Date(s): 2009. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 46 of 46 Total. 3907 Visits.
1 BNR PS 060 will the weather hold
2 BNR PS 061 will the weather hold The picture is slightly shooped. One slice of wheat field is form a second picture. Artistic license.
3 BNR PS 063 public pool The subvention amount per ticket (indoor 10,20 EUR, outdoor 3,18 EUR) is indicated. Just to soften the price hike. (There are probably other issues.)
4 BNR PS 064 public pool An 800,- EUR hair dryer. Just quote that. Semi official source. A batch of equivalent heavy duty hotel room models on Alibaba.com could be ordered for a fraction of that price. (Kickbacks accepted.) Will concede that the attachment is rather scrounge proof. Some slide rule elegance even. On the minus side: rather high break down rate.
Will add the instructions for the use of a makeshift hair dryer (just in case): Hold an immersion heater in one hand and a fan in the other. Align.
5 BNR PS 065 public pool Second hand Hockney title 'a bigger splash'. (Supplementary Zen wisdom: if you wait long enough everything is bound to happen.)
6 BNR PS 066 public pool Brochure view
7 BNR PS 069 public pool
8 BNR PS 079 public pool caught in a sudden shower
9 BNR PS 079 public pool Hiroshige The matching Hiroshige picture is from the Tokaido Highway set. ['Rain scene of Shono'] Could not come up with a sedan chair. Probably not the right kind of highway.
10 BNR PS 080 public pool
11 BNR PS 087 public pool
12 BNR PS 088 public pool Overflowing lost and found corner.
13 BNR PS 089 public pool Batten the hatches. Toned down: a ground sheet covered pinball machine (it is not exactly a pinball machine but something with pivoting soccer players - a second player usual pinch hits for the missing GI [gravitational intelligence]. Close enough). - The original purpose of the concrete pedestal (just visible behind the pinball machine) is still hotly debated. Pre handy time secrets. It is unlikely that it ever showcased a Praxiteles athlete in disk thrower pose.
14 BNR PS 068 tether stone This is a so called tether stone. Dating back to a time when lighter than air craft were still much more common. Ice Age lore: erratic blocks were once used in exactly the same way. (If Velikovsky and Dänicken can get away with it.) More humble side use: a place for wringing out your swimming trunks. Washer woman's special. (You can do Morse code all day by slapping wet laundry against boulders.) Conjectural: Scriptural foot washing. - The faucet holes are empty. Probably not the original location. Covering rosettes will once have concealed the rough edges.
15 BNR PS 090 public pool gender specific means of transportation
16 BNR PS 091 public pool Perpendicular feed in point into a bicycle lane. The flow control bar is nearly a work of art. (Duchamp, everyone is a winner.)
Bicycle lane hogging is not uncommon. Particularly by densely compacted, supervised groups of pedestrians. Nearly unavoidable whippersnapper remark when you give them a wide berth: You have left the bicycle lane. It is always easiest to congratulate everyone on their astuteness.
17 BNR PS 092 former winepress building The old communal winepress building. The span of the truss roof is rather ambitious. Rumor has that a plum line hangs from the roof ridge. The roof is redone every time it moves more than 3 feet to either side.
The geranium flagged screw press in the foreground is a hotel exhibit.
18 BNR PS 093 summer evocation You can always try to evocate some sunshine.
19 BNR PS 094 summer evocation
20 BNR PS 098 bicycle highway Bicycle highway. After half a dozen highway crossings you finally get there.
21 BNR PS 099 another allotment garden highway
22 BNR PS 110 Plantago media
Minor altar boy tangent: You are not sure if you sleep in a meadow or stand before a candlelit altar. Easy to settle that. Candles burn from top to bottom. Raceme flowering migrates from bottom to top (the thimble shape counts as a compacted raceme). - In keeping with the seasonal spirit, a prime example for a non raceme flower: the highly fractal mistletoe. No 'trunk line' whatsoever, not even a deformed one, just optimal space utilization.
23 BNR PS 111 Plantago media halfway through
24 BNR PS 112 Tilia cordata Linden tree. The heart shaped leaves are finely toothed. The bract leaf attachment conveys some limited airborne ability. (Nothing maple class. The amount of free will - to fall back on Cartesian concepts - is very small.)
25 BNR PS 113 firebug convention Pyrrhocoris apterus (firebug). Finally found the explanation for the two different markings (somebody had the better handbook). The smaller and still wingless nymphs sport the 'Arc de Triomphes'. Did half suspected something age related. My second guess was sexual dimorphism.
Linden tree environment although this is not linden leaf.
26 BNR PS 114 Rudbeckia laciniata introduced even as all New World coneflowers
27 BNR PS 115 Rudbeckia laciniata
28 BNR PS 116 gateway Some sort of subterranean gateway.
29 BNR PS 117 well balanced Please ring for the ferryman? In any case well balanced.
30 BNR PS 118 milk cans The two milk cans, hidden spool of yarn grip, are dressed up as earthenware vessels. Peek-a-boo part: the partially removed lid still shows the aluminum gullet. The large crock to the left looks genuine.
31 BNR PS 119 poppy against corn End of season. Against a field of corn.
32 BNR PS 120 Ribwort Platain
33 BNR PS 121 Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum (any number of hybrids)
34 BNR PS 122 Sophora japonica Japanese Pagoda Tree
35 BNR PS 124 public pool The slide width seems to double every decade.
36 BNR PS 125 public pool very small tower (cleverly disguised maintenance shaft entrance?)
37 BNR PS 126 public pool It is said that poplars can assimilate light from either side of their leaves and that this is the reason for their quaking. Will not contest the premises but the conclusion is not particularly cogent. Quaking does not much help if you are already sandwiched between two sun sails. Possible emendation: assimilation levels off at high exposure. Draft aided quaking would in that case enable a better plant utilization. (Just an exercise in terse courtroom style.) More traditional take: some trees are just more animate with life than others. A special cartwheeling gene makes all the difference.
38 BNR PS 127 public pool Mothballed rodeo horses (sort of).
39 BNR PS 128 public pool Menu table in match game layout (all cards upturned). First impression: Concessionary stall prices. Bulk shopping is not expected.
Particular semantic challenge: 'Land-jaeger'. Loan translation of 'gendarmes' (cop or jerky beef sausage). 'Bifi' did cut into that market [variant phonetic spelling (borderline eye dialect) of 'beefy' - Unilever tradename]. Pemmican should come reasonably close. Bifi, low fat; Landjäger, medium fat. Could have changed.
Related talk show wisdom. Not all kielbasas (generic use, anything vaguely hose shaped will do) are made out of prime meat. The whole idea of the exercise. Waste not want not. May include selected innards. For kidney pie and a leaner budget. Conan O'Brien crack: I know pet food when I see it. There is probably no way to fight received opinion. Market view: If you have to do with limited amounts of wood you go for half timbered. (The d-word was not used, not explicitly.) ...
40 BNR PS 129 public pool Combined egress and access turnpike. Just present the right kind of ticket. - The closed circuit security camera is not in the picture.
41 BNR PS 140 season's end turnpike, the older version
Why can they not use carrier pigeons for their secret messages like everyone else. Not even sure if I can find the zipper.
43 BNR PS 142 Cordulegaster boltonii
44 BNR PS 144 Ligustrum vulgare Privet berries. The shrub (its berries) are also known as 'raisins-de-chien'. Free translation: not too wholesome. The shrub is still related with the olive tree. A little genetic magic might help.
The name 'privet' could be a syncopated form of 'primus viridus'(=first green). The first part gradually related to 'primevère'. Privet could be classed as evergreen.
45 BNR PS 145 Ligustrum vulgare more of the same
46 BNR PS 150 stand of Solidago canadensis withered stand of goldenrod
