Blumen - Selbst Schneiden

Flowers - Self Cutting   

In the states, we get "fresh-cut" flowers and think if they last for a few days maybe a week we are happy.

Well, we got to experience truly fresh cut flowers today.  We were driving to the German grocery store Rewe, (r ah v eh) which by the way was closed for the Easter weekend (through Monday mind you) and decided to stop at this little corner that had these beautiful rows of Tulips for sale.

In Germany, maybe it is specific to Heidelberg, I don't know, there are many many farmers that will have fields of blumen/flowers (bloomen) for self cutting, or Selbst Schneiden (zebst shn I den).  You walk up to their box, or barrel or post and they have a small tin that has little scalpels or small knives, you walk through their fields and cut fresh flowers, and then when you leave, you place the knife back in the box, and place your Euros in the container.  It is all on the honor system.

They do many many things on the honor system here, and it seems to work.

So, we enjoyed a little sun...

Some playing in the dirt for Evan...

 





Some wandering for Sarah and Grace....

And some flower picking for Emma.

  In the end... It was a Very Sweet little outing... our Ausflug



There are a few more pix on the Blumen Page off to the right :)