Auswanderer Quatsch

The color leaves can take is simply magical. This weekend, we went for a walk/hike in the Frankische Schweiz (actually it might be already the Oberpfalz… but that does not really matter) to admire the splendid colors of the countryside in this season. As you can see we were not successful at all :]

About 40 min driving from home, we finally parked in the middle of nowhere, in search for the beginning of the trail. After successfully not finding it, we decided to head straight into the tree line and head for another section of the trail that should be higher up and easier to find. After crossing some fields and electrified fences, we finally reached the woods where the early sun peaking through the trees  made a plain magical atmosphere…

The leaves cracking under our shoes, the silence of winter, no car passing by, no other hiker (there is a lake nearby so all the people tend to gather there and avoid the surrounding hills). Just plain nature. What a blast.

The hike was maybe 2 hour long ; barely more ; but going up and down, over gravel roads and pathways, wood trails and fields… a variety of landscapes bathed in red tones.

This weekend marked also the first signs of frost and this morning we woke up to a nice and cozy -5°C. During the hike, all the shadowy places still hidden from the sun were still frosty and the zones warming up were displaying a very light fog that created some sort of surrealistic ambiance.

The last part of the hike, we decided to head directly into the woods and avoid a part of the trail that would be following a road. In this last wonderful part of the hike, we crossed ways with 5 deers… probably also enjoying a Sunday hike.

Some seasonal details…

I’m looking forward to next weekend :]

Yesterday, on June 2nd, I took the 150th picture of my 365 project… I still have a pretty long way to go, but it’s kind of an achievement already. There’s been ups and downs, good days and bad days. Days when I was happy to take a picture, days where I took one because I should. Days when I let the creative part in me speak and days when I took what I could for the sake of it. There’s even a couple days when I totally forgot to take a picture but had one emergency-very-general-ups-I-forgot-one in my camera exactly for that purpose… All in all it is a good start. I find in there exactly what I was searching for: I look at all those pictures and remember where I was, what I did, what it was like during those first 5 months of 2011. And that’s the most important for me.

So how do you like it? Do you have any suggestions or comments?

… or shall we keep her longer locked in the jar ; just to enjoy her radiance a little bit longer?

… and keep your head down!

I don’t really do resolutions for new year, but since the counter got back to “one” anyway, I decided to give a try… till I get fed up, pretend I don’t have time for such bul***it and try to hide it behind some more Agile stuff… or a very substantial silence that I only saw perfectly executed once… by Ghusse :]

So here are 1, 2 and 3.

{1} Regensburg was freaking cold and way too bright for my first of January headache.

{2} On this very little slope, riding my tiny sledge, I felt like a kid for an instant, I felt back in times that I know only from yellowish pictures and stories.

{3} First day at work, I brought some sweets with me… and there started the pâte-de-fruits killing spree.

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