ghost of nature.

 with a very belated playlist i return to posting my monthly music documentations. i have to admit, that assembling these to be some coherent pleasures to listen to, takes a lot of work, and i didn't feel much like putting that effort into it the last couple of months. but recently i realized that i miss creating these, because the process also helped me to immerse myself in the music and actually listening more deeply again. with not creating my playlists anymore, the music i listened to over the course of a month, started to fade away into the distance, and my life was more soundless. which is a shame, because i have always loved music and finding myself in it. music for me is an essential tool to process things in my life, to understand situations or just simply my own existence and how i view the world. and that kind of got lost as soon as i stopped focussing on intentionally listening to melodies for the purpose of playlist creation. anyway, here's a playlist from the mont...

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...