*pink treat for the eyes

When a storm broke down my dahlias, I cut them and made the biggest dahlia bouquet I’ve ever made – and it looked stunning! By now, I’ve dug up the tubers and stored them in the cellar for the winter. I’m already looking forward to trying a different variety next year.

Do you also have any flower plans for next year?

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*fairy ring

On our little forest getaway, I saw a beautiful fly agaric fairy ring in the tall grasses. Fly agarics always remind me of my childhood – we don’t have them much in our area, and this year was a very poor mushroom season anyway. Hopefully we’ll have better luck next year!

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*new watercolor paintings

Here are three more watercolor paintings I’ve made recently. The elephant painting will soon be available as folded cards in my shop. I still need to take product photos, but the days have been quite gloomy lately, so it’s been hard to get decent shots with the poor lighting.

I’m starting to move slightly in a Christmas direction with my paintings and have some other new ideas I want to bring to life. For now, though, I’m working on a new commission that requires most of my attention.

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*October gifts

{Music: Warming Light – Jonny Easton}

October was full of nature gifts and the most beautiful lighting moods. I started a cure with birch polypores (a highly potent medicinal mushroom) that I found on my walks and we stayed some nights in the forest again and were witnesses of a wonderful full moon! 

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*the autumnal table

For some time now, I had been putting novels aside to read more non-fiction, but I missed immersing myself in the world of stories. So I started reading again in the still-dark morning hours, with a candle burning in front of the fogged window. The first sounds, apart from the cars of people heading to work, are the cries of the crows. Then I know the sky is becoming slightly brighter, while the air grows colder. It’s so beautiful to feel it all, to live from the inside. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by all the subtle nuances of everything. There is so, so much between black and white – everything, multilayered in all dimensions. Thinking about this reminds me of my early childhood, when I would regularly force myself to think about death. People said there is nothing when you die. I tried to immerse myself in this nothingness, and it created the strangest feelings in me. I cannot say they were pleasant, it was more like falling into an endless hole, yet at the same time, they drew me toward them.

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*wild cam

Recently, I woke up again to the sounds of the deer, so I thought I’d take a look at the latest wild camera pics – and here are some of them for you! It’s always so funny to see what’s going on in the garden in the middle of the night. No foxes or martens at the moment, but plenty of rabbits, deer, and cats.

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*home in a spiral

The last pictures of this "Between the worlds" series.

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*moon elf

I had the sketch for this illustration for ages in my drawer and was so happy that I finally painted it! It fits the time of the year with the stunning full moon we had and the more and more gloomy weather we are starting to have.

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*When the mist returned

{Music: Touch – Mattia Cupelli}

And here a little movie of my detour into the world of mist.

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*wrapped in spider webs

Another month has gone by, quicker than ever, it seems.

I’m working on a few small projects right now, and it feels really good to be able to paint again. But whenever I start feeling better, I tend to want to do too many things at once – energy management isn’t something I’ve quite figured out yet. It just feels too good to create, especially after having been held back so many times for various reasons.

Our November started with beautiful sunshine. The leaves are turning colors late this year, but that makes it feel even more special. I’m going to make some tea now and leave you with a few more pictures from the misty days we’ve had here so far.

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