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early spring.

these pictures are just from several spring walks i did on my own and with a friend. the first batch i made while visiting bad schwalbach - a spa town in the taunus mountains.

spring didn't arrive here yet, but the nature was about to explode in greens and bright colours.

i love how the tree's true colour is so grey that you could almost miss it and then the moss on it takes it to a whole different level.

a tree that was felled not too long ago.

and the other half of it. it was huge.

gluey resin.


small mountain creeks.

i love how it looks like it's late autumn, early november.


on the way back home i got to experience this wonderful sunset over the taunus mountains.

and an almost full moon in the night.

a single picture of the frankfurt skyline. ( i visited dearest l. on this day )

and then there was the day when i met up with n. to do our annual spring walk. it was a good day, we rarely get together anymore, everybody lives their own life with their own problems, but when we get together it's almost as if we never stopped seeing in each other.

beautiful daffodil.

magnolia trees are probably the most magnificient bloomers ever. unfortunately they don't smell as heavenly as they look.


they were already falling apart.


i took a bath in this sea of blossom :)

young goslins!


the freshest green you will find is always the springy kind ;)

this proofs: old people rock!

the japanese maples and their teeny tiny blossoms and leaves. i swear, this tree is maybe my most favourite tree, ever.

and the interior of the kurhaus hallway.

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