of dragons & critters and yin & yang kittens.

my cat shadow is a very prolific cat and gives birth to baby sweethearts annually. we always let them grow up until they're old enough to be given away. growing up in a huge garden where they can roam around freely - isn't that the best way to grow up? it's always a joy to visit my parents and my cat in that time of the year.

i have also included some pictures of a little rhine trip i made in the middle of may. and the occasional random ones that didn't fit somewhere.

rhine wood dragon.

sitting on the rhine beach enjoying the beautiful day.

my stone collection of the day. ( i seriously have a lot of stones in my home. i love to collect them! )

the river rhine near eltville.

random skull assortment ( shot this at the naxoshalle in frankfurt - i was there for a japanese movie festival )

rosey roses. they also smelled heavenly.

raindrops on my window.

chameleon tail. i adore spirals.

baby kittens drinking momma milk.

momma cat resting.

milk snout!

this is cooper and he now lives with j. - a dear friend of mine - who's very happy to have this little rascal in her life.

my beautiful shadow cat <3 p="">

itsy bitsy spiders in poison green colours.

look at these cutiepies sleeping on a log!

so adorable!

do not disturb me in my sleep, woman!

yin and yang.

don't spread yourself out so much, i wanna sleep on here, too!

rose red noses!

cleansing my precious fur.

and my take on melon pie!

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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