288 posts categorized "Moments & Days"
Scenes from a Saturday (Antipodes & Bite Club)
A stack of The Gentlewoman, a string of perfect flat whites, kind patient waitstaff ready to dispense fluffys, a view of a stunning church: Antipodes remains a gem for coffee lovers on a lazy Saturday. Finally, finally, Bite Club! Singleton......
Places of Remembrance
But no summer walk is innocent of history. In summer as in winter this sign consumes me. In translation: "Jews are not permitted to leave their flats after 8pm (9pm in the summer)." It's one in the public art series......
Of a summer's evening
Walking home, walking out. The long summer dusk gives the roses a special glow, while leaching color from the yellow hollyhocks....
Easter snaps
This Easter, happily, we were tourists in Berlin. Dinners at Aroma, Meierei, and Lentz, lunches were long picnics on the lawn. The peacocks sport full plumage on Peacock Island. The sand dunes in Grunewald rang with the sounds of a......
Five more scoops of ice cream
Thoughts do become things. One day my daughter was drawing ice cream cones, and there was nothing for it but to light out to Ludwigkirchplatz: a scoop of chocolate for her, a scoop of chestnut for myself. Two Junes ago......
No spring without an exaltation of blossoms
At a flower shop along Belziger Straße | On the window sill at Lina Rothenberger | At home | At the witch's playground...
Sempiternal though sodden
Three moments between things to honor this midwinter spring....