
A man at a gas station near Schweinfurt, some 150 kms (90 mls) east of Frankfurt, Sep.26.

A man at a gas station near Schweinfurt, some 150 kms (90 mls) east of Frankfurt, Sep.26.

A fireman among smoldering remains of car tires that caught fire at a storage site in Gernsheim, some 50 kms (30 mls) south of Frankfurt in the early morning hours of Sep.23.

84-year-old Emma Rossmann stands behind her assortment of garden gnomes in the window of her “Dippemarkt” shop in Frankfurt, Sep.20. For over 40 years she has been selling stoneware, Black Forest clocks (in the background), “Bembels”, the city’s typical mugs with clay handles used for cider, and garden gnomes. By the way, I learned that garden or lawn gnomes as we know them appeared first in Germany in the mid 1800s.