ghost of nature.

snow immersion. we finally made it to december, yay! i know, november was quite the month and i probably needed too much time for wrapping it up. but life continuously gets in the way, and when only posting like once in a week, it adds up. anyway, december's going to be handled rather quickly, i bundled up all the photos i shot in that last month of 2017 and will post it in one go! somehow i end up never really shooting much in december - and winter in general - maybe because i'm not a big winter lover. also, it is the most stressful time of the year for me ( probably for everybody in the world lol ) and it's also often too cold and too grey to actually go out and see something ( unless it snows or you are visiting places in the dark, because that seems worthwhile enough for me to take photos of :P ).  just like that day in early december when i visited my parents on a short whim and my mom and i ventured out to the unstrut river for a little walk in the snow. it...

on fire. i spent a last day at my parent's place before i headed back to wiesbaden and i used this day to capture some more autumnal photos. there's nothing much to add this time, so... moving on! my parents have a few diverse japanese maple trees inside their garden and it's always such a treat to look at them in autumn. they seriously have the best foliage. pink & orange magnificience. this absolutely soothes my mind. rust & fire on our little japanese cherry tree. the last hollyhocks. november roses. ivy & some thick-leaved ground cover with a nice coloration. we made a little walk around the village and met some chickens. the chickens lived in a really cool place near the school yard - some kids made a mural on their living room walls :) into the direction of the old dairy farm ( now kindergarten ). this alley is one of my favourite lanes in my home village. and as faith had it, i stumb...