The Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge offers us every weekend a word, we can use in Poems, Pictures, every interpretation is welcome.
The word for this weekend is „Bulbous“ – a word, I have never heard as I am no native English speaker. So I had to check the meaning of bulbous first. This is what they say:
bulbous
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Something that is bulbous is round and fat in a rather ugly way.
…his bulbous purple nose.
Synonyms: bulging, rounded, swelling, swollen
So, not a really nice word at first glance. Nevertheless, I will try to find a picture for this word.
And I found a very old slide, taken in 1980 with my Canon AE-1 and a 50 mm FD lens. And also added a very poor Extender which gives me a 100 mm lens.
Since I was a kid, planes and helicopters are a fascinating subject to me. Unfortunately, we do not have an airport nearby, but a small civil airfield (By the way: The highest-altitude aerodrome in Baden-Württemberg and the second highest in Germany). And so I often took my bicycle, climbed up the hills from 730 m ASL to 891 m ASL to see what else is happening there.
And there they were: Two Bell 47 helicopters with their characteristic bulbous canopy made of plexiglass, which provides 180-degree visibility for the pilot and passengers. Designed by Arthur M. Young and certified in 1946, it was the first helicopter to be certified for civilian use.
