Category Archives: Urban Nature

Church, Geismar. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Roadside Grave, Geismar. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Urban Nature, Wilderness

Article: Germany supports trillion-tree campaign

April 25, 2016 scarlett

Trees, Treptower Park, Berlin. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Germany supports trillion-tree campaign

Germany’s development ministry has announced its support for a massive world-wide tree-planting campaign spearheaded by Plant-for-the-Planet, an NGO launched in 2007 by a then nine-year-old boy.

Art, Berlin, Photos, Urban Nature

Gallery: Friedhöfe vor dem Halleschen Tor

April 21, 2016 scarlett

I spent the day in Kreuzberg with my friends Elliott and Ben. We found this cemetery that had not only Felix Mendelssohn’s grave, but also E.T.A. Hoffmann, the Romantic-era author of the book The Nutcracker was based on, as well as the protagonist of Offenbach’s opera Tales of Hoffman.

Angela Brower (Nicklausse) and Diana Damrau (Giulietta) in the 4th act of Jacques Offenbach’s “Les contes d’Hoffmann” in a production by Richard Jones. Bayerische Staatsoper 2011.

Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof II - Trinity Cemetery, Berlin. Photo by Scarlett Messenger — Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof II – Trinity Cemetery, Berlin. Photo by Scarlett Messenger

Art, Berlin, History, Personal Journal, Photos, Urban Nature

Gallery: Viktoriapark

April 21, 2016 scarlett

I went to Viktoriapark in Kreuzberg with my friends Elliott and Ben. We had radlers in the Biergarten and then walked up the hill to the Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars, which actually predates Germany as a nation (1821). It is a beautiful Neoclassical spire commemorating the German Campaign of 1813 during the Napoleonic Wars. From the top of Kreuzberg you can see the entire city. It was a fun afternoon.