#lovetober: fall colours & animals.

october is my most favourite month of the year - and it's not because i'm always turning one year older every year around this time. it's because of the warm colours that nature wraps us in while it withers. because the hot days of summer are finally gone and i can bundle up again. because of the upcoming season of ghosts and the unknown. it's a golden time with a dark twist, in a melancholic state. i feel welcomed and warmed when fall comes around. i'm always sad when fall bids farewell again. in october i constantly visited animal parks, alone and with friends, so you have to bear with a lot of animal photos.

reminder to calm myself down when things get busy & to not freak out. this was part of the #lovetober challenge.

red leaves leaving shadows on a concrete wall.

warehouse growth.

tree on fire.

poisonous purple.

backyard walls of town villas.

halloween! well, not yet.

i got a day off on my birthday this year ( which i didn't want ), so i spontaneously decided to visit the fasanerie. little bunnies were prancing around!

these sheep were obviously guarding some very secret cave treasure!

and high above in the trees a racoon was trying to find the right sleeping position. i stood there for at least 10 minutes until i finally got a good picture.

and i needed another 10 minutes because this guy is simply the cutest.

hanging upside down.

the wildcats were really active that day. no wonder, a caretaker brought fresh fledglings!

on alert.

i shot this through glass and the outturning effect was really nice!

wet yellow oak leaves.

this year i carved my very first pumpkin! little bat guy was cute, until my pumpkin already withered away 4 days after experiencing appartment heat. i need to move into a flat with a balcony ;_;

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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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