april '17: signs of life.

johannes maaß elementary school. this new building stems from 2012, and basically is the showcase for the whole school ( that has more buildings, mostly 50ies concrete structures. ) it's really photogenic right?

walking through the wiesbaden neighborhoods in spring is always an eye-opening thing to do. when trees start developing green leaves & budding beautiful blossoms it's like life suddenly wakes up in front of your eyes again, and strangely, your heart warms up and your mind stops to feel disheveled & closed up. there's some kind of joy rising up inside you, where before there was the coldness of winter & a whole lot of numbness in your feelings. i told you before, spring & autumn are my favourite seasons, as they are the most colourful ones to me. those seasons provide this certain kind of colour explosions that i truly love, especially when before there was just grey skies & desolate landscapes ( in spring ) or hot & humid cruelty that invades the mind with fog & headaches ( in autumn ). it's like i perceive life for what it is again, like i realize that life is happening and it's beautiful, despite the constant struggles throughout the year. it always manages to slow me down & focussing my view onto the things that are in front of me. it makes life more bearable.

my little walk in early april lead me through nerotalpark, a beautiful little park surrounded by old villas. on one end of the park you can find our old mountainrail car leading up to the neroberg, the town's landmark mountain & on the other end you dip into the busy life of the inner city again. it is one of my favourite neighborhoods in the whole city.

pink cherry blossoms. those are surely the most majestic sight every spring.

when in past years my eyes never took interest in newer buildings ( except if they were extraordinarily prominent ), these days i love looking for & stumbling over modern architecture. this one is quite an interesting one, unfortunately i couldn't find any information on it.

da steht ein pferd auf dem flur. uhm, a balcony, in this case. ( transl.: there is a horse in the corridor - it's an old german schlager song, just in case you want to check out the link - beware, it might be traumatic ).

beautiful sky blue art nouveau building built by carl krell in 1904.

i love the stylized owl emblem.

and for sure the window details.

magnolia trees in full bloom. what a sight!

the mountainrail car nerobergbahn descending from the neroberg. it's a technical monument - a funicular using water propulsion. 

i didn't make my way up to the neroberg, though, instead i walked back into the city through the nerotalpark. daffodils guided my way.

taking photos of tiny blossoms is something i enjoy really much. and i really like the delicate petals of the cuckoo flowers.

a little creek running through the park, called schwarzbach.

i don't know which tree belongs to these blossoms, but it was like a white cloud above my head. simply lovely.

especially when the sun shone through the branches, the blossoms lit up in the purest white imaginable.

and this is what the tree looks like from afar. stunning. also, the birds were twittering bright & lovely songs!

the great forget-me-not or heartleaf.

inside nerotalpark you can find this little deer sculpture walking on a little pond. i love this little gem!

admiring the abundance of colours.

tiny brightly-coloured japanese maple leaves. their delicate features are such a blast. and this colour! so absolutely fresh & young!

contrasting against indeciduous dark green of conifers.

i can never get enough of the pink cherry trees.

deep pink apple tree blossoms.

the sun began to hide again and i made my way back home. passed by those little critters on a nearby schoolyard.

another sculptural something on that yard.

the whole area is actually pretty historic, but construction activities even happen here ( of course old building need to go through renovations as well. )

cultural center tattersall. this was once a former riding hall, but now is a place where concerts, shows, festivities take place. the building was erected in 1905 by albert wolff.

i ended my spring walk up on the schulberg, a hill in the middle of wiesbaden. you can have the best view up here onto the old core of the city, and even look as far as to south-east wiesbaden. the best time to climb the schulberg is in winter, though. then, no green trees are obscuring the view down on the city. always worth it! here you can see the neo-gothic marktkirche ( market church ).