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

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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