being at home + being in another animal park.

here's the rest of my promised pictures. i keep it short with text today. my bed awaits me, work is calling me early tomorrow.

please note that it was early november. why do flowers still bloom in november? uhm. and now we're in deep winter with icy temperatures and snow. talk about weather moods.

and shadow begging for milk. i love when she does that.

my beautiful cat has a pretty side profile <3 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar">weimar. and we did a small walk through ilm-park. so that i could get some fresh air after i had a terrible night with semi paralysis, terrible head aches and sick tummy included.

a lot of ducks and swans were around. even a mandarin-duck! do you spot it?

duchess anna amalia library.

the back of the city palais with bastille.

back in wiesbaden, i had the urge to visit the fasanerie again. it was pacifier day. i also met a colleague of mine, and showed him and his girlfriend around.

we found another one. also hanging on the tree. trés chic.

view onto the fasanerie buildings.

my camera made horrible pictures that day. so... only a few. a beautiful deer.

and a posing wild boar. he was hilarious, the tree roots served as a backup.

i got lilies and roses at work. the lilies smelled heavenly. even after 5 days.

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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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