Buoying to find myself existing in the world, after a stretch where my little project of recording moments seemed so interior and evanescent, where my posts, again, fell away. Thank you to Melanie and Krista for kind words.
Days remain devoted to summer's long adieu. I couldn't resist the market yesterday afternoon. It was full of a dozen still lifes (sunflowers, pears, squash) and a dozen tableaux, of which this exchange between vegetable seller and elderly woman was my favorite.
Everyone is so happy in the sunshine. When I spot Berlin gratifying an idea about the city it makes me smile.
And below, can you see those buds just at the cusp? It's self-indulgent, maybe, but I decided I couldn't leave the city until the chorus of blooms had begun.
God but doesn't it feel like spring? After a month of stodge I find myself eating radishes like candies.
Anyone looking to twin contemplative activity with random beauty could do worse than spend twenty minutes plucking red currants off their spindly stems.
At this time of year, there is no better place to enjoy autumn's elegaic atmosphere than the Grunewald. Around the lake, people appear newly bulky in their winter coats, while dogs frolic wildly along the water in packs of five. After a turn around the lake, you're hungry, and there's the somewhat grand, somewhat kitschy Forsthaus Paulsborn just waiting for you with its array of cakes and fall specials.
As you walk back to the bus stop, a few leaves falls from an oak.
After a lazy morning, breakfasting on plum cake and mint tea, reading the Green, Blue and Indigo chapters of Color, walk down Stargarder Straße along Dunckerstraße to in't Veld and order a little dish of chocolate ginger ice cream, then nip at it while reading the SZ. After an hour, go to Goldhahn und Sampson to look at everything very carefully; be briefly tempted by a Gary Rhodes cookbook. Consider the luxury Malabar peppercorns but put off purchase for another day. Decide to have an early dinner at Sasaya. Head over to the piano salon and be bowled over Amit Friedmann's first concert.
