🌉 Like a Chakana, a flower acts as a bridge between the layers of the world. It connects nature with our inner reality.

🌺 They grow in meadows and front gardens and invite us to enter into a dialogue. Whether we take a moment to soak in the beauty around us, or whether we engage with their aesthetics to bring joy to others, their appearance is a compliment to open our minds.

🐝 As soon as our eyes land on a flower, we hum the gift of being in this world.

🧠 Not only are they aesthetically pleasing, they also promote mindfulness and a positive attitude.

🌸 The genus Cosmos was given its name in 1791 and translated from Greek means harmoniously ordered universe. Therefore, the garden cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) symbolizes a universal truth in an enchanting way.

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🌉 Like a Chakana, a flower acts as a bridge between the layers of the world. It connects nature with our inner reality.

🌺 They grow in meadows and front gardens and invite us to enter into a dialogue. Whether we take a moment to soak in the beauty around us, or whether we engage with their aesthetics to bring joy to others, their appearance is a compliment to open our minds.

🐝 As soon as our eyes land on a flower, we hum the gift of being in this world.

🧠 Not only are they aesthetically pleasing, they also promote mindfulness and a positive attitude.

🌸 The genus Cosmos was given its name in 1791 and translated from Greek means harmoniously ordered universe. Therefore, the garden cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) symbolizes a universal truth in an enchanting way.

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🐝 Busy like a bumblebee!

🌻 At 13, while living in a children’s home, I took the initiative to find my first job at a garden center, working a few hours each week, becoming the youngest in my family to seek and find employment independently. At 14, I moved to Hessen to live with my father and at 15 began working as a newspaper carrier, a job I held until I was 17. By then, I had completed internships as a bank clerk, gardener, and zookeeper. I also started teaching myself web programming and image editing at 14, followed by two internships at an advertising agency. By 22, I had completed my training as an IT specialist and by 23, I was active in local politics, serving on the board of a political youth organization for three years.

🧱 Due to health issues and related prejudices, finding jobs was challenging. For example, I worked as a deputy team leader in a security archive and also took on night shifts at a conveyor belt sorting station, despite the strain on my health due to the sensory overstimulation (ADHD). I also hold a forklift license and other certifications in warehousing and logistics, and have the endurance to handle more than 20,000 packages a day.

👾 Meanwhile, I earned professional qualifications in marketing and media design and now work as a full stack web developer and designer for print and digital media.

🌿 Despite unfounded accusations of laziness or drug use, I have never had the means or social context for regular drug use. I don't even drink alcohol. I have no criminal record, and ADHD is not a psychotic illness. I enjoy nature, photographing animals and plants, and pursuing my interests. When faced with accusations, I see them as reflections of others’ deficiencies, not my own worth.

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🌸 A few pink poppies grow here every year. But it's rare that I spot one with all its petals. So beautiful and delicate! 😊

📸✨️ I avoid leaving the path for my photos. But if I do, I always check beforehand whether and how I can do it without trampling too much. My pictures are an expression of my love of nature and are therefore almost exclusively taken from the side of the path. Love is based on mutual respect and understanding, not possessiveness.

🐁🪰🚜🌾 The meadows and fields belong to both the farmers and nature. They serve as a basis for life for all of us. Leaving the path can have many negative consequences: dead, injured, displaced or disrupted animals; destruction of vegetation; soil compaction; copycats; financial damage to farmers and foresters; loss of biodiversity.

🪱 Please remember this and stay on the paths to preserve the beauty and health of our natural environment.

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What I see ✨️

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Why so cute?🙃

🦗 Sickle bush-cricket nymph,
Phaneroptera species

🌼 Oak-leaved hydrangea,
Hydrangea quercifolia

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🌸🐝 The fall-blooming anemone (Eriocapitella species) is already opening its flowers.

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A large earth bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) enjoys the Peace Linden tree 🌳🌼🐝

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Tasty thistle!😋 A female yellow-banded furrow bee (Halictus scabiosae) is having a good time near the Stierstädter Heide, a dry heath and nature reserve in Oberursel, where she finds open areas of ground that are ideal for creating her nesting holes.

🌼🪻 Currently, there are lots of thistles and false dandelions growing everywhere in the city, alongside many other flowering plants, that are popular food sources. It has been raining for weeks.

🐝🐝 They do not form colonies with a queen and workers, like the honey bee, but each female furrow bee has her own nesting hole with her own offspring. However, they often form clusters by building their nesting holes next to each other.

🐝🐝 The yellow-banded furrow bee is about the size of a honey bee, and a female could be mistaken for one at first glance. However, their markings are very different.

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If I were a bumblebee... 🌸🐝

This common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum), a species of bumblebee, is looking for sweet nectar, but only finds pollen in this flower, which is also tasty. The garden lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus) does not offer nectar, but has a kind of pumping mechanism in its flowers that is triggered by the bumblebee and delivers the valuable pollen. This is transported to the nest of this social species, where it mainly serves as food for the offspring. Bumblebees fly to up to 1000 flowers every day in up to 18 hours to look for food.

🐝 What would you do if you were a bumblebee?

1. Fly from flower to flower all day
2. Rest on a sunny flower and take a nap
3. Hide in a blossom and watch people
4. Something else (please explain)

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