franceville-Plage.
I captured these two in a narrow street behind St. Stephan’s Cathedral in Passau, Germany. The dog seems to be guarding the euro coins passers-by have put into the musician’s makeshift bowl.
Posted for IdahoBlueBird’s Animal of the Day (AOTD) 9/28/19.
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