Wood – empire of lights

Life cycles: “a time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting” (Ecclesiastes 3; the German quote is from the same text) – they rarely become as visible as during a walk in the woods, especially once you stoop to contemplate the smaller things…

Change

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

Wald IV

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Park III

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Wald III

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Park II

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Wald II

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Park I

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Holzwege

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Because of its connotations, Holzwege does not translate well. The word literally denotes forest paths or tracks (Wege) that only serve for transporting wood (Holz) from where it was felled and do not connect two places. Since these paths tend to end in the middle of nowhere, hikers who take these paths are likely to get lost. Hence “auf dem Holzweg sein” (being on the wood path) means being errant, lost, wrong.

I found these beech logs rotting in a forest. Decay has marked them in a way that evokes landscapes seen from above, or entirely insignificant maps…

Category: Wood

Holzwege V

Holzwege IV

Holzwege III

“Ein jegliches hat seine Zeit”