Stop and smell the flowers

It is amazing what you’ll find, sometimes in the most unlikely of places. This time it was on one of the most unspectacular corners in Berlin near my home in the neighborhood of Weissensee. I was on my way to the supermarket, when I was forced to  stop because I was overwhelmed by the scent of flowers. Roses to be exact. Though I find myself on this corner on almost a daily basis, I had never noticed the flowers before.

It wasn’t just a bed of flowers either, but what appeared to be an entire field of roses. Trampling through the field was a shirtless homeless man, leaning down to sniff each individual rose. When he found the one he wanted, he plucked it and stuck it behind his ear.

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