The Berlin Wall

These are some photos I took of the Berlin wall when I was there a few months ago.
Berlin is an amazingly vibrant city, with a very new and young energy, contrasted by it's historic land marks and "old Europe" appearance.

It was a breathtaking experience to witness this tremendous chunk of history. Embodied in what was once a horrid, forbidding structure, symbolic of fear, alienation and separation, all within a concrete wall, picketed with barbed-wire and guarded by boys with guns.

It was even more exciting to see what had been done with it's ruins. Colored with air-brushes and strokes of radiant colors of paint, the once wall of wars is now a spectacular platform for modern art and self- expression.
I only hope I'll live to see the same done with the wall in our back yard.