 Beilstein
The stratified overview: from top to bottom: Hohenbeilstein (the castle), the Schloss (the civilian alter ego of a castle), the township.
|  Beilstein
This lord of the castle could not make up his mind if he wanted to stay in his dacha on top of the hill or move downtown so he settled for halfway. The elevated walkway did see better days.
|  Beilstein, Schloss
I would call it a turret oriel. The main roof harbors two rows of dormer windows. A regular drainage gutter supplements the dragon spigot. The upper window ledges spiked with standard anti-roosting quills.
|  Beilstein
stuck in a rut
|  Hohenbeilstein
the body double of the tin can man
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 Hohenbeilstein, Ruta graveolens
Common rue (eponymous family). My pick from the small herb garden of the castle. A traditional plant to spice up wine. (And some wines need more spicing up than others?). No longer a favorite. Trivial pursuit: Like parsley a mild abortifacient. By what I gather, you would have other problems if you had consumed the quantities of rue spiced wine required to make it effective. Say like finding your way out of zoo specializing in pink elephants.
|  Hohenbeilstein
Wunnenstein and Forstberg
|  Hohenbeilstein
Admission to the castle is free if you dress up as falcon. Drawback, you will have to do some stunt flying at appointed hours to earn you keep. - No real justification for the barren locust branch: I could not even come up with a vulture.
|  Hohenbeilstein
This tower was supposed to be the safe zone - after you made it up the rickety walkway.
|  Hohenbeilstein
Puzzle by the way. Are the tiles locked correctly. The visible gap could by capillary action related. Kōan of the day, when is empty space superior to a close fit.
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 Hohenbeilstein
The walkway to the Schloss. (Closed off to the public.) Looks certainly somewhat precarious. Conundrum, the parapet offers protection only in one direction. No problem as long as the enemy plays fair. The halfway turret straddles an arched passage. Just enough clearance for a rack wagon rigged with a grape vat. - The black tubing looks like trickle irrigation.
|  Hohenbeilstein
Either a bracket for a giant flagpole or something more bathroom related.
|  Hohenbeilstein
case closed (upward view on the keep) - obliquely, nobody will ask for cantilevered air-conditioning units
|  Hohenbeilstein, Echium vulgare
next to the curtain wall: Viper's Bugloss. Protruding anthers.
|  Beilstein
city hall, draped in publicity (you should have seen the sash of the mayor).
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 Beilstein
City Hall, the spam free version.
No objection against fly-screens. But why market them as a brand new contraption. Staple in any builder supply market (HomeDepot plus car battery aisle) and that since decades. Once you have nylon stockings. Wire mesh versions before that. Most 19th miners did wear fencing masks (Davy's lamp reference). Fire damp filled galleries and the constant threat of oversized fireflies, something like that. Less picturesque sum up, multifarious uses. Main obstacle, fly screens will not combine readily with hand operated casement shutters (if flies cannot get it, hands cannot get out.) Possible solution, sliding fly screens. That rhymes with custom tailored frame making and decent profit margins, which again explains the stall and the name branding. - Incidentally: no mesh is fine enough to keep out vinegar flies and spiders.
|  Beilstein
The world will not grind to a halt for lack of catering. - Mini amusement park in front of the old press house. (The wall filling has been replaced by anti-pigeon netting.)
|  Beilstein
Nipplewort [Lapsana communis] against a semi-professional external cable distributor. (I remember an overcast sky and some intermittent showers. The flowers are still open.)
|  Beilstein
The road maintenance department employs specially trained magicians to cut up these surplus traffic signs. Whatever it takes to forestall a black market in ping pong tables.
|  Beilstein, Viburnum opulus
The corymb inflorescence of a Guelder Rose. (Whatever it takes to emulate a well balanced umbel. The envelope is given, the rest is negotiable.) The halo effect, the outer ring of sterile 'ray' florets, could be enhanced by light pulses. If Cesar's Palace gets away with it.
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 Beilstein
waiting for the discarded furniture hearse
|  Beilstein
They do not make hinges like that any more. Custom tailored for curved barn doors. Should be tannin drenched oak.
|  Beilstein Jettenbach
On the way to the cattle market. The Sunday doublet looks rather tight (which could explain the mien). - Roof ornament of the renovated mini press house cum fire engine hanger.
|  Beilstein Jettenbach
This decommissioned transformer station could harbor a grandfather clock. Better classify it as a primary target. - Beilstein was at the receiving end of the wrath of the Allied Air Force on the 16th of April 1945. The last days of unlimited mayhem. (If a Spielberg can get away with highly implausible scripts of WWII air and submarine warfare. One earmarked transformer station should equal one bull's eyed Ferris Wheel.)
|  Beilstein Jettenbach
A 19th century house which survived the ordeal (my guess is based on window size). Will plead guilty to some artistic padding. The outlying hamlet of Jettenbach, population 100 plus, was probably spared. - The lower range of roof tiles has been recently renewed. The parsimonious thatcher will take incremental sluicing into account.
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