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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may '20: seeking modernism.

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...

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 ...

the america chronicles '22: austin I - city of the violet crown.

sighted on the way to austin: the texas colorado river . but beware, this is not the iconic colorado river ( 2.334 km long ) that has its source in the rocky mountains and confluences in the gulf of california, flowing through the grand canyon and other magnificent landscapes along the way, but this is texas' very own colorado river with a length of 1.387 km starting in the llano estacado plains in northwestern texas, and eventually ending up in the gulf of mexico at matagorda bay . why there are two colorado rivers in the US, i really don't know 😅 my guess is, that they were named by two people in different times, not knowing of the other's colorado river discovery. we'll meet the texas colorado river again in austin, so i will probably bestow more information on you eventually ;D a random road squirrel, also found on the way to austin. austin is about 187 miles ( 300 km ) away from baytown and is situated west from there in central texas. it sits at the foot of th...

ghost of nature.

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