ghost of nature.

summer is actually not my most treasured season. it's also not my most hated one. in recent years i started to detest winter a little more, but only because it's getting dark so early and the days are often grey, which messes up my already bad mood swings even more. summer comes right after winter. it's too hot, i am too sweaty, i get headaches a lot. but summer also has nice sides to it. sun's there, the days are long, everything blooms and is colourful, thunderstorms appear more often ( i'm such a sucker for thunderstorms ). even in those times when i overcome my anxiety to go to public places like swimming pools, i often find myself enjoying it. when i was little i was always the first one in the water, my parents had to run after me so i didn't drown ( i learned swimming on my own at the age of 5 because of that - i just jumped into the water and paddled my way through it :D ). i loved swimming and i loved water. those things didn't change, even though ...

various pictures from several walks in the woods of the taunus mountains and around  johannisberg . not much to add here this time. urban forest in eltville. sheep in the wood meadows. cute bug with iridescent elements. the white dot. i visited this well in  march  already, and then went there again with my parents while they were on visit. johannisberg vineyards. ruinous hut formerly used for the grape harvest. view into the rhine valley. schwarzenstein castle . beuerbacher see . this little lake near beuerbach was a tiny gem on an otherwise quite calm walk.  probably around this time my camera decided to eat quite a lot of photos, which i only discovered a few months later, by the time i looked through my vacation pictures from june. i was able to recover some pictures, but a lot are permanently lost. that's why the coming photosets will probably be pretty incomplete.

the hessenpark near neu-anspach is an outdoor museum par excellence. it's basically a huge medieval village with lots of different timber-framed houses and buildings that once stood in all kinds of places in hessia, but have been rebuilt for preservational and educational reasons. in every house there is an exhibition about a specific subject that relates to the state of hessia, for example an exhibit about world war two refugees in hessia,  or the history of tourism in this state, or about the tradition of glass-blowers. and many many more things! we didn't see everything while we were there, the biggest reason for that was the live play that was going on that day. it was a play about hessian soldiers returning from the american war of independance, finding that life without them proceeded in all kinds of different ways that were not always in their favour and realizing that the once so familiar environment suddenly turned into one of distrust and anger and disillusion. it w...