greener each day

the trees are getting greener by the minute, it seems. it's been coldish for some days now but maybe that's just as well since i'm back at work and my desk is so full with rush jobs it's not true. still in a good mood, feeling inspired by those last few days of sunshine and good times with family and friends.

i may take my work to a café for a couple of hours this afternoon - it's saturday, after all, and the buzz at my favourite coffee place usually triggers some good ideas.

just listened to this little concert from blogothèque and thought you might enjoy it, too: final fantasy - concert à emporter. 

happy days

i had my sister and her family here for a few days. the weather was gorgeous, we went to the zoo, took the ferry across wannsee, had a picnic in the old orchard in kladow and met friends for a barbecue. what a great time we had!

here are a few things i particularly liked: the tiling and a stained glass window in the lions' house at the tierpark and the old red chairs on the ferry to kladow. and - the sun shining - i couldn't resist doing a lee friedlander (i wish...). never mind the toes.

happy easter

the sun's shining, people are walking past my window in t-shirts and sunglasses. another couple of days before i have to return to work. will so make the most of it.

yesterday

hello again. yesterday started off really quiet, with breakfast and some reading and my beloved scrap book that i got in december. it has 365 empty pages to fill, each one numbered, with no additional dates or text. what a great idea to keep it that simple. i tend to put in newspaper or magazine cut-outs, tickets etc., jot down notes or ideas. it's already bulging and it's only april... oh, i got it from magazine shop do you read me?! in berlin mitte, specialising in glossy magazines.

my reading at the moment is german writer christa wolf's 'ein tag im jahr' (a day in the year) for which she has chronicled her 27th september from 1960 up to 2000. i like the fact how much history is reflected in the everyday. also been flicking through a biography of gisèle freund by bettina de cosnac. 

at lunchtime i joined a friend to help her spring-clean her kitchen. and we meant business, emptying all cabinets and drawers, cleaning everything inside out, even behind the fridge and oven. ouch, i'm still aching. today, we're going to paint and put up the new wallpaper. easter sunday is going to be very calm and relaxing though (that's the idea at least)!

  

more photorealism

some more inspiration from the guggenheim show. enjoy!

monday

went to see the current show at deutsche guggenheim, "picturing america - photorealism in the 1970s". great show! here are some impressions.

home

have wanted to play around with that old camera for quite a while. i rather like the grainyness of the film.