Wasps and Stumbling Stones

On Tuesday Marty and I went for a walk around our small area of Berlin.  Zehlendorf is a sleepy little corner of the city and we love living here. It is the SW corner, much like our other home in SW Seattle.

While walking we ran across two areas where there were Stumbling Stones."  It really brings the atrocities of the war to life when you see these small stones commemorating the people who were taken/deported and sent to a concentration camp or murdered. Their names are on the stone along with their birth date and when they were deported and when they died if that was known.   I've seen there in other areas of town but was shocked that there were a couple right behind the bus stop we use all the time.  We had never noticed them before.  And again later in our walk we ran across these four.

Later we went for a bite to eat and this little wasp was just hanging around.  The wasps in Berlin this year were NUTS.  It was nearly impossible to eat outside all of August because the minute food came to the table the wasps came out in force.  Last year it was mosquitos, this year wasps.  As annoying as the mosquitos were wasps are much worse.  Even this late into Fall they are still

hanging around.  They are VERY lazy though and must be on their last leg.  This guy barely moved around this ashtray the entire hour we were here.