As we walked over the frozen lake, our steps making a special sound that prompted my friend to share with a smile: “This is the sound of my childhood.” And snow does have different sounds as you walk upon it. In the three days I was in Bad Saarow-Pieskow I could tell the difference. In […]
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In Painful Winter Cold, Remembering Summer in Photos
Here in Berlin, day-time temperatures are around -10°C, and it is, of course, going to get colder and more snow is on the way, though the past few days have featured cloudless, crisp blue skies. So I thought I’d do a photo memory of summer in Germany, mostly Berlin…but throughout the region as well. I […]
Germany: Night On The Lake
There’s only a few hours at most of dark night here in summer. The kind of night where the sky is nearly black or so deep a blue you can’t see the trees in silhouette. Yet here, around the twenty-third hour, eleven p.m. the sky finally becomes that color. Until then, it’s twilight, first a […]
Mounted Shooting: Bad Fall, Good Memories
Who thought shooting targets from horseback was fun? Well, they were right. In a manner of speaking. A friend, a horse lover and keeper had requested the pleasure of my company for a ride. It was weekly arrangement, though sometimes we rode together more often. She had three horses and her husband didn’t ride. She […]
Losing the way but finding new friends: Finland
Sometimes I joke about it, or I get teased a little about my propensity for taking the wrong direction but I think it’s an intentional misdirection I choose to commit myself to instead of a general ineptitude regarding maps. “Getting lost” or taking the wrong direction might be a source of irritation or embarrassment for […]
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