here i am again after not posting for almost two months. there wasn't simply anything to blog about, especially as i didn't have a chance to shoot anything new. the first two months were spent with withdrawing from society after i had a few disappointing encounters with it again. and there was a lot of work of course. but i did not really feel like going out and exploring new places. until the end of february when i had a two week vacation. that was finally the reason to dust my camera off and go visiting friends near the belgian border, doing a short trip with l. to france ( strasbourg ) & freiburg, and having my parents over in wiesbaden again. those two weeks were filled with a LOT of activities, all of them made up for two months of practically just doing nothing.
and here i begin with the first batch of a lot of pictures to come.
these pictures are from my visit to my friends near the belgian border in north rhine-westphalia. we spent a lot of our time having dog walks in the morning, we also visited a medieval town called monschau and there was a lot of just hanging around and simply having a good friend time.
this picture was shot at my parent's village, while i was visiting them for carnival festivities. it depicts the village's church which is situated right next to the graveyard.
my friends do have a giant poodle called jazz and another friend owns two labradors retrievers named jimmy & lilly. here you see jazz and jimmy sniffing around and generally enjoying being in the woods. lilly was mostly by my side, i think she loved me. she's also such a calm and lovely nature. the boys were just chasing each other all the time and you really needed to watch out for them a lot, but lilly was like 'no, dudes, i'm not impressed by your youthful crazyness' and constantly liked to stay by my side. aw, dogs.
jazz being the little heart stealer he is ;)
the eifel is such a beautiful region with not too high mountains but still hilly landscapes. it was also a hard-fought area in world war II. you can still find a lot of bunkers, mg stands and tank traps.
i love photgraphing this rascal. it is really hard to shoot pictures of running and playing dogs, but now and then even they have to stop to find new orientation.
i love the little silhouette of jazz here :)
the beautiful rursee.
these critters were found in the very old and medieval city of monschau. of course they were not real, imagine such huge spiders would really roam the world. a little bit frightening, no?
monschau is a very old town and the inner city is just proof of that. small alleys, crooked houses and a lot of timber frames. unfortunatly it was a rainy day, but that didn't stop us from exploring the town.
monsters in front of the tiniest houses!
when the time is ready i will move out into a less populated area and into my own tiny timber frame house. it's true: they are my dream houses.
a little bit of british charm in medieval surroundings.
this dragon door knocker was amazing. the house had more dragons attached to it, but it didn't photograph so well.
the pauls'sche haus - a renaissance inspired middle class house built in middle 18th century.
the river rur.
in the back you see the red house, which was the ancestral seat of a cloth manufactorer family.
and under the bridge there were skeleton fish :)
someone seemed to have forgotten that christmas ended already 2 months ago :O
another view onto the red house. unfortunately i don't have a nice picture of the front.
little doors everywhere.
steep and very small stair alleys.
inside the protestant town church.
this bridge over the rur was really tiny.
tiny houses smacked together closley. it's a miracle how crooked they are but still standing their grounds. look at these two houses in the back who almost seem to collapse into the river. i love this so much.
and back we were to dog walking :)
a very nice presentation of dog sizes. i think it's lilly in the front, then jimmy and the biggest one of them all: jazz.
bunker exploring. they were pretty much demolished already.
i always feel totally struck when i'm around remains of the big war. this era of history always interested me immensely, it's almost as if i had a deep connection to this time, even though my family does not have any interesting stories to share about it.
a ruinous wooden pyramid. it was bit creepy.
a mountain chapel.
and thus the first adventure ends.
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