march: city walk & finding stream wells.

from time to time i set out to rediscover the town i am living in - wiesbaden. and it's sometimes a very strange thing as i am still finding places that i haven't been to yet and still discover details in this city that i haven't found before. wiesbaden is not huge, it only has around 275.000 inhabitants and the it's rather rural, actually, with many districts being in the countryside. still, it is huge enough for me, and i wouldn't want to live in a bigger city. i like it when a city is walkable and overseeable, big cities like frankfurt, berlin or cologne are nice to visit once in a while, but they are crushing me if i stay there longer than necessary. wiesbaden is the perfect inbetween actually, it's not too small but also not too big and it's in a region that is full of beautiful nature areas, which is what i actually adore the most. if i had to live in a less green city, it'd be a huge turmoil to my well-being. alas, i still hope to someday move out of the city and back out to the country-side, as i have discovered i am the happiest in remote places with direct access to nature, without having to take the car everytime to set out. ( don't get me wrong, i LOVE driving. i sometimes feel very guilty, though, because it makes me a gas guzzler pretty much '_'. i still hope that some guy or chick outside finally invents an eco-friendly car that i don't have to pay thousands of euros for, but that doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar as of yet - and you know, it should by now! ) anyway, ranting aside, here are some pictures i took on a little walk through wiesbaden.

art deco entry! wiesbaden is full of art deco and art nouveau architecture ( that's because most of the city has been build around the turn of the 19th century into the 20th - as it boomed because the high society discovered the spa qualities of wiesbaden. ) it's really perfect for me, because i love that era too much and want to basically go back in time to live there - minus the society standards of the olde times, though )

i passed by a former labour men district - that's what the statue indicates! and indeed you can always recognize those neighborhoods instantly, because they were build in a uniform fashion.

i also peeked into beautiful spring gardens!

fluffly catkins!

i love how some trees look snow-covered with their white blooming petals.

a little rain front was coming towards us, so i decided to walk back into the city. this is on the outskirts of the northwest of wiesbaden. you can see the foothills of the taunus mountain range.

domus dei est et porta coeli - god's house and the gate to heaven. the minimal portal of st elisabeth.

i suspect this woman might be st elisabeth ;)

old window display of a coiffeur. i especially love the term 'new age perms' :)

on a different day i made my way out to eltville again, as i discovered that the city of eltville owns an urban forest. i thought that there might be new hiking routes to explore so off i went. it was a good decision, as i've been to that place twice now and plan to return again, because it's seriously a beautiful area, with fish ponds, narrow woods, wells and a bavarian restaurant to come back to, to fill your hungry belly.

i went there on a rainy day and the moss everywhere was growing in such lush colours!

little bridge over a tiny creek.

mossy benches.

hubertus well.

this looks like a fairy place. don't you think?

this well is called 'salzquelle' ( salt well ) and i took a sip and it surely tasted salty! i especially liked the green algaes on the well pond, it made it look like a magic green brew.

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.

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 ...

the america chronicles '22: austin I - city of the violet crown.

sighted on the way to austin: the texas colorado river . but beware, this is not the iconic colorado river ( 2.334 km long ) that has its source in the rocky mountains and confluences in the gulf of california, flowing through the grand canyon and other magnificent landscapes along the way, but this is texas' very own colorado river with a length of 1.387 km starting in the llano estacado plains in northwestern texas, and eventually ending up in the gulf of mexico at matagorda bay . why there are two colorado rivers in the US, i really don't know 😅 my guess is, that they were named by two people in different times, not knowing of the other's colorado river discovery. we'll meet the texas colorado river again in austin, so i will probably bestow more information on you eventually ;D a random road squirrel, also found on the way to austin. austin is about 187 miles ( 300 km ) away from baytown and is situated west from there in central texas. it sits at the foot of th...

ghost of nature.

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