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Brew with a view

@brew-with-view.bsky.social

Silver cyclist 🚴‍♀️
#WeekSforSilver #AlphabetChallenge
...and just realised, could have posted for last week's #WeekRforRoads 🤷‍♀️

May 8, 2025 at 5:47 AM

Iris

@iriszz11.bsky.social

Somewhere in Canada
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #roadtrip #eastcoastkin #Photographersunited

May 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM

fedecks

@fedecks.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRforRoads

kind of you to ask

i took this picture in a friend's office just before you asked about gold and i was annoyed that i didn't take a picture of the gold album that is also hanging around. but now
:-)

a silver record by annenmaykantereit "schlagschatten" for 200000 sold albums

May 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM

Brew with a view

@brew-with-view.bsky.social

👏👏👏
...and the perfect segway from last week's #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads

May 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM

Tony Williams

@teedub55.bsky.social

#WeekRforRoads

May 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Romek66

@romek66.bsky.social

On the way to Cottonwood Narrows.
Cottonwood Canyon Road.
Grand Staircase-Escalante. Utah

#hiking #Utah #StunDay #WeekRforRoads

May 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM

Nixbora 🔰

@nixbora.bsky.social

One last entry for the passing week of the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads #Nikon #Mallard #EastCoastKin

May 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM

emmabeastie3-m.bsky.social

@emmabeastie3-m.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRoads #Blackandwhite #Industrial #Road #Minimal #Portland #Stark #MinimalUrban #BlackAndWhiteUrban
#Bridge #Urbanphotography

May 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM

Goodport (GP)

@goodport.bsky.social

The road to my ‘other neighborhood’.
#WeekRforRoads #AlphabetChallenge #Sailing

A road leading downhill to a sailboat marina. Green grassy hillside on the left, clubhouse on the right, boats, lake and mountains in the background.

May 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM

Creative Crone 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇮🇨 she/her

@neverreverend.bsky.social

The Road Through the Porte de France into Turckheim
One of the treasured historical Alsatian towns that survived WWII untouched. A walk through town means walking on cobblestones. Neither high heels nor bare feet like those roads
#AlphabetChallenge #Travel #WeekRForRoads #EastCoastKin

On your screen, a sun-lit mediaeval village is visible through the shadowed arches of a portal. The houses in town are pastel coloured and half timbered.
Like the rest of Alfa, it has a colourful history, being passed back-and-forth between Germany and France. In fact, an educated ear (& the ability to decipher rare languages) will be able to identify the Alsatian language as primarily mediaeval German.

Turckheim became a free imperial city in 1312, and in 1315, the construction of the still extant ramparts was begun. From 1354 to 1679, Turckheim was part a league of ten free imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire. After the Peace of Westphalia (1648), Turckheim and the other Alsatian towns refused to swear allegiance to the French king.

During the Franco-Dutch War, the village of Turckheim was taken by French armies, which subsequently defeated armies of Austria and Brandenburg in what became known as the Battle of Turckheim (1675). In 1678, with the signing of the Treaties of Nijmegen, the French king assumed control over Turckheim.
In 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the town, with the rest of the Alsace, became part of the German Empire.
In 1918, it reverted to France.
Turckheim is one of only a few remaining towns in France with a municipal night watchman, who makes the rounds at 10 p.m. between 1 May and 31 October and on the three Saturdays preceding Christmas. Maintained for tourist reasons, the position commemorates the 13th-century night watchman who prevented a fire.

On a personal note, my youngest daughter chose this town as the location for her wedding reception, after having moved to France nine years earlier. She fell in love with the country first, and eventually met the man she would marry. The night watchman accompanied us through the town and shared its history with us.
I shall add a picture of the night watchman with my daughter in the comment section. The contrast between them is highly amusing.

May 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM

Michelle

@trailtotoday.bsky.social

Stunning cars and foliage. Enjoy your night!
#Stunday #EastCoastKin
#WeekRforRoads #AlphabetChallenge #Contrast #SensoryArt #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

Taken from a car looking at a curve in the road that goes between mountains that are covered in beautiful fall foliage, so reds, oranges, yellows and greens.

May 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM

Michelle

@trailtotoday.bsky.social

Hard to pass a car on some roads in Ireland
#Stunday #EastCoastKin
#WeekRforRoads #AlphabetChallenge #Contrast #SensoryArt #Photography

Pic taken from the car on a road that only fits one car, heading toward green mountains.

My son sleeping in the back seat of the car

May 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM

Michelle

@trailtotoday.bsky.social

We saw NASCAR’s King, Richard Petty race.
I am stunned it was 33 years ago! 🙂
#Stunday #EastCoastKin
#WeekRforRoads #AlphabetChallenge #Contrast #SensoryArt #Photography

Pic is of an old photo album page that has 3 things on it: a pic looking at the Pocono PA racetrack, the ticket to get in and a dollar bill signed by someone but I do not remember, I think we met former race car driver and broadcaster "Gentleman Ned Jarrett" but I'm not sure.

May 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM

Anne Horgan

@kerryanne123.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRoads
Sunny street in Kavala
#Travel 📸 #Greece

Colourful houses projecting over a sunny street with cars parked on the right hand side.

May 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM

emmabeastie3-m.bsky.social

@emmabeastie3-m.bsky.social

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRoads #Blackandwhite #Industrial #Road #Minimal #PalmSprings #Stark #MinimalUrban #BlackAndWhiteUrban #PhonePhotography
I wish I have been able to save more of my Palm Springs photos given the amazing light there. I hated the heat, but I loved that light.

May 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM

peacedove.bsky.social

@peacedove.bsky.social

Took this yesterday #WeekRforRoads on my way home from the May Day #Festival at the school where I worked for many years.💗 Each class 1 through 7 dances, then the little ones scatter petals for class 8. All the children in these snaps are grown now, in or headed to college. Beautiful celebration!