Archive for July, 2008
Christmas in July
Saturday, July 26th, 2008A porch full of Christmas!
Friday I was greeted by the UPS man with boxes upon boxes of the new Christmas items I had designed. They filled the front porch. I had my weekend’s worth of work. All 15 boxes needed to be unpacked and inventoried.
Unpacking and sorting snow flakes
With over 5000 items, I am pleased […]
Berlin or Bust
Thursday, July 24th, 2008The final destination of our travels: Berlin. I had heard so many things about this city. Would it be a playground for Sally Bowles (of Cabaret fame) with her black page boy coif singing torch songs? Or a grey, dreary post-Soviet city of tower blocks? Or teeming with skinny tattooed punks in slim stovepipe leather […]
Posted in travel | No Comments »>Why not Weimar?
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008What is this place Weimar? I had heard the name many times over the years. It was almost always in the context of the Weimar Republic. But just what was that? The more I read and the more I researched, amazingly the more I discovered. Funny how that works!
Weimar revealed itself in layers: layers of learning, […]
Phoenix, Germany
Monday, July 7th, 2008We waved good-bye to Prague and said Guten Tag to Dresden. Two hours and a language separate these cities.
The Dresden Block House in bloom. A block house housed the munitions to protect the city.
The old united with the new, our hotel on the Elbe.
Dresden and Meissen (a city just a few miles away) have for […]