in the rain, on rabbit's pathways & garden delight.

raindrops on flowers, plants and blossoms are perhaps one of the best things to photograph, don't you agree with me? everything seems so much fresher after a decent rain fall. the colours of plants seem to pop.

happy snail!

in small villages as the one i grew up in, such views are very common!

a very old house near my childhood home. i always wanted to live in there, but it's in great disrepair... you'd have to take a lot of money into your hands to repair and restore everything.

a few years ago, there was still someone living in it. my wish is that in the future someone will buy this little ancient house and will bring it to life again. it would be a shame to let it go to waste.

the following pictures were made back in wiesbaden, on a sunny sunday in early may.

i followed the rabbit hiking trail, but i haven't discovered any.

but these cliffs in the middle of the forest will always be a favourite place of mine.

and some more pictures from early june when i was visiting my parents for a few days. the garden was in full bloom.

another snail slugging around.

poppies & cacti.

little baby kittens exploring the 'underwoods'. my cat shadow's first litter of the year.

clematis growth!

vines conquering trees.

Comments

Anonymous said…

May I ask what's the name of those flowers on your last photo?

17 August 2014 at 23:54

baumtod. said…

yes, of course! i didn't know it first but after looking it up it turns out it's a garden lupin :)

18 August 2014 at 19:27

Anonymous said…

Thank you.
They're so beautiful, don't you think? Especially the violet ones.

18 August 2014 at 21:47

baumtod. said…

they look amazing. i love that they have these different colour tones! imagine yourself in a field of these... what a perfect setting :)

19 August 2014 at 21:00

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 ...

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...

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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