ghost of nature.

bird flying high at the former finance ministry in wiesbaden. after our vacation in the vosges mountains i was returning back to germany and wiesbaden to warmer temperatures and a little more advanced spring season. since i still love to walk through this city from time to time to check on my favourite parts of it, i did that pretty soon after i returned. sometimes i discover things that i previously overlooked or that i found a new appreciation for and also like to check whether anything changed, as a city is always bound to have all kinds of changes, right? a new building gets finished, someone made a new mural somewhere, new interesting shops got opened, you know the drill. there's always something to discover, and if not, than at least something old to appreciate again. or to find new perspectives that lead to a different approach of capturing them. i don't understand people who are bored with their city, especially if it's one that has over 200.000 inhabitan...

sun illuminating mossy branches. on our last day in france we headed out to find the voie verte des hautes-vosges , a hiking trail that is based on two former railway tracks. it's currently about 53 kilometers long, and still not finished, as the planners want to turn it into a circuit eventually, beginning and ending in bussang. the trail links various vosgiennes cities and villages with each other, creating a network that unites them all. it basically leads through the valleys of the rivers moselle & moselotte , which both have their sources in the region. we embarked on the trail in fresse-sur-moselle , which is a few kilometers away from ramonchamp, the twin city of my hometown. naturally this means that ramonchamp is also part of the green lane, but we decided against heading into that direction and voted for a 9 km hike towards the starting point, bussang. we also headed back those 9 km eventually, and let me tell you, we knew by the end of the day what we mana...