april: forest and city walks.

in erfurt there's a forest called steigerwald, and it's basically where erfurt citizen go, if they want to relax and clear their minds. you can see a lot of joggers and cyclists around there. there's a long established italian restaurant up there, too, a ( not so ) secret ( anymore ) institution, which serves fantastic italian cuisine and solid home-brewed beer. we were visiting my brother in erfurt and thus decided to do a little walk there. it's a rather swampy area, so if you leave the paths it can happen that you end up with wet feet if you're not cautious.

a lot of anemones were growing at the time we were there, white and soft lilac ones.

boggy swamp! i'd have really loved it to explore more, but my companions didn't want to.

light blue tiny blossom.

tulips by a bench.

old boundary stone.

wild viola.

the park near my flat is so beautiful in spring. always.

a view onto wiesbaden and the taunus mountains in the back.

i discovered a breathtaking graffiti while roaming around near the schlachthof. this is by far my most favourite graffiti in the whole city.

schlachthof sculpture. the schlachthof is a cultural centre right next to the main station. concerts, flea markets & festivals are taking place here, and it's a rather cool institution. every year the schlachthof hosts a festival called folklore - they showcase a mishmash of all kinds of music styles in a kind of hippie-esque surrounding. this year it will be a bit more expensive than in the past years, but i think 25 euro for a festival day is quite okay-ish if you want to spend a whole day there. and like i said, there are a lot of interesting artists and bands and nice activities.

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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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