so we've finally gotten to the year 2016! january to be exact. and of course i continue with my love for animals and nature... and snow! we only had like 2 days of snow this winter, which is kind of a bummer. i'm not a big fan of winter, unless it's a winter with much of snow! i love snow. but as we're getting so few of it these days, it's kind of like a very unlikeable season to me. it's too dark too early and the sky is almost always grey which really dampens my mood a lot. like i said in the last post, it's a time were you start to realize what you accomplished ( or better what you haven't ) and this always gets me everytime, at the end of the year and also at the beginning of a new one. you hope for a better year, but when you look back, you already know it will probably not get any better unless a big thing happens all of a sudden.
all i know is now, in april, this year's got the worst start ever, i cannot count the times anymore people around me were sick, or found themselves in upheaving situations and they still continue to do so. i myself have been relatively unscathed by happenings in my immediate surroundings ( except a few things that i consider unworthy to talk about - compared to the experiences my friends and colleagues have to go through ), but it still affects me that acquaintances have had so many unlucky and unhappy times lately. i don't know, probably it's got something to do with me being unable to be an empathetic human being... and blaming myself for not being more supportive and helpful... i mean, i try to, but i always have the feeling that it's never enough and that i'm maybe sometimes a little too selfish in my decisions. ah, well.
let's continue with pictures!
on the first day of january i met up with an acquaintance to have a new year's walk at the local zoo, fasanerie wiesbaden. if you've been following along for more than a while ( which i actually doubt ), you know that this animal park is a favourite of mine and i'm visiting at least two times a year! it's only a small one, but i love it nonetheless, especially because in recent years they are building new and bigger compounds and it's really exciting for me to go there and see what changed again. it's a park full of native animals and i think it's really important to show people what kind of wonderful wild life they have just around the corner, living in the woods. they also have wolves and bears and lynxes, animals that are not so native anymore but are on their way to making it back to these regions! unfortunately i'm still not skilled enough to shoot photos of bears and wolves and lynxes, but i guess i will try it again and again, until i've managed to take decent photos.
golden pheasant. so colourful!
the day was gray and foggy, actually a really beautiful kind of weather!
we said hi to the deer friends! this beautiful stag was especially striking.
and another one in the back!
okay, as you can see, there were three striking stags xD
this sheep really posed for this photo :)
looking very pensive!
i never can't stop myself from taking stork photographs. there's something so beautiful and elegant about them.
ravens gathering for the evening.
i also got a new phone! this is my first smartphone ever, and it actually feels great. but it's definitely a time consumer, as i always feared it would be. a little goal of mine is that i won't spend too much time on it and still take in life around me as i did before the smartphone. i think i'm still succeeding. it's of course very nice to have something by your side if you have to look up something.
it's an lg g3.
in the middle of january the first snow of the year ( at least when it comes to my region ) was finally falling.
well, not everywhere, though.
but around goldsteintal it was!
first, it only was a thin layer of snow.
but as i was marching on, higher and higher, the snow amassed.
and eventually the sun went away, forecasting more snow.
and then i was in the middle of a tiny snow storm. well, i say tiny, it actually was only a mikroscopic storm, not to say it was a sprinkle.
and things were perfectly sugared!
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