april: now in spring.

a morning walk through the parks of wiesbaden.

spring and fall are my favourite seasons, because they are both the most colourful ones.

birth and death.

almost open magnolia buds.

the roman columns in the kurpark.

pansies ( stiefmütterchen in german - which means little stepmothers - the stepmother is the biggest petal on the plant and is surrounded by daughters and stepdaughters ) and tulips.

part of the kurhaus. it is truly an amazing building.

trees mirroring in the windows.

this egyptian goose had a strange little friend: a mandarin duck.

it seriously is one beautiful little duck.

stopping by the sonnenberg castle.

the church of the sacred heart in sonnenberg.

bat gate! i am so envious of such a pretty gate!

cherry blossoms.

all those blooming trees are a benefaction to my heart.

yellow and blue.

the assi box. actually it is the gassi box ( basically the ' take the dog out' box - gassi gehen means actually: going out onto the alley, gassi is a belittlement of the word gasse which means alley ). in germany an assi is someone who basically is a social misfit... maybe you could also call them white trash. a lot of assis have dogs... so this is not too far-fetched, haha. ( beware, i'm not lumping together all dog-owners - it is just a word play which i found quite funny. ) oh, and a gassi-box is actually a box which contributes bags for dog feces.

more beauitful trees in bloom.

and a recent photograph. cat blouse & hematite pendant love!

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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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