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.

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 ...

november: thuringian forest.

the day we visited the thuringian forest near luisenthal we would also receive the death notice of my cousin. while the day in luisenthal was pretty magic - i even found a goat skull to take home for my not so fast growing skull collection - the time we got home and received the phone call of my grandmother, everything went dull. we always had hoped for him to recover - over the course of his sickness there were multiple times we'd thought he was on his way up, but that also counted for the times it was clear that the cancer was severe and probably not defeatable. in the end he fought four years, but he couldn't conquer. his constant optimism & general good will wasn't enough as his body decided to give up on him. i'm still thinking a lot about him, he was such a good natured guy, always seeing the good in everything and everyone. it's so strange to know that he's never going to be on any future family party gathering again. we discussed so many things whe...

ghost of nature.

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