Growing Collection Of uair01's Fortean Holiday Pics

[uair01]

Just a few holiday pictures that I found remarkable enough to post here ...

In the palace gardens in Schwerin someone had grafted two old beech trees together, so it looked like they were holding hands:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/connected_trees.jpg

Anyway, they were extremely antropomorphic trees, one looking like a female giant:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/tree_body.jpg

The church bells from Lübeck cathedral still lie - half molten - like they fell during the allied bombardment:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/moltenbells01.jpg

This sign shows that it takes 40.000 km to het to "HERE" (modern art):

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/here40000.jpg

How the devil helped the citizens of Lübeck to build their church, and how he was thanked by having a wine-house built, so he could collect some souls:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/devilstone01.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/devilstone02.jpg

The "gelatin bear" oracle. Pick 5 gelatin bear sweets from the stachel at random, and then use their colors to predict your future. This was not a really serious book, but it was quite thick and had a very "I Ching" look and feel. - "The divine light shines through the spirit of gelatin."

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/gummibar01.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/gummibar02.jpg

 

[uair01]

A few more holiday oddities. Hope to amuse you a bit - and maybe you can clarify some of my questions.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/church-stcatches.jpg

Saw these scratch marks on the Freiburg cathedral (.de). I think they were discussed on this forum before? I remember the hypothesis of “sharpening knifes” and “using holy stone to make medicine”. Anyone remember the discussion?

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/moresnet_maria01.jpg

In the Maria chapel in Moresnet (.be) I read all the thanksgivings for answered prayers. Most were from the 1900 - 1920. I searched and found just a few modern ones. I wonder - do people pray less or are less prayers answered? It might also be that less people pray to Maria nowadays (I’m an active Catholic, but in our church Maria is mentioned no more than in any protestant church, but we have a Maria-chapel and a lot of people pray there in private …).

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/moresnet_maria02_tree.jpg

The miraculous Maria statue was originally housed inside an old oak tree. Am I wrong to assume an interesting mix of pagan and Catholic traditions here?

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/respect_sign.jpg

I very much liked this sign. They should put up more of them, they would fit anywhere don’t you think?

 

[uair01]

We were in Maastricht yesterday and saw this:

A spooky collection of spontaneous / natural cat mummies (NOT egyptian cat mummies ... those are boring). I wonder where the Natural History museum got these from:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/catmummy01.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/catmummy02.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/catmummy03.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/catmummy04.jpg

A young cat - careless taxidermy (?) has turned this one into an unrecognizable cryptozoological monster! I could only recognize it because of the label. Poor little thing:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/youngcat.jpg

Rat king:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/ratking.jpg

Sorry for the bad picture quality - taking pictures through glass is tough for my cheap camera.

Anarchistic disgusting micro artwork:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/pooflag.jpg

I wonder what this is - it's already a microscopic balcony, so why put a huge stone on it? And it's not even a beautiful stone:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/balconystone.jpg

 

[rynner2]

I wonder what this is - it's already a microscopic balcony, so why put a huge stone on it? And it's not even a beautiful stone:
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e182/uair01/balconystone.jpg

Might be a lump of chewed up polystyrene packing.

(Maybe the dog had a go at it while they were setting up their new computer..?)

 

[Richard_Cheese]

That does look like a huge piece of polystyrene.
I have seen pieces that large (and larger) used to make floating boat docks on the river near my old home.

 

[triplesod]

Sorry. I don't have time to go through these properly but, you were in Mecklanberg, yes?

Anywhere Neustadt, Glewe?