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Today I offer another set of photos in my ongoing homage to Imogen Cunningham. I’m definitely pursing the leaf, light and shadow theme in a slightly different direction from Cunningham’s work, but it’s fun seeing what I notice as inspiration … Continue reading
I’ve prepared a short German vocabulary list to help with today’s post:
One of the oldest surviving pieces of film shot in Tübingen is of some circus elephants walking in the Neckar River in the early 1900s. You can see a piece of that film by clicking here; the elephants arrive at … Continue reading
I’ve talked before here on the blog about my struggles learning German, since that’s the language I’m trying to master at the moment.
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In German, all nouns have a grammatical gender and there’s no predicting which gender a noun will be: der Tisch, “the table” is masculine, die Tür, “the door” is feminine, das Auge, “the eye” is neuter. It’s a matter of … Continue reading
5 years ago today Chris and I arrived in New Jersey. Now, given the fact that I’m from New Jersey, that may seem like much of a fact worth mentioning.
The alcoholic drink of choice in Germany is beer. That probably comes as no surprise, since even in North America people are familiar with the idea of German Oktoberfest, a festival centered around drinking copious quantities of beer. So I … Continue reading
So here in Germany they have a bit of coffee-house culture. There are many places here in Tübingen alone where you can go and have a Milchkaffee, the standard coffee drink in Germany. A Milchkaffee is made from drip coffee … Continue reading
So there’s a soda here in Germany that’s a mix of cola and orange soda, which was first brought to market under the brand-name Spezi. Since then,
So that Mineralwasser I talked about yesterday turns out to be an important “mixer” in all kinds of drinks here.