Final thoughts #2

5. And it is a city of texture.
* The wonderful pottery spheres created by a local artist are meant to have candles in them.
* The gorgeous inlaid wardrobe is centuries old.
* The figure on the door is from an old building, juxtaposed against other older pieces, and put in the entrance hall to a church.
* The charming kissing couple is in St Peter's, and was, for me at least, a welcome change from the heavily religious figures elsewhere.
* Most of the roofs are covered with tiles, of many different patterns.
* Some older ceilings have thick timber beams.
* Every now and again a shop will have a metal sign in front, like this Jonah and the very odd-looking whale, above a pub called, appropriately, Zum Walfisch, The Whale
* The thick wooden door with the wonderful fixtures is in an old church, and has been there for centuries. * The horizontal figure is the guardian of the portal in St. Jacob's, the Scottish church.
* The patterned stone floor is in a church. (There are lots of churches in Regensburg.)
* The hanging gable sort of room is on a building that has otherwise been modernized.
* We were walking down a street one evening and I noticed this wonderful shutter-holder, a helmeted head.
* There is a pipe organ in every church we visited, and I took pictures of several. This was one of the most elaborate.
* When the wall was was redone for this cafe, they left the stones of an original arch still visible.
* Same with the entrance to yet another church--they left part of the original arch visible so that modern visitors could see it.

And finally, the temporary textures against the ancient: the transient buildings of the Dult, with the ancient cathedral in the background.