Back in Berlin!

Today at 4.30 am in the morning I arrived at Berlin with the night train from my one week holiday in Lithuania, Litvia and Estonia.
It was an inspiring journey into three countries which once belonged to the Soviet Republic. They became independent in the late 80ies of the 20th century. Each of the countries is [...]

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Lovely Lavender

Usually, when I hear the word “lavender” I think of

lovely soaps
the south of France
summer
the french saying  “joie de vivre” (the Joy of Living)
or the Latin “ars vivendi” (the art of Living).

I would not think of the neighborhood I live in, which is rather poor, with people queuing up in front of the local shop in [...]

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An Old Church, a Fountain and a Busy City

Have you ever heard of Berlin, Alexanderplatz?  It is a large public square and transport hub in the Mitte (city centre) district of Berlin. Lots of people are crossing it, heading to the big malls, changing from one kind of public transport to the other one, in the morning off to work, in the afternoon [...]

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Morning has Broken

“Morning has broken” is one of the most played songs of Cat Stevens here in Germany (I still prefer to think of him as “Cat Stevens” and not as “Yussuf Islam”, but I digress). The video you can watch here and listen to doesn’t cover the song in full length, but [...]

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A Photo from a Friend

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Purple, originally uploaded by Karey46.
I have known Karey46, a nice lady from Michigan, for more than one year now. Every Sunday at a certain time we have a one hour chat, presenting our photos and exchanging our experiences concerning photo-processing, talking about every day life, and – of course! – the weather.
We have met each [...]

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Horse in Motion

That sketch was done very quickly. I just wanted to catch the movement of the horse, and I know there are some mistakes regarding the proportions.
I put the photo on flickr first and told a good friend of mine about it. He had given me some drawing and painting lessons, and I wanted to know [...]

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June – the Month of Roses

I like the month of June. In the beginning of June, you can see the first rosebuds, and now, in the middle of June, roses are everywhere. The photo above was taken at the next post office, a modern building with some flower beds in front of it. At the moment yellow roses are in [...]

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Up in the Sky

When the weather is fine, you can see this balloon hovering over Berlin. It is fastened to the earth, so it cannot fly away. The name written on it – “Die Welt” stands for the sponsor, the newspaper “Die Welt”.
If you want to look down on the city of Berlin, you can enter the balloon [...]

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Three things I Learned while Writing my First Squidoo Lense

What is Squidoo?
“Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create “lenses” online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest–and snap it all into focus.”
This description I found on a squidoo lense. Squidoo [...]

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Alive again – The American Bison

They once lived in hundreds of thousands of herds in the Great Plains. The Indians hunted them and used every bit of them – from their hides to their horns.
During the 19th century those enormous herds were reduced to only a few hundred animals. They were shot down and left to rot. In the end [...]

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