While friends in Portland are lamenting their blast of temps in the mid-90 to low 100 degrees farenheit this week, here on the other side of the world our August is downright chilly by comparison, with tomorrow's daytime high forcast to be a rather Autumn-like 58F. And raining to boot.
The photo is a shot of the north side of St Sebaldus Church in the Altstadt taken this winter-- and it was a long, cold, miserable winter at that. Church construction first began in the 1230's, though the building as we know and see it today was built around that "core" and enlarged and remodeled well into the 17th century. It's interesting to note that the church organist at St. Sebaldus (a very important position back in the day) from 1695-1706 was Johann Pachelbel, perhaps best known for his baroque composition Canon in D major (aka "Pachelbel's Canon"), and regularly played at weddings to this day.
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