when autumn rolls around my heart starts to beat in a different rhythm than usual. it prepares itself for cocooning and nostalgia and the dark season of winter. it's sick of the hot & humid days of summer and aches for the warm colours of autumnal transit. summer often makes me want to stay at home, because i can't stand the high temperatures. so when autumn finally makes its introduction it's time for me to explore again, roam through the woods and cities of my region and simply enjoy the outside world before retreating back to my little flat for winter season ( another time i rarely like to leave my four walls, because it's too cold & dire :P ) my heart just cries out for this particular season, my brain sucks in the colour explosions of dying nature, not wanting it all to end. if i could choose my very own year cycle it would consist of only spring & autumn. yes, i know summer & winter are important aspects of the cycle and necessary for my favourite seasons to have maximum impact, but really, can we just narrow it down to one month each? shouldn't that totally suffice for nature to produce new green leaves & lush flowers or die in the most beautiful ways? a girl can dream, right?
adult fly agaric.
baby fly agaric.
i love photographing mushrooms, so satisfying. they are like architecture for nature. i always try to imagine what a beetle or ant must feel like running through surroundings like this. and then i want to turn myself into a beetle and experience it for myself :D it's such a different world.
love the delicately thin mushroom feet.
shyly showing their heads, risking to get nibbled on by snails and other tiny animals.
dead wood surely isn't dead at all! growth is even occuring in death.
yellow wood glory.
the woods i gallivanted around in these pictures can be found around frauenstein, a suburb of wiesbaden. i think it is my most favourite suburb of the whole city, because it's beautiful all year round. in spring the cherry plantations frolick with white blossoms, even in summer & winter it's worth it, because you can hide in the colder valleys or have wonderful views into the rheingau up on the peaks of the hills surrounding the village. i often think about moving there, but rarely do i see any free flats on listings :( i guess i need to keep looking.
acorn leaves as large as my head.
blackberry leaves really do have the best colour gradients when loosing their verdancy.
the cherry tree leaves bid you goodbye, too.
old mansion fences.
freiheit für flusskrebse - liberty for crawfish. whatever that means, haha, so absolutely random.
their heads look so soft and dense & velvety.
tree eats rock. finding things like this always makes me feel so happy, really. i don't know why.
i did another walk in a different neighbourhood, sonnenberg, trying to find a chapel.
you can find lots of old apple trees around here.
sonnenberg is situated at the foothill of the taunus mountains, so you get beautiful vistas like these :)
and little twigs growing out of seemingly dead wood.
oh, the silhouettes of bare trees. makes my heart go pitterpatter.
hydrophobic.
last remains of juicy bird food.
nothing beats the sunlight shining into the woods.
i finally found the little chapel! it was a little modern masterpiece. i didn't enter it at first, because there was a woman sitting inside it having a really loud conversation on the phone. stuff like this really is annoying and i decided to walk around the area and return later. fortunately that woman was gone then and i had the silence & tranquility i like when checking out religious sites.
the chapel is a little hidden thing near some orchard meadows and wins you over at first with its huge cor-ten steel cross. the chapel hall itself is a glass cube and inside you can find a bench and some parochial decoration elements. the acoustics in here were incredible. i could vividly imagine a single artist singing a few a capella songs.
the glass cube from outside, obviously.
loved the landscape architecture. especially with these bushes showing autumn attire.
the cross is supposed to be the cross of passion, a cross we bear every day. i think it being the heart of the whole structure showcases its importance. even for someone like me, who does not believe in god, this place invites you to contemplate over the woes & throes of life.
feather remnants of an unknown plant. really, i have no clue.
after my chapel visit i had a short walk around the neighbourhood. this house was one of the more interesting ones.
jesus christ
'light is'
redeemer - liberator
came in the flesh
'legislator and judge'
we have a unique guy living in the city who runs around everywhere and writes biblical slogans & verdicts on advertisement spaces. the city cannot do anything against it, because he's still too sane & in control of himself to properly push him off to a psychiatric clinic. so the whole city literally is plastered with his religious delusions, which i think is pretty entertaining at times. i happened to pass by his house and found out that the whole property was covered with his own writings. crazy shit, i know.
'i am the alpha & the omega, the god who is and was and who arises, the almighty. i was dead & see, i am alive into the ages of all ages & possess the keys of the death & of hades.'
& with these ominous last words we will transition into december.
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