Roaming in Southern Germany

[Mira]

As you, my friends, might have noticed, I’m in Germany for my brother’s funeral and for family togetherness.
These flowers from it were in my room for a couple of nights. Headaches ensued. Then these beautiful culprits moved to the entrance hall. I bet you can smell them...



Instead of an ordinary cemetery the burial of the urn is in a nature cemetery in a wonderful area that will allow a place under a chosen tree, where the internment will happen with professionals.

This is on our way choosing the tree. We chose a birch in a little clearing in a ring of chestnut trees.





Here are a couple of shots from the little town near the French border from where we drove up to the nature cemetery



On this one check the roof on the right



As you can tell it rained all day, which was not inappropriate for our sad task of choosing a grave site.
On the way home I spotted what might be the lair of Nosferatu.

[GentryDixon]

1. I'm sorry for the loss of your brother, Mira.💔

Your photos are lovely. 💜

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. These are such beautiful photos, my dear Mira.........

I love them all! The flowers were wonderful, and I'm sorry they gave you a headache.....

Solar panels! Very smart.

And I love the idea of a nature cemetery.

Wishing you comfort and love during this time of extraordinary grief.

[Mira]

3. I thank you, I thank you all.

It is so soothing for me to have a place to at times talk about what happened, and show a few photos. It makes my happy you like them.

[gopiscrap]

4. Condolences to you

Love your photos as I am from Germany

[Quemado]

5. I lived in Germany from 1978 to 1980.

I was in the Army, stationed in Augsburg. I wish I had bought a nice camera and taken lots of photos.

Nice photos.

[Mira]

6. Augsburg is my very home town

It's where I lived from age 12 to when I got on the coal freighter in Rotterdam with two suit cases, at age 19, and emigrated to the US. I love Augsburg with all my heart, and feel like I knew every nook and cranny, and all the fast little rivers that run through it. I bet I rode my bike past the Kaserne where you might have stayed.

[Quemado]

7. I lived on Reese Kaserne.

Have you been back to Augsburg? I'm trying to talk my wife into taking a vacation to Europe that would include a side trip to Augsburg.

[Mira]

8. Reese Kaserne. Old stomping grounds for me.

I've been back a number of times - love it always. Please keep encouraging your wife. Show her my photos, maybe.

[Quemado]

9. Was Egon's Domizil there on Ulmerstrasse when you were there?

I used to order a spezi (half beer, half Coke) to drink at Egon's.

Vesuvio's Pizza? I had pizzas delivered to my barracks more times that I can remember.

There was a gasthaus across the street from the west gate of Reese Kaserne.

Heimgarten strassenbahn stop?

Oh, the memories...

[Mira]

10. You MUST go back.

Show this part of your past to your wife. It will be unregrettable. and no, I don't know those places. I was young, and left at 19. I did not drink or smoke then.
Had no money for Pizza. Oldest of 7 kids in post war Germany. I escaped. Should write a book.

[OldEurope]

11. Do it!

Should write a book
Please, please do it!
My mother did write down some of her memories just to tell her brother that he was wrong. We are very happy to have some memories in black and white, because else everything would be lost now.

[Callalily]

12. So sorry to hear about your brother.

The natural cemetery is a great idea.

And...I love your photos.