bygone summerdays.

after some rain and cloudy skies we had summer time waiting for us. so we decided to go swimming, sunbathing, reading and relaxing. in the evenings we took walks by the rhine, which was so soothing in any way possible. i know, i'm a water girl by heart.

me & nici posing on the blanket at the lido.

doesn't really look like me. but it actually is.

clear, blue lido water.

we made a short trip to eltville.

i love these small little houses. oh, i wish i'd be living in one.

swans were checking the river out.

eltville is a small city known for its roses. you can find them everywhere! the remains of the elector's castle house a small rose garden as well.

random teddy hanging in a tree. wonder how he got there. the tree was quite tall.

young plants rising. i love being at my parent's home, their garden is full of little plants and flowers.

nothing can age so beautifully.

shadow - my cat. i miss her a lot.

in the garden of my childhood home.

well, next post will finally contain the baltic sea.

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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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