Back in Germany

So I came back to Germany in January - as you probably know if you are reading this, since if you are reading this you probably know me (and will hopefully at least have noticed you haven't seen me in a while), and if you don't know me you probably aren't reading this (although if this applies to you, then clearly you are reading it, but I just don't know it).

Anyhow, I decided not to write on this more extended trip to Heidelberg.  But it turns out that, given time and freedom and a whole new country in which to do anything, I still don't do a lot.  So I'm starting again, in a slightly different and considerably reduced way, and adding it here rather than cluttering up some other part of the digital universe.

Admittedly, a large part of the inspiration is that I started some German writing (which, as yet, has both a confirmed readership, and potential counting error, of one) in order to get some more language practice.  I wondered if Google Translator could make it comprehensible in English.  It could not.  One or both of Google Translator and I aren't very good at German and/or English.  So I'll translate it or, more accurately, rewrite it here using a refreshingly less taxing language.

There are more pictures this time because, always wishing to line up birds like skittles so that I might knock down as many as possible with the fewest stones of effort, I'm trying to incorporate my drawing practice, executed in Heidelberg's coffee houses and restaurants and mostly inspired by whoever I happen to have seen on the street.

Hello.