some pictures from a walk through my hometown back in may, when people from our french twin town visited us. ( it's always so strange to call it a hometown, since it's only a tiny village, but whatever )
gravestone on our local graveyard. i think i will try to return this november and shoot some more pictures, as it's actually a really beautiful cemetery. come to think of it, i really should do a walk again and document the whole village at some point.
random snake on a rock.
st. petri chapel. it was initially a much bigger church, standing right next to the former castle. they used some of the stones for the draw-bridge of the castle in the 30 years' war and then rebuilt it as a little chapel. i'm often very sad that the castle and the area around it didn't survive ( the russians tore it down when they occupied our village ). i would've loved it to grow up next to a castle, i'm pretty sure of that. we always spent our time on the overgrown castle moat, where there were still cellars around to hide in. it was often very adventurous. and the lake surrounding the moat was our skating pond in winter. ah, when i now think of my childhood, i'd say it was a rather good one.
chestnut tree leaves. i love how they glow in the spring sunlight.
agriculture outside the village.
this is the source area of a little creek. a tiny paradise.
better view of the still tiny creek.
blooming bushes. the best.
cherry blossoms. probably the most perfect spring blossoms.
wind park.
the area my hometown is situated in is called thuringian basin, and it's basically a rather flat depression with soft hills. it has always been rather fertile and was therefore an agriculturally used region.
our little group of wanderers.
this girl was so cute. she danced and sang and followed me all the time and told me stories and asked me to tell stories, too. she was simply delightful. she's one of the daughters of the village priest. sometimes, when i'm in a good mood, i tend to think about a possible future for me as a mother, and kids like her actually could be a reason i make up my mind about it. but then again, most of the time i don't see myself as a mother at all, even though kids do seem to like me a lot, which is always so very weird to me. in the end, though, i can't be a mother without a father, right? and this proves to be the most difficult thing for me, as i simply have no luck with guys. not that i had a lot to choose from ( ha, don't get me started about that, i've been single for over 10 years now ), but it just seems that i'm not attractive to most guys at all. well, what can you do? i'm better off without responsibilites anyway, since i'm a horrible caregiver.
canola fields! such eye-candy.
and i leave you with a yellow colour explosion.
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