Prater Garten
Last year’s lackluster summer weather kept me away from the Prater, Berlin’s oldest Biergarten tucked off the busy Kastanienallee. This summer I seem to be making up for lost time, having frequented it three times now, first with Ashley, Andreas, and Hazel and most recently with…
June 25, 2010
Revisiting.
City nature.
Hufeland Straße & the Volkspark Friedrichshain I have four visitors right now—the only guests I’ve had in two years—and it is so fun to see the city through their eyes. Showing them what I have found and the places I like is changing the way…
Simson Schwalbe in the Snow
Kollwitzstraße Berlin, Germany A walk on Saturday revealed: A man sprinkling the three inches of ice in front of his shop with TABLE SALT. Big sigh. I had no idea that the misinformation went so deep. It makes me feel like I need to make…
Overgrown
I don’t make a practice of taking photos in graveyards, but today the light was beautiful and the place intriguing. The graveyard is close to my apartment, between two loud and busy streets, but it is so huge and so overgrown that it feels completely…
Walking
Winskietz, Bötzowviertel and Volkspark Friedrichshain.
Flower Shop
Today I was on my way to do a dumb errand and walked by our neighborhood flower shop. There is no way to ever resist this place, so I bought one of those little dusty pink plants that everyone has outside at this time of…
Dusk
Just a quiet walk at the end of the day today. Explored the never-ending Hof of a semi-renovated factory that kept giving up little moments like the ones above. Berlin is settling into fall mode; everywhere we went this evening were the rich smells of…
This Direction
An early evening walk to an unexplored corner of the neighborhood.
