Dare Eat A Lion

Bread we got at our usual bakery – made with Löwenzahn - dandelion. You just have to try it when the time is ripe for that stuff – especially when you live here ;-)

Wanna join me on a walk to the shopping Centre?

It´s all lush and green now over here:

Funny how the whole tree is covered, no? Down to the ground!

People sure do care about this town – isn´t that sign for Amalienstr. 1 just cute?

So, this is the way to the “mall” White Horse, no idea why the name… but it leads us right next by river Oker:

Idyllic, no? The river itself looks kinda arty here, I think:

Here is the need for big houses to stuff in people, but they at least try to make it look nice by using bright colors and providing green areas:

In the mall we got hungry. This is the bakery:

Yep, a pic of our Henry the Lion – you find him in the heart of our city. And what did we find to eat?

Boy, the people here are so proud of their town, it´s cute (and yes, we´re two of them) – and yummy too:

A breadroll that is a Lion´s head! (See? The title made sense after all…)

We also found a Tiger in the mall:

Ok. It´s just zwieback/rusk made look nice by using Janosch`s stripey Tiger-Duck. (Link is truly worth a look an d all pics you can enlarge) And no, I didn´t go for it.

At first I was willing to – last Thursday I gave Niece a night-light with the Duck kissing her friend the Frog.

But Niece eats all the time anyway! So, I thought I´ll bring her a Janosch-book tomorrow (but it´s from ages 3+ ... (I really have to learn what she can do when!)).
The book is about the Tiger (owner of the Tiger-Duck) and his friend, the Bear getting lots of visitors by chance. It comes with a “real” doorbell, guess time comes she´s gonna like it.

After all…. They make dinner for everyone ;-)

(Janosch is very popular here. His books even are translated to English to encourage kids to learn.)

Being here like that also means asparagus from this region is offered (and taken by Ingo):

Sadly this is not the rule. Most products come from far away, like milk from Southern Germany. But this huge food-chain is trying to get local where possible, I really do like that.

Ingo with a – by pure chance – green shopping-bag:

And this was on the way home, too:

People are getting sick of others letting their dogs poo in these places and don´t take it away afterwards, so they fenced the place (they put the flowers there privately and care for them, too).
But still they show a sense of humor – or diplomacy?
The sign says "No dog-loo!".

I hope you enjoyed a little “walk” around here.