Merry Christmas to everyone!

This will be the last post for this year.
So to anyone I do not see or talk to anymore:
Wish you a peaceful Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
:-)

Winterly Baltic Sea pt. 2

Sea bridge of Timmendorfer Strand.

Winterly Baltic Sea

For the first time I experienced the Baltic Sea in winter time. Snow underfoot, the ice-blue still surface of the sea, crystal clear cold air filling my lungs with very breath, watching sea gulls swimming and flying along the almost deserted shore. Never knew how beautiful this could be.

Because I am fascinated of snowflakes any kind :-)

So purely, so palely
Tinily, surely
Mightily, frailly.
Insculped and embossed
with his hammer of wind
and his graver of frost.
(from "To a snowflake" by F. Thompson)

White blanket

Snow settles down even on the smallest branches.

Frozen magic

This shot was taken at the beautiful and silent Muenchehofer Heide.

Winter season

First snow of this year.

Snow Dog

Lucy is always having fun in fresh snowfall.

Head over heels

Fighting gravity.

Network

Roots of a fallen tree at the steep coast of Travemuende.

Ent-Wine around me

Wild Vine taking possession of a stone wall.

Twosome

Male and female mallard duck.

The wind in the willows

Fun on the water

At a beautiful sunny day in November

Western Feeling

Müggelsee Feeling

Thanks for this great weekend, Ralf. :-)

Dismal November

But also sad days can be full of happiness. :-)

The Beauty of Death

Sunlit meadow in fall.

Final Breath of Summer

My Califonian poppy opened it's last blossoms yesterday.
Giving a last feeling of warm season before winter's final arrival.

Purple Fall

Land Art

Made by me.

Herbstfeuer

Little birdie

Female sparrow perching in sea buckthorn bush.

Sunset kite

Sorry for this longer break, but I gotta do something. ;-)
For more photos of my vacation go to
smallworld-aspiration.blogspot.com

Hovering

Seagulls are such beautiful birds.

Water dog

Lucy doing Kneippkur. ;-)

Private Flight Show

The pilot of this coast guard helicopter waved to me out of his side window while I was taking dozends of snapshots from his show flight along the coastline.
Nice guy.

At the border between Life and Death

Found this poor Admiral's butterfly almost dead.
Placed him in a wind-shaded wild rose bush.
Will pass by soon.
Time well spent.

Dune Grass

Sailing lesson

White dog loves white sand

Lucy speeding downhill.

Neighbor's attitude

Cats are silly.

Camouflage

Shivering I look into your eye.

Made of Stone

One of the two big lion statues in Tierpark Berlin-Friedrichsfelde.

Yummie!

Parasol mushroom foraging - my highlight of fall season.

A Camel's Meditation

The camel has a single hump,
The dromedary, two.
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are you?
("The Camel" by O.Nash)

Exotic garden

Leaves of Canna.

Tree Flaking

Not only snakes peel off their skin.
This is a piece of pine "skin" which I found laying in the grass.
It was so wafer-thin that the sun could shine through it.
If you click to enlarge you might see the tiny black cicada balancing on top of the blade.

Get dressed

Snakeskin.

Spiral effect

A Pig's tail.

Menacing Dusk

I slept yesterday night,
looking forward to dawn.
And before I knew it,
dusk won the fight.
(from "Dawn to dusk: Dust to dawn" by S. Berry)

Phlox-issimo

One of my favourite colors of Phlox.

Stripe jungle

Are zebras black with white stripes or white with black stripes?