november '17: moody november colours.

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 stumbled upon the most beautiful kitten of the whole area. and she immediately loved me ;O;

proof of some real kitten love. we snuggled quite a bit before i tore myself away from her. it was way too hard to say goodbye ^^; ❤🐱

this little house was always rented out, but these days no one lives here anymore. which makes me saaaad. with a little bit of effort this could be a really cute abode.

some more late roses. november roses are my favourite roses - as they provide colourful dots in an otherwise rather bleak environment ( except for the autumn foliage of the trees ).

the soil of my village, almost black, very clay-like & dense. it's good earth.

some wild scene in a little wooden patch near my home.

and thus ends the recollection of november 2017.

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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