Savoy cabbage at the organic market at Wittenbergplatz. So green, so frilly, so gorgeous.
Proof that blue skies in Berlin in winter aren't a figment of my imagination.
Stolpersteine in my old neighborhood commemorating a family of Weiss's (no relation) who took their own lives and those of their children in 1943.
Oddly beautiful lanterns hanging from the trees around Winterfeldplatz.
A snapshot of a day spent wandering the East with my mom, like tourists in our own city.
A Herrnhuter Stern, traditional Christmas decoration in Germany, that someone thinks looks like a mace.
A motorcycle I wanted to pack up and take with me, thank you very much. Could it be any cuter? I think not.
More photos here.
Your photos can take me there. What camera/lens do you use??
Posted by: Dana | January 5, 2009 at 12:55 AM
A Nikon D80 with a 50 mm lens.
Posted by: Luisa | January 5, 2009 at 05:56 AM
I'm so into savoy cabbage right now - I keep making Orangette's cabbage gratin - over and over again!
Posted by: Lynne | January 5, 2009 at 06:21 AM
Interesting! We went for a walk around town Upstate on Saturday and saw a house with one of those, ahem, mace-like stars, hanging in their foyer and we both thought it was sooooo pretty! Now I know where to get one. Berlin, here I come! Danke!
Posted by: ann | January 5, 2009 at 08:33 AM
oh I am so glad to see such beautiful photos on this monday morning. thanks for sharing.
Posted by: L*Joy | January 5, 2009 at 09:08 AM
Beautiful pictures. Happy New Year, Luisa!
Posted by: Julie | January 5, 2009 at 09:54 AM
lovely lovely pics! thanks for the mini-vacation. oh, and how about that swoon-worthy cabbage?! I promise you that the cabbages in whole foods have not even been looking like distant cousins of that fine specimen.
welcome back!
Posted by: jenny | January 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Hach, you make me homesick!
Posted by: Anja | January 5, 2009 at 01:10 PM
Hi Luisa,
I really love your blog! I just found it through my friend Celeste's blog "Meals at Home." I thought I would share my little blog with you:
http://organicspark.blogspot.com
Thanks for all your generosity!
Molly
Posted by: Molly Chester | January 5, 2009 at 02:06 PM
Beautiful shots. Thanks for the mini vacation, Luisa! Happy New Year!
Posted by: Lisa (dinner party) | January 5, 2009 at 02:37 PM
the pictures are beautiful. but those stones are *so* sad: "fled into death"...
Posted by: maryn | January 5, 2009 at 04:48 PM
You're back! Happy new year and thanks for the lovely photos. :) Looking forward to (maybe?) reading about any and all culinary adventures from your trip.
Posted by: Dawn in CA | January 5, 2009 at 04:59 PM
The star is a Moravian star. We have them in the US as Christmas decorations too, but here they are typically white. The ones made in Herrnhut are made in many different colors and I think they are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
You can buy them here from a Moravian Church. www.moravian.org
Posted by: Katherine | January 5, 2009 at 08:00 PM
What a beautiful city. One day I want to travel there myself. This series of photos is a perfect amuse bouche.
Posted by: pen and paper | January 6, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Thanks for your camera info! (This is something I've been researching.) Is it the 50mm f/1.8?
Posted by: Dana | January 6, 2009 at 07:27 AM
Anja - oje, I'm sorry. Hopefully in a good way and not a sad way. :)
Maryn - yes, they're heartbreakingly sad. You see them everywhere in Berlin now. I couldn't stop photographing them.
Dana - it is!
Posted by: Luisa | January 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM
I love berlin and I have only been there in the winter:) Thanks for the post:)
Posted by: Ulla | January 6, 2009 at 03:10 PM
Beautiful photos-- and it sounds like you had a wonderful time! But aren't those brass "stones" in front of the houses memorials to people taken to concentration/extermination camps during World War II?
Posted by: Dena | January 9, 2009 at 03:29 PM
Dena - Yes, they are memorials to Berlin Jews who died during the Holocaust. This particular family was forced into suicide in 1943, two years before the end of the war.
Posted by: Luisa | January 9, 2009 at 06:29 PM