Castle Park

Erlangen, Germany, about 1946 or 1947. Here's another postcard Mom saved from her medical-school days. This is not the same park Mom frequented.

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Erlangen Germany, 1946. My Mom and her medical-school roommate had a photographic day.

Get out and enjoy the weather.

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom and her medical-school roommate continue their tour of Palmsanlage.

Palmsanlage Ivy

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom and her medical-school roommate greet their photographer from a window near the university campus.

Balcony

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom's roommate and my Mom pose at their apartment.

Palmsanlage

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom and her medical-school roommate explore the Palmsanlage, a park near Erlangen's University Clinics. Decorating with indoor palms was very fashionable in the early part of the twentieth century. But I had never before seen palms used so extensively outdoors in a northern climate.

Framed

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom and her medical-school roommate pose at their apartment window.

Let's take a walk after classes end.

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom, on the right, and her medical-school roommate walk through a city park.

General Manners:* It's usually not polite to point.

Unless you see an interesting reptile, like a turtle:

Suburban Chicago, Autumn 1963. I stand along a bank of the Des Plaines River, in the Forest Preserve, and I ask my Dad to take a picture of a turtle. See?

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Or unless you see some interesting birds, like some ducks:

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom and her medical-school roommate point to some ducks swimming in a public park.

*Here, I continue the non-holiday version of the series, "Christmas Manners."

Let's walk around the campus and take pictures.

Erlangen, Germany, 1946. My Mom, on the left, and her medical-school roommate walk on the grounds of the University of Erlangen campus. Behind the women stand the buildings that housed the medical-school clinics.