ghost of nature.

music for uprise, downfall and acceptance. i'm restarting posting my monthly music mixes on here again. this year i'm saying goodbye to 8tracks and transitioned to spotify, which is easier to handle for me and is also not on a wishy-washy thin line when it comes to music rights and laws. i've been really disappointed with 8tracks lately, so there you go. new year, new try, new music. enjoy.

i live in the inner city of wiesbaden which is actually pretty convenient, because i have a lot of the most important facilities and main attractions just around the corner. in the past i didn't care so much about this fact, because i am actually the most lazy couch potato ever and only venture out of my flat when i crave nature ( or a breather from hiding too long inside my four walls ). since i started getting more interested in capturing my city's architecture , though, i've been out on the streets more, always looking out for interesting details, or overlooked buildings. so let's have a few more glances at what my city looks like apart from the wilhelminian townhouses i captured mostly in the past. the dern'sche höfe were realized a few years ago ( i believe it was 2011? ) by seidl und partner . it's a pretty interesting building, especially when you look into the details. for example, i like the tilted roof with the window opening at the side. th...

lorch is a little town near the rhine gorge world heritage site - a beautiful area with lots of vineyards and wonderful views onto the rhine and the valley it flows through. the town itself is very old, it was first mentioned in 1085, but was already populated before that by the romans. cute little alleys and timber-framed houses are literally everywhere you look and it all spreads a very medieval charm... even today! i love visiting the upper middle rhine valley exactly because of that: the towns and villages are so lovely and enchanting. in the tiny alleyways of lorch. that's st. martin's parish church in the back, which basically overlooks the whole city. part of the church's plateau. looking down onto the river. the steles are depicting jesus' ordeal. those steles are very common in the rheingau region and they always surround the church. the sky was rather gloomy when i arrived there but it brightened up later on. i don't mind, tho...