december: talking about christmas time.

i have to admit, it kind of feels strange to write this entry in the middle of spring. but i want to keep a chronological order on this blog ( my hope is, that i will eventually catch up to the present, and maybe by then get some ideas what else i can offer on this blog of mine - i know, it's a little pretentious, i guess, as i'm hoping for something silly ).

december is oftentimes the month of the year when i'm not shooting much. i don't know, but it's not necessarily my favourite time of the year, i guess it has something to do with my job, as it's getting really hectic around that time and people freak out and i freak out and another year's ending, and i always realize i still haven't found what i want to do with my life.

while i don't actually hate christmas season itself, i still have a hard time, always. maybe it's the dark winter season, maybe it's something else, but it seems to affect my moods so much, that i rarely feel like photographing a lot.

so this is the whole of december, beginning with pictures from the christmas market in frankfurt.

i met up with a frankfurt friend of mine, and we decided to ride the nostalgic merry-go-round on the römerberg.

the twinkling christmas tree in front of the römer city hall.

another merry-go-round near saint paul's church.

i found this really perfect dragon oil lamp! i wish i'd bought it, it's such a great object!

another time in frankfurt i met up with my friend again to go to the symphonic rilke project: dir zur feier. it was an event to commemorate rainer maria rilke's 140th birthday and it took place in the frankfurt opera, a beautiful building inside and out.

it was seriously a mind-bending experience with acts like ben becker, robert stadtlober, nina hoger, hannelore elsner, max mutzke, peter maffay performing the beautiful poetry of rainer maria rilke in the setting of space and outer space and within a wonderful musical frame. it made me dive into the poetry of rilke soon after. at the moment he's my most favourite poet.

in front of the opera.

inside the opera. we were pretty early, hence the few people sitting around.

some random photos out of my window when the sky looked absolutely crazy one morning.

for christmas i visited my parents.

in the basement of my parent's house.

on boxing day we visited the animal and recreation park possen near sondershausen.

we met the most beautiful pink mini pigs!

and looked into the amber-coloured eyes of emus.

the possen tower was built in tudor style and is said to be one of the oldest observation towers in europe.

lovely deer.

look at this aristocratic side profile!

i love this silly photo ;)

a striped plushy something?

yes, baby boars! i loved watching them playing with each other. they are the cutest!

i don't know what game this was, either pushcart or something a tiny bit g-rated?

it seemed fun, nonetheless xD

pigs and goats in one compound.

we marvelled at these amazing ankole longhorns.

their eyes were so soft-spoken. while their horns could certainly spike you up!

and my personal favourite of the whole park were the cheetahs! still, i wish i could see them in their natural habitat, even the biggest compound is still too small for these gracious animals.

on the last day of my visit we headed to weimar. the christmas market was still on display.

inside the weimar atrium, a shopping mall.

christmas arch stall.

huge christmas pyramid.

christmas season is tea season.

and now off to january 2016!

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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