To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

So, this blog post is a little bit of everything. A little bit of hope, wonder and pride. Just for the length of this blog post I ask you to not think about all the horrible things that are happening in the world right now, just breathe and take a look at my little photo diary of living things.

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow" 

-Audrey Hepburn

- I took part in the Berlin Firmenlauf in May! These are the balloons opening the race! I ran! 5.5 kilometers! So proud!

- Some waterlilies in the Britzer Garten.

- Doing a headstand, also in the Britzer Garten. It's really nice seeing the world from a different angle sometimes.

- This photo always makes me laugh! Taken out of my window looking down onto the balcony of my downstairs neighbour.

- A bumblebee on some chive flowers at Allmende Kontor on Tempelhof.

- This fluffy shot was snapped at the Berlin Open Garden weekend in Rixdorf.

- What a colour combination! Looking into all these gardens was wonderful. You wouldn't even think that there were such wonderful backdoor gardens in a city.

- Oh and what is this I see?! Bees!? Yes it is!

- The amazement just wouldn't stop...A POOL TOO!? With plants growing inside. Am I in heaven?

- Out of Rixdorf and to Tempelhof. My view during a lovely evening spent studying for my final exams on Tempelhofer Feld.

- Ok...so this is our new plot, which we kind of started working on at the beginning of May. There's still a big possibility that it's not definitely ours, but we have been planting and caring for it for the past two months. So, whoever's out there that also thinks it's theirs, let's join forces and share! Together we are stronger! Photo taken in May.

- Here's a picture taken a couple of days ago! Look at all that life!! Everything is growing amazingly! So super duper proud. I could spend hours looking at all of them little plants in there.

- The growing carrots! Sweet little stems.

- This was the first big harvest that we collected! Strawberries and white and pink radishes!

- In one part of the plot we sewed loads of seeds that my Mutti sent me! Mutti, what are these flowers called? They have the best leaves and the cutest little flowers!

- This is a bouquet of flowers that I made at work with my kindergarteners. A flower bouquet for my colleague's birthday! The kids absolutely loved each making a flower, and seeing them all together in a bouquet is just wonderful and is a reminder that there's beauty in all of our differences.

- Sunset at Allemende Kontor.

- That sun was making everything look like a honey filter was put on the world. Oh and dem sweetpeas are just beautiful!

- Another sunset snap at Tempelhof.

- Now I will beam us to my bedroom garden. This is the start of the aubergine a couple of weeks ago.

- Check it out! That baby's growing!

- This photo was taken today. I have been reading up on when to pick it, but I am really not sure. Anyone with aubergine advice is welcome to write me a message.

- I've been growing carrots on my bedside table, and yesterday I just thought I'd see how they're doing. Pulled one out and I have to say it might be one of the cutest things I've ever seen! It tasted absolutely delicious. For now I will let the rest get a little bit bigger, but YAY TO BEDSIDE CARROTS!!!!

- To end this post I go back to our little garden on Tempelhof. Here's the corn. If in one picture I could promote hope then I would choose this one. Look at those little blossoms wrapped up all cozy, protected by the most luscious green leaves. Just like this corn plant we don't know what will happen, but let's see what will be!

I wish you all a wonderful rest of the week.
Don't forget to see all the hope in a time that makes you think there is none.
..love..

p.s. I passed all of my exams!!

Look what I made!

Hey!!  I totally forgot about this place for a while!  In case it interests anyone, I have been healing well since my operation.  I am without leg brace, etc.  I've been doing my rehab sports therapy workouts to strengthen my knee again and I'm feeling real positive about it!  I've been busy busy working and colleging with no time for blogging.  Boo!  But here I am now, feeling good!

So for today I thought I'd put up some pictures of some of the cards that I've made in the past 2 years.  I forgot to take pictures of a whole bunch of them.  Some of them are plant related, but some of them aren't.  Most are birthday cards but some of them aren't!  I might throw in some non card pictures.  Who knows.  Let's let ourselves be surprised.

I will start with the oldest.

 made in the spring of 2014

made in the summer of 2014

made in the summer of 2014

made in the summer of 2014

made in the summer of 2014

made in the autumn of 2014

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the spring of 2015

made in the summer of 2015

made in the summer of 2015

made in the summer of 2015

made in the summer of 2015

So...this was a bit of a show off my cards kinda post.  Why not, eh?  Let me throw in a picture of my courgette plant in front of the blue sky (until the blue sky disappeared behind rain clouds) for good measure!  That's all folks.

..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..