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it's christmas season again, for some people that means it's time to reflect the year and calm down a bit, for others it means stress with buying the perfect gifts, or working extra long shifts. for me it is both. i cherish all the free time i still have before the cruel run on our meat/fish/cheese counters starts. i visit christmas markets, meet with colleagues, enjoy the snow but also fear the masses storming in the supermarket, leaving us exhausted and stressed.
actually i don't celebrate christmas on the 24th, but more so on the 25th, because i always work on christmas. you could say that not father christmas is coming to me but the american santa claus, haha. anyway those two days off will hopefully do me good, it's like a mini vacation before the stress towards new year´s eve ends the year.
maybe i'll do a little retrospect of this year as well, we'll see.

here are a few christmas-y photos for you to enjoy ( or not ). these pictures were shot when my parents visited me last weekend. and some of them were also shot today.

rüdesheim christmas market.

dad tried on a panda hat. he looked really cute, haha.



winter walk in wiesbaden's inner city.


let me tell you one fact: wiesbaden's second population species are the squirrels, really! i'd say wiesbaden is secretly called squirrel town.



christmas market wiesbaden.

the lilies are the trademarks of wiesbaden. you can find them in the crest of wiesbaden and everywhere in town.

shot today.

melty. it belongs to a christmas light statue.



a little bit of snow. always melts away ;-;



but we get regular snow storms.


pictured here is a wonderful highlight of the past week. on friday night, when my parents and me wanted to go to the christmas market and took out the newspaper trash to put into the containers we found lots of books thrown in there! we searched through them and pulled out at least 20 very good books! it was like christmas came too early, haha! my neighbour who lives below me is moving out currently and i suppose he didn't need them anymore, but please... why would you want to throw away books? i'm glad we found them... especially after i saw that bob dylan book. are you kidding me? and then came jud süß... and yeats, and tucholsky... and i was like... YOU STILL KIDDING ME? i don't need no presents anymore. i'm gifted for a whole year now.

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Diz said…
das ganze glitter und blingbling ist alles, was mir noch am weihnachten gefällt. wobei auch das nicht wirklich stimmung macht. aber wenigstens macht es die dunkelheit etwas heller.

wahnsinn, dass jemand bücher derart entsorgt! da macht es ja mehr sinn, den tv in die tonne zu kloppen. manche haben echt eine macke. bücherrettung - ein echtes advents-highlight!
12 December 2010 at 19:30
baumtod. said…
@ diz:
ja, das finde ich an weihnachten und der weihnachtszeit auch am besten. den konsum, auf den könnte ich verzichten. leider bekomme ich es ja mit. ansonsten wäre das alles wohl eine besinnlichere zeit für mich, haha.

was die bücher angeht: ich dachte, ich spinne! haha. es gibt überall in der stadt kleine anlaufstellen, wo man bücher verkaufen oder tauschen kann, oder einfach nur hineinstellen, so dass ein anderer, der vielleicht interesse daran hat, zugang dazu bekommt. unverständlich.
12 December 2010 at 21:42
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