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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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.

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november: thuringian forest.

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ghost of nature.

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