A lovely day in Stade

My husband and I spent a wonderful Sunday in Stade, about 1h to drive from Hamburg. It is his home, and we went to see my p-i-l. Their garden is still full of blossoms, but fall is just around the corner. It was still warm enough to have a nap in the sunshine after lunch. Later, we went to town and visited an exhibition of the German expressionist Max Pechstein, also one of the "degenerate art"-painters (entartete Kunst).
The exhibition was shown in the left building in the top picture. Later, we took a stroll through the town. The door on this picture belongs to the townhall. The sculpture on top of the entrance symbolizes "balance", the art of diplomacy in administration.

We returned to my p-i-l's little paradise. The flower-beds were still humming with bees and bumble-bees. Summer is saying good-bye in the most graceful way with a blue, slightly cloudy sky.