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...

autumn impressions.

a selected assortment of autumn related things. ( or things that don't fit into a 'bigger picture' ) i will get around to posting my autumn vacation photos as well. my parents and me visited france a second time and i think it was almost as wonderful as the first time. but i'll get to that soon. moth in front of a vinyl shop window. i bet you know who's smile it is that strikes at you from the record. elvis! i went mushroom hunting again, this time with jasmin, the best mushroom finder i have :) but we didn't have a lot of time together this past autumn, i am very sad to admit this. she's one of our apprentices in the serving area in our market, but recently she's on exchange in a different outlet until january. but soon we'll have her back and our sporadic meetings will stop being sporadic. i think times like these make me realize that there's something worth living for. mostly my life is very grey and i'm so thankful to s...

of dragons & critters and yin & yang kittens.

my cat shadow is a very prolific cat and gives birth to baby sweethearts annually. we always let them grow up until they're old enough to be given away. growing up in a huge garden where they can roam around freely - isn't that the best way to grow up? it's always a joy to visit my parents and my cat in that time of the year. i have also included some pictures of a little rhine trip i made in the middle of may. and the occasional random ones that didn't fit somewhere. rhine wood dragon. sitting on the rhine beach enjoying the beautiful day. my stone collection of the day. ( i seriously have a lot of stones in my home. i love to collect them! ) the river rhine near eltville. random skull assortment ( shot this at the naxoshalle in frankfurt - i was there for a japanese movie festival ) rosey roses. they also smelled heavenly. raindrops on my window. chameleon tail. i adore spirals. baby kittens drinking momma m...

ghost of nature.

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