Lots o' shots o' fog.

Happy New Year to you all.  It's coming 9 days late, but better late than never!  I hope 2016 treats you all well and that you surprise yourself this year.  Today I will be posting lots and lots of pictures of my beautiful surroundings in the Bavarian Forest at Christmas.  And as the Blog Title leads to believe, I will be posting lots o' shots o' fog!  Enjoy the last fog of 2015 and may the fog settle for 2016.  Enjoy.

- Some incredible blue skies were enjoyed this Christmas.

 - Logs looking neat with godly rays shining upon them.

- Great treetop silhouettes.  As you can see there was a lot of shining sun!

 

-  Since this is about Christmas, there has to be at least one kinda "gifty" picture.  Here's some Parmesan biscuits ready to get wrapped at my wrapping station.

- Winter walking with my bro.  We were trying to do an impression of the Michelangelo painting in the Sistine Chapel.  Can you see some resemblance?  Not really?  Me neither.  Got some good lighting though, bro.

 - You can see a little bit of the fog creeping in just over the grass line there.

 - My grandfather and brother walking into the fog...the question was...can we disappear in the fog?

- Ummm...no.

 - Full moon fog situation.  It was actually totally dark, but the moon was shining "bright like a diamond".

- Fog on another day.  We actually watched the fog "rolling" in with our very own eyes.  What a fog heavy holiday!

- Bit of a pink sky fog mountain situation.

-  So this isn't a photo of the Bavarian Forest...this is taken out of the bus window on my way back up north.  Some foggy vineyards in Franken.

 - Some more blurry vineyards.

 So anyway, that was a little view of some of my last days of 2015.  Hope you all had a great "slide" into the new year.  Stay safe, healthy and content.  Thanks for reading and see you all spoon.

..love..

First summer impressions.

Just last week, I took a trip to Munich and fields surrounding.  Mainly, I went to see my knee surgeon for a 5 month checkup.  But I definitely did more than just see my doctor.  There was lots and lots of lounging in the sun.  Continuous water dipping.  Walking.  Eating.  Swimming.  Although it was a short visit, it definitely felt like a mini-holiday that was filled with glorious summer colours and vibes.  Oh those summer vibes!

- Sunset over the fields outside Munich.

- Summer swimming.

- Wading in the stream with a bucket of rotten apples.

- Walking in water.

- A visit to the bees in the forest.

- Finally finding a sunflower field!!

- Look at them, they are just pure joy.

- Going for a walk with Anna-Amalia and Hannibal.

- The usual looking down, leg, foot and cat selfie.

- View from where we swam in the Isar, Munich.

- Taking photos out the bus window on my way back to Berlin.

- Bus window photo of endless ginormous north German fields and windmills.

Here I am hoping that the rest of my summer and of course YOUR summer will be just as colourful, warm and filled with joy.  Enjoy whatever summer brings to ya.  Thanks for reading this with your wonderful eyeballs.

See ya spoon.

..love..

All shades of snow.

It is winter.

It is also the start of a new year.

My plants aren't doing anything new or exciting so I will post pictures of my snowy Christmas and New Years adventures with my family, in Bavaria.

-  My Mutti's bees in a snowy forest.

-  A winter wonderland.

-  My brother hurtling down a snowy hill.

 -  Fireworks on new years eve.

 -  Snowy trees, foggy blue skies.

-  Fog, fog, fog again...and a hidden steeple.

Enjoy your winter!
..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..