ghost of nature.

rheinmain congress center stairs. spring season is always very special to me, when nature is awakening after months of grey drought ( unless there was snow and sun :P ) and the light has that special hint of freshness to it. by the time the bushes and trees start blossoming and the verdant greens are arriving it feels like life is about to burst open, exploding into a whirlwind of colours that tickle the eye nerves. pair this lush rebirth of nature with the architectural fabric that wiesbaden displays and you got a really awesome recipe for explorations through the city! the loading area of the rheinmain congress center . this complex still was fairly fresh to me back then ( having been opened just in 2018 ). it's a very clean-cut building, but if you look closer, the details of the building materials are astoundingly beautiful ( for example, i really love the facade stone slabs that have a really great structure ). also, there's lots of interesting perspectives to be found, in...

admiring the early blossoms of the cherry plum. the alperstedter ried is a nature reserve very close to my home village in thuringia, it is a lowland perfusion fen that almost dried out to to extensive water managing and mining endeavours ( and also housing construction - i think there's a former military area around here as well ). in the past 40 years a lot of effort was put into restoring this fen and today you can look at a beautiful wild landscape again, where the marsh areas have returned to and the fen slowly re-seizes its former expansion. with the help of animal conservationists such as 'harzer rotvieh', water buffalos & exmoor ponies, the protected landscape slowly returns to its former state - that of a very important lowland fen which grows rare plants, and gives home again to tiny insect critters and special bird species that were believed to being extinct in this area. the whole area covers an expanse of 115 hectares and is fenced in, to make sure that th...