I’ve made my travel reservations for Paris and Amsterdam at the end of July. Except for booking the Paris-Amsterdam train, which I’m having trouble with. Now it would be nice to find friends in Paris to meet up with! I’m taking a sleeper train Berlin-Paris on July 20, staying in a youth hostel until July 25 when I go to Amsterdam, and then in another youth hostel until my flight out the morning of July 28. Have I mentioned I’m not looking forward to leaving Germany? :( Lately I’ve been feeling more at home here than I think I’ve ever felt in Rochester.

Here are more pictures from my normal walking route, when I was taking pictures for my “landscape portrait” project. And I finally know what they’re growing in the fields around here! I’ve been kind of confused to be surrounded by things other than corn and soybeans…