forest portal.
october started out beautifully with sunny days which made the magic of autumn unfold in its most fascinating ways. on the first of october i made a walk near the tiny village of watzhahn ( it's so tiny it doesn't even have a website ;) ). it's a very rural area in the taunus mountains, perfect for visitors like me who want to walk on paths that are not overcrowded with heaps of annoying human beings. most of the time you are rather untouched by civilization, only now and then you pass by other people who had the same idea of taking a stroll on a sunny october morning. you greet friendly, and they sometimes return the greeting ( other times they look at you like an alien is about to abduct them ), but it's not as stressful as when you encounter them in a more urban space, trying to make way for their hectic bodies so they can inhabit the space they claim to own. in nature you have the space to breathe and it's always a good reminder to not forget that those spaces exist, especially when you've been stuck in the city for days or weeks. sometimes you just gotta move your ass out of all the urbanity surrounding you in order to find some sense of calmness & tranquility and even more important, out of the narrow streets that are your own mind. days in nature remind me that my brain is still capable of finding magic in the world, a special kind of magic that can only be unfurled with reconnecting to nature.
i stumbled upon a makeshift garden/witch yard right at the beginning of my little walk.
it was fenced in with twigs and logs and it felt like a whimsical fairy ground.
the view from the little garden onto taunusstein in the back, which is actually not too far away from tiny watzhahn ( the village is a district of the city ).
i found little carnations inside the garden.
and tiny coneflowers.
don't know for sure, but i think i also identified meadow sage.
another beautiful landscape shot.
parasol mushrooms were graceing my path as i moved onwards.
passing by horse meadows.
i sat down & watched the horses for a while. any landscape with horses is a tranquil one.
bellflower against taunus rocks.
another parasol. i could've probably foraged all those mushrooms and prepare them for dinner in the evening, but i felt like i needed to leave them intact. they looked so nice in their little natural settings.
strollers & riders amongst golden dots of foliage.
i came upon a dog later on, too, that first scared me, because he was suddenly standing behind me without making a sound. but we both seemed to realize we were not a threat to each other and each of us spent a little while giving & receiving cuddles.
horses!
have a horses themed patti smith song while you're at it. it's got nothing to do with the magic that are horses ( even though it has ), but anyways. it jumped into my mind while writing the word horses, so i figured it needed to be part of this entry.
but, yeah, horses were everywhere. i encountered a rider on my way back on a big beautiful black horse and i may or may not have fallen a bit for him in those little moments in which we made eye-contact, greeted each other, smiled and moved on. i stood still for a while, looking back and felt a sense of happiness running through me ( followed by an immediate pang of melancholy and sadness - as is always the case with me as soon as one realizes some things are just not meant to be ).
more golden splendor! oh, autumn, you know exactly how to please me.
soft hills.
tiny mushrooms were part of my walk, too!
i was really smitten with this rose coloured fungus.
there were more of them around. the contrast against the brown leaves on the ground was a real eyecatcher.
fungi yellow on moss green - a triptych.
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