suffused with light - in the wiesbaden woods.
in my all-time favourite month, october, we will find ourselves inside the wiesbaden woods again. and since i really have used all possible words of my love of autumn in past posts of mine, why don't we just jump right in and enjoy even more mushrooms and autumnal woods pictures? further down the road i will take you on a short trip we had through the kohrener land ( a region in saxonia ), on which we mainly ate the whole day and only saw bits and pieces of the region itself 😅. i quite liked what we saw there, though, and hopefully one day my parents and i will return and explore it on our terms again, with more discovering and less eating involved ;P
above the treetops, looking down on wiesbaden and the rhein-main region. i roamed around in the woods of the 'platte' plateau - a part of the wiesbaden hochtaunus i frequent quite often in autumn as i have often found plenty of mushrooms there.
it had been a rainy morning, but when i arrived, the sun was shining happily and made plants and trees glisten in her light. it was so lovely! the rain drops on these common toadflax blossoms made it look so fresh and juicy!
i was obsessed with all the raindrops looking like pearls of glass 💧
a ladybug crawled over a dry leaf and seemed to enjoy the sunshine, too!
shimmering grassland.
the fly agarics also were super happy to grow in moist, mossy soils!
wondering if the creature that nibbled on these baby amanitas ended up having any hallucinations 😶
a shy one peeking out underneath young conifers.
forest glade.
teeny-tiny iodine bonnets!
roaming around in a forsaken stone quarry. here i often find slippery jacks or larch boletes.
strange growth on this spindly tree.
larch needles. it was not yet time for them to change their colours.
i found this little rock birdie sitting on a bench and i dared to take it with me, even though i am pretty sure it was part of a forest project. you can actually find painted rocks time and time again in the woods and often they were laid out to just delighten wanderers and hikers, and are not supposed to get taken home. but like i said, i couldn't resist. finding these gems to me is like finding a perfect souvenir 😅
on to the kohrener land pictures.
i have to preface this with a few words of why we went there. my parents are both part in some music groups, my dad sings in a men's choir, my mom is part of an organ pipe orchestra ( where they really blow on some disassembled church organ pipes and through the talent and knowledge and incredible ability of their conductor, create short little melodies, mainly reproducing already well-known classical pieces and oldies ). every year, both those groups go on a field trip somewhere, mostly on day trips, sometimes it takes place over a whole weekend. they basically take the money they collected on concerts and other happenings and fund this little trip with that.
so this trip to the kohrener land, it was one of those trips. many times they decide to fill the day with lots of activities, going to museums, city-tours, culinary delights etc. on this trip we went to kohren-sahlis, a small potter's town in saxonia and our final destination was a little lake called 'lindenteich', where a restaurant was situated with a tiny mill attached to it. there we would first have a look at the mill museum, then eat a hearty lunch, then would go on a roundtrip via minibus to get an overview over the town and get to know one of the last pottery manufactures until we would finally end that day trip with coffee and cake, before driving home again. so basically, we didn't see that much, but ate a lot! of course the minibus tour showed us quite a bit, but unfortunately i was unable to get good pictures, the windows of that little bus were so full of scratches that everything would've turned out awful ( and on top of that, my camera's batteries died at the end 😂 ) that's why i would really like to return one day and explore everything afoot, but right now, we don't really have any steadfast plans. maybe when i visit my parents in a few weeks? need to keep it at the back of my mind.
here are some of the very few impressions i could photograph on this trip.
indian summer spider web!
restaurant lindenvorwerk. it is a very popular excursion destination, seemingly since over 175 years. here we had our meals. you can get your normal german fare here, like sauerbraten, potato dumplings & red cabbage, or würzfleisch, the GDR's answer to the normal german ragout fin dish.
right next to the restaurant is the lindigtmühle - a very old four-sided farmyard with a water mill attached. the age of this farmyard can't be determined anymore, fact is, that it seems to have existed even before the 1500s. for a long time it was turning into ruins, but after the 'wende' ( the peaceful revolution ) it was finally renovated and restored in the 1990ies. it is a little museum now, where you can also buy some of the freshly baked breads they create here.
beautiful plant growth in the courtyard of the building! autumnal ( pink! ) asters were shining brightly amidst all the still very green farns growing directly next to the water wheel.
the water wheel. it was proudly run by the grandson of the owner, the boy in the back :)
inside the mill lots of specific working equipments were exhibited, the green machine is some sort of a scale.
loved this super old map of the kohrener land region!
view outside through a very dirty window onto a dam that protects the mill from possible floods of the lindenteich. a few minutes later a horse carriage passed by and i wish i had captured that scene, to be honest! it felt so old-timey!
this carved head is a so-called 'mehlspucker' ( flour spewer ). must look very amazing when in action😂
i have no fucking clue about mills and how they work, though i am pretty sure the dude who showed us around, explained it. unfortunately i can't remember a single thing 😅 )
outside again, a different angle.
inside the tenement, which was very small and dusky, but still very cute.
loved this access balcony 😍
inside the kitchen.
gorgeous set-up 😍
i love these old kitchens, they feel so cozy!
the lindenteich. it was a gloriously sunny day and the lake was gorgeous in the autumn light!
in summer you can loan some pedal and paddle boats and make a round or two over the lake.
shiny, shiny waters.
it was at this time that we went on our minibus trip around kohren-sahlis and my camera decided to not work for a while ( and i opted against trying some more, since the windows were all scratched up, lol ). i got it re-activated for two last pictures that i shot inside the pottery manufacture - the töpferhaus arnold. it was very interesting to see how they created their earthenware and to see what is needed to manufacture it! i bought a little vessel for minced meat in pig form ( which i have never used as such, but as a depository for trinkets ;P ).
inside the manufacture - these pots and cats were about to get killned. the specialty of this particular manufacture are blue & white kitchenware, they are called 'kohrener blau-weiß'. while this is quite pretty i was more into another style they created: the light & shadow design. i am a sucker for pottery, especially the stuff that looks really handmade and organic and not like it was created on an assembly line. these were definitely unique and very original to the region!
an empty killn.
to properly end this post, have some mobile pictures of the shop!
not the light & shadow ware, but equally pretty!
and some of the blue-white ware! why i haven't taken any photos of the light & shadows stuff, i can't even explain! shame on me, because i loved that the most 😂
and here's the pig vessel i bought!
the pretty effects of the light & shadow line!
and this is the end of the first october 2019 installment, what do you think, will i be able to finish 2019 in 2021?
stay curious 😂
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