Random photos from home, a new project, Tierpark, Tempelhofer Feld
In the process of reorganising this website, I can see the value of trying to limit the number of posts. The weather has been exceptionally bad till now – snow, sleet, wind, and worst of all, ice, so I have allowed myself to snuggle up at home most of the time. Although I am told I have bones like a thirty-year-old, I still do not want to risk a fall and a fracture. Gabi Fastner, whom I have recommended many times, and will do it again since she has been a life-saver on several occasions this past decade, has been coming to the rescue once again with her twice-daily exercise videos on youtube, as has Rewe with their Lieferservice which works really well.
I have started a new project which involves taking two photos each week of my views, looking east and looking west. I saw that challenge in a photo magazine and hope I will remember to keep it up. Unfortunately, I did not start right at the beginning of the year when everything was converd in a thick layer of snow. This almost makes me wish for another snowfall before the end of winter.
Just like during lock-down, time has flown by, but I am now looking forward to this evening’s Artistravel course on fine-art photography, to tomorrow’s (forecast) sunny weather and visiting an exhibition about to end (Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg), to Saturday’s guided tour of the “Himalaya” area of Tierpark and subsequent Ultraschall concert at Radialsystem, and finally, a birdwatching tour of Tempelhofer Feld with NABU’s legendary Derk Ehlert (finally got a photo of one of the Anita-Berber-Park owls thought not a particularly good one) followed by a visit to Spore Iniative with good friend Agata on Sunday.
And thus, finally, in its third week, the new year is slowly getting back to normal. I have to admit that I think the downtime has done me a lot of good.
Concerning the guided tour of “Himalaya” on 17 January, I was surprised to find so many paths still covered in ice and dangerously slippery. I know that in Berlin, they cannot agree on who is responsible for the pavements so nobody does anything, but in Tierpark, where they even have a lot of extra time these days because of the many outdoor enclosures that do not need cleaning (most notably ALL the outdoor bird enclosures since the birds are still being kept indoors), you would think they could find the time to make ALL the paths walkable. Extremely poor service, not least to those who pay for the entrance as well as for a guided tour.
