a world covered in snow.

meadow views towards the aartaunus.

this walk i made with my neighbor lady from downstairs and it led us again to hennethal ( which increasingly is my favourite little neighbor village amongst all neighbor villages around us ). it was another gorgeous walk in the snow, and i gotta say, the snow gods from above were very kind this year to bless us with lots of it! while we now are in spring when this post will arrive, and i am ready to embrace this new season, it´s still nice to reminisce about winter some more.

snowed in pathways.

nearing a wooded area called happern.

view towards the newer part of strinz-trinitatis.

i can never say no to this panorama! from basbacher berg towards strinz, limbach & hühnerberg.

when we entered the happern woods every twig and every branch was covered with snow and made it look like we were in the middle of a spider web!

we made our way through a bit of a rough patch of woods and followed only tiny paths at first.

a little rocky area with a view down towards a lower sitting path.

sometimes a view opened up to the wetzelsberg.

once again the beautiful view on hennethal popped up in front of us, this time with a little more snow.

found a little fake snowflake!

a wall of logged wood flanked this road.

snow and rocks - perfect combination 😍

we only passed hennethal on the margins and continued our little walk into the direction of strinz-margarethä. of course always being very nice to any living animal is a must! so we stopped and said hi to this bovine fella.

a gentle soul ❤

snowed in meadows and dark blue woods - in the field sector of the bahnermühle. the bahnermühle was a mill that seems to have stood in the vicinity of these meadows. together with the obermühle, which still stands today, these two mills were formative for little hennethal as a village.

in the middle of the woods we found this strange wooden sculpture! it's still completely mysterious to me why such an exotic looking piece of art was randomly attached to a tree in the woods. no matter the reason, it was a fascinating find!

eventually we made it back on the road to strinz-trinitatis again.

sometimes you wouldn't think you were in the mountains, judging from these very flat fields.

i always love the skeletonal winter trees all covered in snow!

view on strinz again! one of my favourites coming from margarethä.

back in strinz we found a very big boy! we have a local herd of highland cows in the village and every so often you encounter them in various places. in autumn i met them the first time in a very hidden valley, and it was a gang of girls with their calves. this time i met the guys of the family ( though one i missed photographing 😅 ). they are quite impressive!

he looked quite like a little punk with his wild hair and nose piercing 😄

it was quite a nice walk with my neighbor and i hope we can sure repeat a walk together someday soon in spring!

may '20: seeking modernism.

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...

autumn impressions.

a selected assortment of autumn related things. ( or things that don't fit into a 'bigger picture' ) i will get around to posting my autumn vacation photos as well. my parents and me visited france a second time and i think it was almost as wonderful as the first time. but i'll get to that soon. moth in front of a vinyl shop window. i bet you know who's smile it is that strikes at you from the record. elvis! i went mushroom hunting again, this time with jasmin, the best mushroom finder i have :) but we didn't have a lot of time together this past autumn, i am very sad to admit this. she's one of our apprentices in the serving area in our market, but recently she's on exchange in a different outlet until january. but soon we'll have her back and our sporadic meetings will stop being sporadic. i think times like these make me realize that there's something worth living for. mostly my life is very grey and i'm so thankful to s...

of dragons & critters and yin & yang kittens.

my cat shadow is a very prolific cat and gives birth to baby sweethearts annually. we always let them grow up until they're old enough to be given away. growing up in a huge garden where they can roam around freely - isn't that the best way to grow up? it's always a joy to visit my parents and my cat in that time of the year. i have also included some pictures of a little rhine trip i made in the middle of may. and the occasional random ones that didn't fit somewhere. rhine wood dragon. sitting on the rhine beach enjoying the beautiful day. my stone collection of the day. ( i seriously have a lot of stones in my home. i love to collect them! ) the river rhine near eltville. random skull assortment ( shot this at the naxoshalle in frankfurt - i was there for a japanese movie festival ) rosey roses. they also smelled heavenly. raindrops on my window. chameleon tail. i adore spirals. baby kittens drinking momma m...

ghost of nature.

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