My golden obsession.

Hello and good day!  This post will mostly contain more or less more shapes and shades of yellow that my autumn has brought me.  I know the last post was about yellow but I don't care.  I'm loving yellow right now and according to the "Colour Wheel Pro", yellow is "associated with joy, happiness, intellect and energy".  See...JOY!  HAPPINESS!  ENERGY!!!  I feel the need to post as many yellow posts, in order to save up some yellow feeling, that I can then whip out again on the grey days that await.  Autumn has already shown enough of its grey side this past week, here's to hoping yellow beats grey.

- My beloved cycle ride up to Tempelhof on a sunny Sunday morning showing off all of its sparkle.  (no instagram filter, by the way)

- Early morning, on the way to work shot through the train window.  Greens, yellows and oranges.

- Same day.  Different time.  Different side of the train on my way home from work.  Greens, yellows and oranges.

- Some slightly yellowy lime greens walking along the canal today.

-  Sparrows bathing in the puddles left by the days of grey weather and rain.

- A blackbird having a puddle bath!  Today was the day of puddle baths!

- Squinting up into the sun, hoping that it will keep shining to supply me with the Vitamin D that I need to survive the winter.

Thanks for reading, take care and keep your eyes opened to really soak up the colours that are happening now.  I'm sounding so buddhist right now oh yeah.  Really enjoy the NOW!

..love..

A whole lot of yellow.

Welcome, Autumn!  You are here once again and bring with you warm sunshine, blue skies and lots of yellows all around.  Bright yellow, brown yellow, red yellow, green yellow, dark yellow.  Lots and lots of yellows.  Yellow, yellow, YELLOW!  Here are some pictures of my autumn.

- Photo of the Refugee Welcome Picnic at Tempelhof.  The weather was superb and you could feel all the love on the field.

- We went on a 3 hour walk through Grunewald after I finished school one day.  It was magical.  I even jumped into Teufelssee for one last time in 2015.  I froze my nuggets off.

- Is this an oil beetle?  There were so many of these in Grunewald.

- A red dragonfly at the Ökowerk in the Grunewald.  Look, you can't even see its wings, that's how delicate they are.

- Here's a shot taken in the S-bahn with my colourful yellow findings from the Grunewald!  TOTALLY YELLOW!  Oh I LOVE this photo.  These leaves look like they've been dipped into the sun!

- This one is a photo I took at the bridge looking over Klub der Visionäre.  I love a good canoe!

- Last but not least is a photo that I probably shouldn't have taken, seeing as I was riding my bike down a hill at the time.  I couldn't help myself though, there's yellows involved and even though it's blurry, I like it.

There it is.  The first autumn post.

I hope it continues as yellow as it began!

Thanks for reading.

..love..

The forest and the ladybug apocalypse.

It's been a wonderfully outdoorsy weekend!  Lots of walks and really feeling the autumn right now.  Not much has happened with my plants at the moment.  The seasonals are on their way out and my chili pepper plants are just growing along fine.  In fact I have discovered a little pepper on one of my serrano chili plants!  Photos to come soon!  But right now I just want to share some pictures of my weekend.

-  On Saturday, we got on a bus out to East Berlin.  We went to Müggelheim which is where the Müggelsee is.  We walked in an impressive forest, which from the top looks out over one of the lakes.  The day started out really foggy.  It was crisp but not that cold.  The colour pallet of the day was mainly brown, yellow and grey.  It was beautiful.  I know I have been totally overusing the word autumnal, but it was super autumnal.  That's the only way I can describe it.  Here's the view on the way up through the forest.  There is a downhill mountain biking course through it!  There were some guys mountain biking down the course.  They were pretty fast and were jumping off ramps and stuff.  I was impressed.

Once we had made it to the top of the "hill", this was the stunning view we had over the smaller Müggelsee.  (It's called the smaller lake although it is mahoosive!)

-  Sunday, the weather was completely the opposite to the weather on Saturday.  I woke up to the sun shining and a cloudless blue sky!  We went to the Hasenheide, which is a park in Neukölln just across from Templehof.  Over the course of the day it got really warm and people were sitting in the park topless!  Really crazy when you think that it's already the end of October!  There was one thing that was really bizarre about today...there were soooooo many ladybugs flying around EVERYWHERE!  Every minute there was one landing on me after another one had just flown off.  I wonder if this is a common thing for October and that just like there is that one flying ant day, where ALL the flying ants EVER come out, that there is also a flying ladybug day.  I really enjoyed the ladybugs' company though and I managed to take this really cool photo of one about to take flight!

And here is a photo of two ladybugs flying in the blue sky!  It just looks like there are two black dots in the air, but they are ladybugs!  I promise!

-  After the Hasenheide I continued my journey home and popped by the Comenius Garden which was buzzing with people enjoying the sun.  The trees were just über-vibrant and full of colour!

Anyway, it was a perfect day for soaking up some autumn sun.  The paths were covered in crispy orange and yellow leaves and accompanied by the leaf crunching sound of my feet, it was just glorious.
Thanks for reading and I hope you all have had similar autumnal experiences!
..love..

Seasonal changes.

I'd like to welcome autumn to da house!!  The skies are blue, the sun is shining, and the wind is blowing!  With this change my bedroom gardening season is rearing to end for my summer plants.

- I still have some tomatoes that are staying strong with fruits ripening up.  Some of the tomato plants would look really really naked if it wasn't for a couple of wilting leaves and a few ripening tomatoes.  But that is all part of its course, plants grow, ripen and die to make space for next season's plants.  Here are some tomatoes I harvested a couple of days ago.  Kumato (top left), cherry (top and bottom right) and tiger stripe (bottom left).

- There are a couple of plants that are not rearing to an end.  Those are my serrano chili plants.  One is even starting to flower and everyone knows what that means!!!  Potential chili peppers!!!!

- Even my kohlrabi's are still holding on!  They didn't end up growing into actual kohlrabi's.  I think it's because I haven't put them in a pot big enough.  They are in a hanging basket and the stems are a beautiful foggy purple colour, and that's why I won't get rid of them...because they are pretty!

- Here is a distant view of my garden window.  You can see I have significantly less plants.  One of the reasons gardening is so wonderful is that you really can see and feel the seasons changing with your fingers if you don't otherwise. 

- For a finishing touch, here's a picture of me in my favourite place.  Of course you know it...Tempelhof!  A couple of weeks ago there were hay bails all over the field.  They had stacked some of them into pyramids, which we used as jumping platforms!!!  It was so much fun at the time...until I got home and my whole body was an itchy mess!!

Anyways, thanks for reading...and I wish you all the very best of the start of autumn.

Autumnal ..love..