It's spargel (asparagus) season and this is a metal sculpture which depicts a little girl with her dog who has come to the local farmers market to buy some spargel for her family. Much of the spargel here is white and grows underground in very neatly arranged rows.

We went to the Schwetzingen Palace with its wonderful gardens last weekend. The palace gardens were designed many years ago and cover almost 100 acres. A lot of the trees have been sculptured to look like the ones in this picture and were planted with a long distance future over a hundred years ago.

This is a replica of a turkish mosque which occupies quite a few acres in these gardens. Since they cannot have any graven images on display, there are some wonderful sayings which are shown throughout in arabic and german. The outside is pink but the inside is covered with blue and yellow designs.

This is Elder Curtis who lives in the Colonial Hills Ward and has been adopted into the "gully gang" which is a couple of generations older than he. He has accepted to provide some youth and vigor to the aging warriors. He is one of our favorite missionaries. Despite some physical challenges, he is out working hard everyday. This is looking towards downtown Frankfurt and was taken from our apartment balcony.