october: autumnal wiesbaden.

october is my favourite month of the year. and it's not because my birthday falls into this time, but it's because of how nature changes. the golden light, red and yellow and brown colours, the colour change of green into warm tones, the brightness of summer finally fades into these hues of warmth and there's this nostalgic feeling in the air. i love when nature 'dies' it just glows up again before it is letting go of its vibrancy. mushrooms are growing, the leaves get a last vibrant colour before leaving their home trees, and the sun with its golden shine... it just feels like homebase to me. autumn is kind of my happy place when it comes to favourite seasons. i often do more walks in autumn than in any other seasons. i just want to enjoy this time as much as i can. i also love spring for the exact same kind of feelings. because there are dots of colours budding up again in a grey world. i love the birth and death of nature so much and spring and autumn, they represent those life states to me.

here are some shots i made around wiesbaden on a few occassions.

mushroom overload

swampy forest.

walking in the nerotal park.

feathery japanese maple leaves.

chinese beautyberries, i just love the lilac colour of these.

in german it's called liebesperlenstrauch ( love beads bush ).

there's this deer sculpture inside one of the ponds in the park, that i completely adore.

in the background there's the viaduct of the nerobergbahn.

the bench with the tree growing out of it is also a favourite of mine.

the redness of japanese maple trees always get me in awe. the best red, really!

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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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