Little Things // Kandern

Little things I love about Kandern:

+ red-tiled roofs
+ shop signs and pictures painted directly onto the walls of buildings
+ the community support of recycling
+ listening to the people around me converse in German
+ old wooden doors
+ the roses growing in almost every garden
+ colorful wooden shutters
+ flowerboxes in windowsills
+ the way doors can be doors or windows
+ no mosquitoes, so people can forego screens yet still leave windows and doors open
+ having everything within walking distance
+ being out in the countryside after only a ten-minute drive
+ the church tower watching over everything
+ the church clock ringing its own special tune each hour (each small town around here has their own church tower, and each church tower plays its own tune)
+ the red and yellow flags hung across the main street
+ the bright blue fountain in the town square
+ little roads and alleys between houses and yards, sided by fences or green hedges
+ the community gardens full of flowers
+ the shortcut to the grocery store that leads you between walls of hedges
+ the brook babbling through town
+ mallard ducks playing in the brook
+ ivy climbing up old walls