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august '17: lonesome woodwalks & through the cousin's eye.

wild little kesselbach. my cousin from berlin came to visit me at the very end of august. i have a little ambivalent connection to him, actually. which means i don't really know how to feel about him (but to be very honest, i never really know how to feel about people in general). he's a good person, i think, but he makes me quite uncomfortable at times. maybe because he wants to know so many things about my life. i'm often very secretive, because i never have anything good to report. also, he's quite an optimist, whereas i am such a pessimist, and the clash is always ... strange. but in the end... i do like him. kind of. sometimes he feels a tad bit too inquiring.  he came with good news, though, mainly that he was in a relationship again! which made me feel quite glad, since for the past 2 years he had been very mopey about it. i always feel very intimidated by this. i can't give any good advice on how to overcome a broken heart, other than to just get ...

august '17: apothecary garden & early mushroom hunts.

inside the garden. the  apothecary garden  is a place i've never visited before the day i made my way there. it's a little bit of a walk ( it's situated outside the inner city core in a little valley called aukammtal ). i've made it there via car, because it was too hot outside to walk for a longer amount of time. yeah, i don't do well with heat. but it was one of those days where i simply had to leave my flat because otherwise it would've definitely messed with my brain. and even though it was damn hot, i really enjoyed visiting this little place of greenery. i hope to revisit in spring this year, when more plants are blooming and everything looks less bare ( i recently made a walk through the city that lead me past the garden & it was really dull & dismal, i almost didn't recognize it! ) winter sure changes a place, especially when there's a lot of plants involved. well, the garden is full of plants & herbs that have some kind of...