☙ Sometimes I enjoy painting with my pastel chalks on (dark) coloured paper. The most interesting part of it for me is focussing on the highlights since the shadows are already given. I only struggle with

♦ As I told you recently, I took part in a mushroom hike in October. This hike was also a birthday present for my mother, we took part in it together. But for such a gift, of course, you also need a suitable

⟡ After taking a course on wild herbs this spring, I also took part in a guided mushroom hike with an experienced guide a few weeks ago. Since spring I have delved very deeply into the topic of herbs and

♦ When children grow up, their tastes change so quickly that it's hard to keep up with satisfying them. My youngest was just an uncomplicated toddler, now he needs everything to be super cool. Since I'm

♦ Last winter I made some experiments with ice and macrophotography - mostly with a flashlight in my rain barrel. I really like how they turned out, what do you think? Letzten Winter habe ich einige

🌿 Oh my! Now it´s been 2 years since I officially made a new picture which I would call "artwork". Many things happened in the meantime - I wasn´t lazy. I have done a lot of parenting work with my children,

"May I finally dispose of the garbage?!" he asked. Absolutely no way! "Darf ich den Müll endlich entsorgen?!" hat er gefragt. Auf gar keinen Fall! In June we suddenly had tons of these

☆ Five months have passed, now it´s time for new pictures, isn´t it? I haven´t felt like making anything for too long, now my energy is slowely coming back and I hope it will stay for a while. What you

Hello guys, since there hasn´t been so much joy lately, I decided to make a little gift to myself. For a long time I wanted to buy a macro lens. But I didn´t want to spend so much money, so I tried a cheap

☙ Yesterday we went to a petting zoo thirty minutes by car from our place. The last time I was there was when I was a child. Now we took our children there and it was a nice experience for them. Our little

☙ Thanks to @desro I noticed the POB Photo Contest this week - subject: Textures. Since I have a soft spot textures and even have a personal stock folder of different textures, I like to participate as

☯ After a dry period I´m pretty happy for my garden that it´s raining a lot today. The last rain came two weeks ago. Back then I made a little experiment. I don´t have a hight speed camera or special

☙ Looking forward to the upcoming blooming season I found these pictures from the last late summer on my harddrive. We have a speaking in German: Do not saw off the branch you´re sitting on. This huge

☙ After a long cold rain period we´re desperately awaiting spring this year. Last weekend we went for a walk in the Bienwald (Rhineland Palatinate) - this literally means Bee forest. We couldn´t see any

🌑 Good things come to those who wait. 5 years after I started creating an artwork for the Bochum (Germany) based progressive Rock band Preincarnation, they released their debut album "Incarnation

☘ Hey folks, these days I tried something new. We have a little construction site in our basement, and from isolating the floor, there were some pieces of Styrodur - extruded polystyrene foam boards -

Today I'm going to show you a watercolor I painted recently. It took me several weeks because at the moment there is hardly a night that I don't fall asleep with my kids. But sometimes I get up when they

🌑 Hello guys! 4 years ago I already blogged about making an artwork for the first studio album by the german progressive Rock/Metal band Preincarnation. Back then, this band was female fronted. In the

☘ Today I´m going to tell you a totally different story. A story about my maternal grandpa. He was living in the attic appartment in my parents house until he died about 10 years ago. Even until now, my

☙ Hey guys! Actually I would currently spent the last day of my vacation at the snow white Feldberg, GER. Instead I´m glad that I could leave at least my bed yesterday after having a heavy cold and being