It’s this time of the year again. Last Saturday, we had a pumpkin party. It was my first pumpkin party on German soil, and it was a blast. Tina and Beth made last-minute pumpkin pie (delicious), pumpkin soup (amazing/spicy) and pumpkin pizza (fabulous) and everyone brought a pumpkin and knives. After we were done carving the pumpkins, Beth roasted the pumpkin seeds and we had those, too. I feel like I haven’t used the word pumpkin quite enough yet. Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin. It’s a miracle that we didn’t all turn into pumpkins, I guess. Anyway, we had a great time, and the same goes for our friends who were there. I have a feeling that this is going to become a regular thing…
Everyone is quietly working on their pumpkins on our front porch.
Corinna and Beth work on their pumpkins.
The delicious pumpkin pie - courtesy of Beth and Tina - sits on the kitchen table and waits to be cut.
Everyone is warming up at the kitchen table after carving pumpkins in the freezing cold on the front porch.
The result of the evening's work: Eight beautifully carved Jack O'Lanterns glow in the dark in our front yard.
October 25, 2011
We just went on a walk in the woods behind our house to pick some mushrooms. We didn’t find a whole lot (just enough for scrambled eggs with mushrooms), but the light out there was amazing. Here are a few shots:
October 16, 2011
Here are a few shots from a train ride home to Abensberg earlier today:
October 15, 2011
Last Wednesday I went to see Christoph Chevallier at his work place. Christoph is my brother Basti’s former college room mate who went on to become an arborist. When these guys cut down a tree, they don’t just take out the chainsaw and saw it off. They strap on their harnesses, climb up into the tree and start taking it down branch by branch. It was cool to watch it, and I also got a shot out of it that I like.
Arborist Christoph Chevallier, of Freising, Germany, climbs on a maple tree to prepare it for felling at a construction site in Pasing by Munich, Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
October 15, 2011