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autumn impressions.

a selected assortment of autumn related things. ( or things that don't fit into a 'bigger picture' )
i will get around to posting my autumn vacation photos as well. my parents and me visited france a second time and i think it was almost as wonderful as the first time. but i'll get to that soon.

moth in front of a vinyl shop window. i bet you know who's smile it is that strikes at you from the record. elvis!

i went mushroom hunting again, this time with jasmin, the best mushroom finder i have :) but we didn't have a lot of time together this past autumn, i am very sad to admit this.

she's one of our apprentices in the serving area in our market, but recently she's on exchange in a different outlet until january. but soon we'll have her back and our sporadic meetings will stop being sporadic. i think times like these make me realize that there's something worth living for. mostly my life is very grey and i'm so thankful to sometimes have bright spotlights thrown on the grey colours so they don't appear so dull anymore.

and i found my very first octopus stinkhorn!



and we also found this neat caterpillar. so fluffy. i did not dare to touch it, though. i always feel that these critters must have good self defense tools. probably its fluffy brushes were full of tickly poison. (  a kind someone pointed out to me that this fluffball is the caterpillar state of a fox moth. thank you :)! in germany it's called a brombeerspinner - bramble spinner- which is quite self-evident as we found it near bramble bushes )


these pictures are from another walk with jasmin. we explored a tiny bit of erbach - a district of eltville.



erbach is know for its strawberry festival - because wine and strawberries compliment each other very well ( erbach is part of the rheingau viniculture ). this statue shows an insect that is about to pollinate strawberry plants.

the ripe strawberry.


we walked by the rhine...

... and made jump pictures.



someone built stone sculptures again. i love seeing these.




colour tinting the green leaves with autumnal red.


we met this little guy outside of a restaurant.


someone fell in love with this pillow.


a cross spider hanging around.

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Anonymous said…
What a cute caterpillar!=) You don't have to be afraid of your health, they are completely harmless. and also very soft in touch.
17 December 2013 at 19:54
baumtod. said…
@ anonymous: next time i come to meet such a caterpillar i'm goin' to pick it up :) do you know what kind of caterpillar it is?
18 December 2013 at 18:54
Anonymous said…
Yes, I know :3 It's Macrothylacia rubi. At the beginning of Autumn there are tons of those caterpillars in my garden. When i was younger i was catching them, putting in a jar and treating as my own pets
(/ω＼)
18 December 2013 at 21:00
baumtod. said…
@ anonymous: that sounds fabulous. reminds me of the snail races i did with my childhood friend. we were feeding them and then they had to race. thanks for the information :)
19 December 2013 at 18:25
Anonymous said…
Woohoo snail races. It had to be exciting =P You know, i have an impression that i'm the only one who never did it... I always treated snails as something dirty and boring, and definitely prefered "nice" animals, like ladybugs etc. But now i think that snails are one of the most interesting creatures, especially sea snails. I really like their shape. Ahh and that color range!
19 December 2013 at 19:14
baumtod. said…
no snail is ever the same. like everything in nature :)
you couldn't send ladybugs on a race, though :P
20 December 2013 at 22:01
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