Photos: Summer At Scharmützelsee, Germany

All photos made by me at Bad-Saarow-Pieskow and other villages around Scharmützelsee, Germany. Houses and Mansions The Lake & Nature And the series of photo based on one view is below.  I used in the book trailer for “Silence Is Multi-colored In My World,” my tenth book release. I know some do it anyway, but […]

Photos:Volkspark Friedrichshain-Berlin: A Summer Evening

It was special, better, more difficult and more exhilarating to practice QiGong in the air open, under the sky, with voices all around, insects making their curious dances in the air. We met at Volkspark in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, at the Platz der Vereinten Nationen. Afterwards, we lay in the grass, talking and […]

Through the Countryside & Around the Lake “With” Robert Burns

Scharmützelsee. If you’ve read or viewed this blog for a while or just a short time, you’ll probably know its my regular haunt, my beloved location and a relaxing place of fascination for me. It’s a moderately sized lake in Land Brandenburg about an hour from Berlin and usually I make a lot of photos […]

Photos from Berlin & Scenes from “The Agony of Joy”

Winner of the 2013 Global Ebook Award for Best LGBT Novel. Background about the novel: The partially finished manuscript of “The Agony of Joy” had been “on pause” on my computer, in a folder within a folder. I do that occasionally when I have a story or idea I’m still meditating on, yet don’t want […]

Back At Scharmützelsee: Germany (Photos)

As much as I love Scharmützelsee, the lake I’ve written about numerous times here (for example, Night On the Lake), I was somewhat ambivalent about going this trip. Only a relatively short ride: by bus, then S-bahn (local) train, a change to an inter-regional train and then to yet another bus…well, it’s a relatively short […]