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.