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growth.


in early april i spent some weekend time at my parent's home ( my winter wheels had to come off my car, exchanging them with summer ones & also my car had to have a gas tank reparation ). everything at home was in an early state of blooming, colourful dots popped up everywhere. it was still very grey there - generally the growing in thuringia takes place a little later on than in wiesbaden, where i live. the temperatures in wiesbaden, south hesse, are almost always higher than in erfurt, middle thuringia. it's like its summer here and spring in my homelands.

the cutest little sturdy roses. not actually roses.


gathering of water in plants.

baby rhubarb plants. rainbow colours!

the cat loved to roll around in the dirt. it's baby time!

another droplet in teeny-tiny plants.

mossy twiglets.

furry leaves.

in the evening i had a small walk with my dad by the unstrut. my dad had a bicycle accident one day earlier, and we had to get to the apothecary to get some medicines for him and then we decided to take a photographing stroll.

yellow fragilities.

water bubbles! there was some kind of bubble movement at this particular spot in the river.

unstrut sceneries.



this lake is called the swan lake, because there's a swan family living here for quite some time now.

very idyllic. a lot of other small lakes are scattered in that area.


these blankets are cat & dog blankets and belong to the local animal shelter. even in animal shelters there's spring-cleaning to be done.

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