april: garden in full bloom.

in the middle of april i went home to my parents for a week of vacation and boy, did i need that. i did a lot of walking and exploring on my own, but also took in the beauty that is my homeland. our garden just started to bloom while i was there. in my humble opinion, my parents do have the best garden i know, there's always something to discover!

little magnolia tree blossoms!

and buds.

my cat shadow being overly attentive to garden activities. she's living outside all year round because my mother has a cat hair allergy, but she's been loyal for 6 years now and loves her people a lot, even though she's got some kind of bitchy personality. don't hassle with her - she has really sharp claws. the sweetest moments are those when she lays down right next to you on the deck chair and purrs and cuddles with you. it is rare, but when she does it, it's really heart-warming and really a proof of her love.

a blackbird laid eggs in the woodshed. look at them turquoise-coloured beauties!

the peach trees were in full glory as well. seriously, all fruit trees have the best and most delicate blossoms. i will never get tired of any fruit tree blooming.

daffodil.

persian buttercups are pretty great in texture, don't you agree?

those hyacinths were smelling heavenly!

if a photograph could capture the odour of these, you would close your eyes and breathe in deeply now ;)

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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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