buga '11 in koblenz.

the buga is a german federal garden show which takes place in a different city every year. i've seen two bugas, one in my home state thuringia and now the one in koblenz. basically you can get gardening ideas from these shows. i find it very beautiful visually. it also gives you great advice in terms of ecological aspects.

these two pictures were made in eltville.

this building has to do with bionics. you go through it and hear the sonar sounds of bats. the building itself was created as the visual outcome of these sonar sounds. it is complicated to me, but the sounds were beautiful nonetheless.

'the changes of a forest'-building. you had a great view onto koblenz from here. and it was a really interesting exhibition about the forests of our earth. telling about imbalances, uses and what danger human kind is to our trees.

a plant that i find very fascinating: the cypress spurge.

their little blossoms are so delicate.

aloe vera.

they had several mentha with different smells. delicious! i loved the chocolate mint! i didn't know that so many different mints exist. there was a peach mint, melon mint, the pretty normal peppermint, and my alltime favourite lemon balm.

there also was a small raptor exhibition. i love these birds so much. they're so intelligent!

parts of the whole buga area was situated on ehrenbreitstein fortress. it's so spacious that i promised myself to return and explore it further someday.

huge anient cannon. it was at least 3 metres long. impressive.

on the roofs of the fortress they built little gardens. this one has a roman touch.

dad.

wild grasses, sedges, rushes and grains - an iron age garden.

fennel blossoms.

the '50ies' garden.

another exhibit: ceramic worlds. lots of pottery. i love clay for its pristine structures.

those ruinous buildings have a great appeal.

this text basically tells us that we would be in intensive care already with the symptoms that our forests show.

storm coming up.

at the end we had a look at all kinds of roses. i love smelling them. i'm always rather sad when they have beautiful blossoms but don't smell at all. what's the point in that? the odor of a rose is all what a rose needs.

and the drive back.

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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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