#lovetober: birthday shenanigans.

october is my birth month and i always try to celebrate it by doing more things i enjoy. i don't like birthday parties at all, a day in nature or exploring a new place is much more to my liking when it comes to 'celebrate'. it's wonderful when family or friends accompany me, but i also like the solitude of experiencing something without any distractions. ( most of the time my friends aren't part of that, daily life occupations detain them from joining me & even a totally different life style ( waking up at 3 pm for example ) cross them off my company list - sadly. )

so when my parents are visiting i always know: exploring time galore! they are the best people for taking in what mother earth has to offer, for learning about historical facts at the places we are visiting and enjoying good food on our trips.

my birthday was in the middle of the week, and on the weekend my parents came to visit. we enjoyed a wonderful walk through the goldsteintal and ended our day eating mussels by the rhine.

a week later i met up with two friends of mine, celebrating my birthday month in the animal park fasanerie ( again :) ).

bug crawling over leaves.

young slug on a mushroom :)

the end of the tunnel.

enlightenment.

the skeleton of a very red leave.

the warm colours autumn has to offer are making me most happy.

bursting snowberries.

a last view onto the rhine.

morning routine.

this bucket list was part of the #lovetober challenge.

stork adebar.

pink bubbly sparkly wine!

uncommon peacock plumage.

sheering out of the line.

recently this mermaid graffiti popped up in the city and it's seriously pretty perfect!

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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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