spring walks & medieval seasons.

it's so nice to look back in time. especially when hard times are around and things fuck up badly.

i have a water damage in my appartement for quite some time now and it's all very complicated because the woman living above me declined to open her doors for two weeks. yesterday evening the water came running down again. she witnessed it herself, i made her look at it. and the next morning finally someone came to see what was wrong. and it's all her fault. all the time. apparently she meddled with her shower drains and that was the reason why the water was soaking through my ceilings, putting my kitchen lights out & leaving ugly spots. now we'll see how well everything will dry out, so i can finally order an electrician & a painter. about the costs of it...i guess the woman above and her renter will have to sort this out by themselves. since it came from above all bills will be send there.

and looking at these pictures reminds me of nicer times & it kind of gives me hope for surviving this episode without losing my mind too much...

a bicycle lying around randomly.

stumbling blocks. these signs in the pavement can be found in front of various houses. in former times jews lived there, before world war II began. they are remembrance insignias.

timber-framed houses in idstein.

the weekend after easter there was a medieval market in idstein. of course i'd go and visit it! it was packed but still very nice.

beautifully dissected animals.

the tent of a witch.

tower of the witches.

a knight & his best companion.

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may '20: seeking modernism.

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...

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ghost of nature.

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