sunset, sunrise & kittens.

in my first week of vacations i didn't do much except waiting for my kitchen & bathroom to be renovated. as i've written before i had a water damage in late april, early may. everything has been sorted out & there are no costs for me as the building's assurance company will incur any expenses. everything's bright & shiny now and my kitchen isn't dark green anymore. i've never like that colour & i had already thought about painting it anyway. now the painting of my boss' brother looks much more effective :)

at the end of my first week i drove to thuringia - had to run some errands before my parents & me would head to france. like giving baby kittens a new home :) i have made some last pictures before i bid them goodbye.

the very shy & 'evil' one. she was my favourite, but unfortunately she didn't like me :(

one of the friendliest baby kittens i ever met :) she was very cuddly & nice & laid-back.

mommy cat shadow.

playing :)

that face kills me everytime.

ah~ i'm going to miss them.

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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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