april: kammerforst.

kammerforst is a forest area of hohe schrecke, a ridge of hills located on the northern rim of the thuringian basin.

my mother recommended this place to me, as she had already ventured out there with my dad before a few times. we went there on a late afternoon just to get out of the house and get our heads free.

i did a lot of activities with my mother that week because my father had to work most of the time. we had a really good time and talked a lot and generally enjoyed each other's presence ( it's not always easy with her - we are very much alike, stubborn, paranoid & anxious - we had a lot of quarrels when i was a teenager, but these days i mostly get along great with her ). i remember that i never wanted to 'end up' like my mother as a teenager, i felt she was too negative and accusatory. now i look at that differently, because i'm actually very much alike. of course this probably means that she rubbed off on me, but then again, these days i feel that we bond much better over things, as i understand where she's coming from with her opinions. ( i still think my personality is a lot softer than hers, though, i'm melodramatic and kind of romantic and all that shebang - she's a lot tougher than i am )

anyway, the walk in those woods back then, it was really nice.

we found a dragon.

early canola field blossoms.

maple blossoms. they are the best green colour available in spring.

woodsy meadows.

my mother on the brink of endless green fields.

can we agree that spring is heart-opening? i lovelovelove that time of the year. and the exact opposite, autumn. those are the seasons that are dearest to my heart.

huge wood ant enjoying larch fruit.

shady illumination.

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

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 ...

ghost of nature.

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