autumn walks : the rhine.

i love doing walks in autumn. i have the feeling that everything is simply more peaceful then. falling leaves, yellow, red, brown, mixed colours. the weather is a little bit cooler, so you're not out of breath after one hour of walking. even the people are not so annoying like in summer or spring. i'm born in autumn and autumn is perhaps my favourite time of the year, even though i like all seasons. recently it doesn't quite feel like autumn though, even if it looks like it. but the temperatures are up to 16 C these days, more like spring time. a lot of flowers still have blossoms and some bushes already developed new leaves, haha.

the first walk i did a week ago, visiting the rhine. rhine is just one of my favourite places in wiesbaden ( that's why i always post so many photos of it :D ), even though the river is most beautiful the more you get to koblenz. i said it before: water just soothes me.

the haven in schierstein.

view onto the taunus.

the storks are out of town.

sycamore trees.

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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