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 summer holiday isn't over yet...IN MY HEAD!!!

Hola!!
Hallo!!
Hello!!

The summer!  Oh the summer!  My summer holiday is over!  Monday I started work again and today was my first day back at college.  And so it goes on, let the 5 day week commence!  So this is a summer post.  The end of summer post.  A catching up summer post.  Just generally all things summer!  I'll have a bit of everything in here, a bit of home and plants and a bit of holiday and sun.  Might be feeling slightly nostalgic for all the wonderful moments, but now is definitely the time to share all of the happenings before they disappear into my short term memory brain.

- Let's begin with a "before the summer holiday" full moon, back in July.  (Berlin)

- Now skip forward a couple of weeks...a bit of log throwing at the lake.  (Berlin)

- The softest grass that I lay on this summer, in the Britzer Garten in Neukölln.  (Berlin)

- A beautiful assortment of colours, in the Britzer Garten.  (Berlin)

- Garden shed at my grandmother's ready for a gathering.  (Neumarkt i.d. Opf)

- Marie Curie (female scientist and first woman to win a Nobel Prize) rose in my grandmother's garden.  Oh, and there's a bee too!  (Neumarkt i.d. Opf)

- The next stop in my summer holiday was Barcelona, Spain.  These next photos are all taken there.  I'll start with a picture of the pigeon tree.  There were a hell of a lot of pigeons in that tree.

- Here are some more, I guess you can't really see them against the background but let me tell you, there were a lot of pigeons!

- Some delicious looking lung, liver and leg specimens at La Boqueria market.  How does one even cook lung...actually...maybe I don't want to know.

- Evening walk on the promenade.  Palm trees and cool tower things.

- FRIED OCTOPUS from La Boqueria market!  I saw someone eating them two days before so we went back on a mission to find them, and that we did.

- The obligatory beach photo!  I didn't wash my hair for 5 days straight after being in the sea every day...what happened to my hair was a mixture between sculpture and rock carving!  Swimming in the sea is definitely one of the best swimming experiences out there and must be enjoyed as fully as is possible.  Is that someone doing a belly flop?  Oh I think it is!

- Here's a photo of a photo of Picasso at the Picasso Museum.  Fun fact: Picasso's dog's name was Lump!

- I actually LOLLED when I saw this postcard in the shop.  Oh and check out that great sea horizon behind it!

- Park Güell, the park that was designed by Gaudi.  Mosaic heaven!

- Washerwoman.  It looks like her dress was made of loads of tiny skulls.  But they were just rocks bro!

- Another shot taken in Park Güell.  Gotta get that sun/blue sky/palm trees combo as often as you can when you're around it aye?  Oh and don't forget the amazing rock-itecture (see what I did there?!)

- After Park Güell we kept walking up the hill and went to Túro de la Rovira/Bunkers del Carmel.  An old bunker on top of a hill from which you can see all of Barcelona and beyond.

 And with that photo I end the photo "montage" of our trip to Barcelona.  The wonderful city which is the heart of Catalonia, Spain.  I hope you have all had an enjoyable summer wherever and whatever you have been doing.
Thank you for reading and see ya next time.
..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..

Just because.

Woah there.  Another post so soon!  Look who's got more spare time right now!  Took some pictures of my surroundings again for the first time in aaaaages.  Today was the first warmer day of sunshine.  After the last two really cold weeks I (and a whole bunch of others in Berlin) are hoping that the summer comes and stays for good now.  Don't get me wrong, I do love a summer storm with some rain...but not when it's only 15 degrees outside.  For heaven's sake it is meant to be SUMMER!

So, here are a few snaps from my day.

I discovered my first zucchini!!!  I couldn't remember which zucchinis I planted in which pot so I had to let myself be surprised.  I am super excited to say that this is going to be a yellow ball zucchini!!!  YAY!!!  (It almost feels like I'm announcing the gender of a baby...here it is ladies and gentlemen, MY EDIBLE BABY!)

Here's a view of my zucchini plant from afar.  Look at how blue that sky is.  Pwooaaahrr!

Here's a view of my other window.  My room looks super dark in these pictures, but it is in fact super sunny.  Probably turns out so dark because I am photographing towards the sun.  Anyways, these are some of my chili and tomato plants chilling out this morning.  They're kind of lost in a backdrop of the tree outside my window!  This is kind of like a "Where's Wally" situation.  Do "where's wally" situations actually exist?  I think I made that up.  Erm, let's swiftly move it along.

I went on a lovely bike ride with a friend.  Through Neukölln and into Kreuzberg.  Deary me, there's nothing better than cycling around sunny Berlin with a friend.  Oh, and I bought myself a beautiful sunflower from the flower stall at the fleamarket!

Some dappled sunshine on cobblestones.  I am just way toooooo arty.  Oh how ponderous.

In my neighbourhood, innit.  Rixdorf was buzzing this weekend due to 48 Stunden Neukölln, an arts festival in and around Neukölln.  Look at all those wheels.

A whole load of green at the blacksmith's on Richardplatz.

Here's me sitting writing this blog post.  There you can see the sunflower I bought today and some of my other plants which are growing steadily.  I don't have so many growing so densely this year.  We'll see how the rest of the growing season goes, I'm hoping that they will all fill the space a little bit more than they are now.  That would be really nice if they did.

And with this I bid you all good night.  Thanks for reading and I hope you've all had a lovely Sunday, wherever you are.

..love..