the tree

Before I am heading back to bed (got fever over night)

I wanted to show you our lovely tree

and wish you a wonderful Christmas!!!

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winter tones

We have snow since four days now -

in between it also rained but it stayed cold, so our surrounding transformed

into a surreal looking ice garden. It definitely helps getting into Christmas spirit!

The downside of analogue photography surely is, that I can never show current pictures,

so these are from the beginning of the month.

Our Christmas tree is also finally decorated, Christmas cookies are baked, I only need to finish packing the last gifts, then I feel ready for the holidays! I have to say this December really went by in a crazy speed!

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The last apple

The last apple was a red one.

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preparations

Preparations

and I finally repotted these two pileas.

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33cm

33cm and a sad poem.

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nature

Trees with open arms

on gloomy days.

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More winter colors.

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the cold

Cold and dry weather is a lot easier for me to handle

than only gloomy and wet weather day in, day out.

Today is a holiday in Austria. I made some changes in the bedroom to make place for the Christmas tree. I also made paper stars for the window and put some fairy lights into a glass jar to use

as a bedside lamp. A friend of mine surprised me with lot's of vintage Christmas tree decoration from her grandma. I felt like a child opening the parcel!

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crochet, crochet

I finished another granny square blanket,

this time a little bigger. 

I like how it turned out!

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35mm

One dead bug.

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frost 2

The silence of a frozen world.

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frost

It's colder again! These pictures are from two weeks ago, when the sun was just rising and everything was covered with a layer of frost. I try to shoot one 35mm film per week.  Photography helps me to keep a positive focus, to transfer feelings, it motivates me to leave my home when everything seems to be difficult.

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