summertime and german pie

Tonight is cool and rainy and fairly miserable, but these are some of the things that have been good about Frankfurt lately:

Balcony brunch that ended with raspberry brown sugar gratin (Greek yogurt, half the brown sugar, mixed with blackberries -- perfection). Writing while sipping Eiskaffee on the Freßgass, on days that sent me running for the shade. (Re-)breaking in Katherine's pie plate (best part of today, and sure to be an excellent part of tomorrow, too). Sipping a mojito on the roof at Deck 8, with my feet in a wading pool and the skyline all around. Lounging by the Main on a lazy Sunday, with the hopes of more such summer days to come.