254 posts categorized "Moments & Days"
Spring swept me away
Spring swept me away. What has Berlin been but a succession of blossoms and bright light filtered through new leaves?...
The moon last night
Did you see the moon last night? Vast, almost orange. We walked for hours, mostly along the canal. This season! This spring like a holiday in the midst of my own life....
Berlin flora #3 (spring fever edition)
This ravishing still life (oh, Berlin!) glimpsed in a kindergarten window on Alexandrinenstraße....
Clouds of pink
Begin at the corner of Schwedter Straße and Kopenhagener Straße and head north, following the staircases as you cross beneath bridges in pursuit of these clouds of pink blossoms. They're at their grandest north of Bornholmer Straße. This moment is......
A little euphoria, a jolt of sun
Birdsong and trains were always my Berlin soundtrack, and I hear them both as I write, my cheeks still flushed by the day's sun. Central heating is being installed in our building, so our landlords have moved us to a......
Sunlight splashes across the table and I leap
Don't the quail eggs lend the arrangement a note of gravitas?...
Grunewald, Mitte, Schöneberg, Prenzlauer Berg, Tiergarten
— Fallow days....
