fasanerie & mainz cathedral.

i was on vacations for 3 weeks, the reaon why i didn't update lately. the first week i spent partly in wiesbaden and partly in thuringia, the next week we were in france, the last week was spent in wiesbaden again with my parents. it was splendid! everyday we had a different programme and i must say i loved the hiking trips we made the most. i will post pictures about my adventures of course, but first i need to get rid off these. i made these before i went on vacations.

the fasanerie was the last thing i visited together with my parents when they were here at the pentecost weekend. i'm so glad that we have this little animal park jewel here in wiesbaden. you don't have to pay entry, the park lives off donations. and because it is so loved by many people they sure get a lot of donations as new homes for the animals are realized every year. and it's worth donating a few euro every visit, really.

a cat greeting us at the front garden.

a wisent peacefully grazeing the grounds.

a bear playing with a coconut ball.

wild boar poser.

on grazile doe feet.

such beautiful animals.

fox behind fence. they really need a new home, but everything in due course.

goose fledglings <3 p="">

stork couple.

one day i visited n. in mainz & it was all rainy that day so we decided to visit the mainz cathedral. i went there before & found it a very dark & gloomy building, full of dark symbols. the cathedral is over 1000 years old and i think you can really feel that. of course people renovated it over this time span again & again but some graves or some of the interior really reeks of ancient times. even though the cathedral is sending out dark signals you still are left with a mesmerized feeling & leave the cathedral with a lot of respect for its erectors. this time i also visited the cloister the first time - a neat inner courtyard. and there is still one more thing i didn't see yet and which will require me going back: the cathedral museum with its treasury.

altar of the virgin mary.

greetings from the grave. this man was called reichsgraf karl adam von lamberg.

modern jesus sculpture.

a golden shrine in the east crypt.

the cloister.

there were some small blue rats spread around the whole facility. these rats are actually mice and their function is to show children around the cathedral.

we were quite intrigued by these mighty blue mice :)

we were constantly walking over graves ( the whole cloister seems to have been a graveyard facility ), and occasionally you found a creepy looking statue in one of the many niches.

a beautiful hallway.

funerary monument of cathedral provost heinrich ferdinand von der leyen.

the west apse.

modern take of christianism.

aisle view to the east.

lion gate knocker.

the little alley guiding out and into the cathedral.

horrible looking mythical creatures. ( they are too alien for me... and i really fear aliens. )

fish on the wall :)

right next to where n.'s boyfriend lives there is a building with this figure up on the rooftop. i had to look twice until i finally realized what an amazing statue this is :)

the view out of the appartement.

and we ate my delicious selfmade rhubarb cake and drank hot coffee to warm us up after this spooky but still magical day in the mainz cathedral.

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...

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 ...

the america chronicles '22: austin I - city of the violet crown.

sighted on the way to austin: the texas colorado river . but beware, this is not the iconic colorado river ( 2.334 km long ) that has its source in the rocky mountains and confluences in the gulf of california, flowing through the grand canyon and other magnificent landscapes along the way, but this is texas' very own colorado river with a length of 1.387 km starting in the llano estacado plains in northwestern texas, and eventually ending up in the gulf of mexico at matagorda bay . why there are two colorado rivers in the US, i really don't know 😅 my guess is, that they were named by two people in different times, not knowing of the other's colorado river discovery. we'll meet the texas colorado river again in austin, so i will probably bestow more information on you eventually ;D a random road squirrel, also found on the way to austin. austin is about 187 miles ( 300 km ) away from baytown and is situated west from there in central texas. it sits at the foot of th...

ghost of nature.

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