autumn impressions.

a selected assortment of autumn related things. ( or things that don't fit into a 'bigger picture' )

i will get around to posting my autumn vacation photos as well. my parents and me visited france a second time and i think it was almost as wonderful as the first time. but i'll get to that soon.

moth in front of a vinyl shop window. i bet you know who's smile it is that strikes at you from the record. elvis!

i went mushroom hunting again, this time with jasmin, the best mushroom finder i have :) but we didn't have a lot of time together this past autumn, i am very sad to admit this.

she's one of our apprentices in the serving area in our market, but recently she's on exchange in a different outlet until january. but soon we'll have her back and our sporadic meetings will stop being sporadic. i think times like these make me realize that there's something worth living for. mostly my life is very grey and i'm so thankful to sometimes have bright spotlights thrown on the grey colours so they don't appear so dull anymore.

and i found my very first octopus stinkhorn!

and we also found this neat caterpillar. so fluffy. i did not dare to touch it, though. i always feel that these critters must have good self defense tools. probably its fluffy brushes were full of tickly poison. ( a kind someone pointed out to me that this fluffball is the caterpillar state of a fox moth. thank you :)! in germany it's called a brombeerspinner - bramble spinner- which is quite self-evident as we found it near bramble bushes )

these pictures are from another walk with jasmin. we explored a tiny bit of erbach - a district of eltville.

erbach is know for its strawberry festival - because wine and strawberries compliment each other very well ( erbach is part of the rheingau viniculture ). this statue shows an insect that is about to pollinate strawberry plants.

the ripe strawberry.

we walked by the rhine...

... and made jump pictures.

someone built stone sculptures again. i love seeing these.

colour tinting the green leaves with autumnal red.

we met this little guy outside of a restaurant.

someone fell in love with this pillow.

a cross spider hanging around.

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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