Rainwater barrel

...

Monochrome Monday

Neighbour Crow

2024/12/01

Peaceful morning.
Elsewhere, people are killed, murdered and oppressed.
How can I be happy in the face of this?
Really happy?

Friday is Skyday

09:17

Monochrome Monday

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Friday is Skyday

Balcony view southwards at 09:23

Balcony view westwards at 17:13

Friday is Skyday

...

Autumn pleasures

Ahem ...
The afternoon before, I'd done a good job of sweeping all the leaves.

Monochrome Monday

Oh god, there was the morning light
as Dafydd ap Gwilym would whisper. Perhaps. ;-)

Farewell serenade

At 15°C and sunshine, at midday today
the first cranes circled over Seanhenge

on their way south and delighted me with their singing.

A wonderful concert.

Friday is Skyday

10:34 on Wednesday

13:15 on Monday

19:44 on Sunday

Ménage à trois

Ménage à trois
or

Binge of three

A nice view

The vetches are a nice view these days
when looking up while turning a page. ;-)

Friday is Skyday

. . .

 

Metamorphosis Kafkaesque a

This morning, as I was waking up
from sweet dreams,
I discovered that in my bed
I had been changed into a tiny insect
and now was sitting on my glasses
reading Kafka's Verwandlung:

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up
from anxious dreams, he discovered
that in his bed he had been changed
into a monstrous verminous bug.
He lay on his armour-hard back and saw,
as he lifted his head up a little,
his brown, arched abdomen divided up
into rigid bow-like sections.
From this height the blanket, just about ready
to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place.
His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison
to the rest of his circumference,
flickered helplessly before his eyes.
“What’s happened to me,” he thought.
It was no dream.

Butterflies Dorado

These days one can see why summer lilac is also called butterfly bush.

Several peacock butterflies, swallowtails and others
are frequenting this one.

Monochrome Monday

Missed you. Where've you been?
There'd be a lot to tell.
Anyway, you're back.

Laughing Lhursday*

A garden spook named Philomenosa

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not
let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Dahlia delight

Their bulbs

overwinter in cellar

to delight our eyes

in summer

in many shapes

and colours

until they start fading away

and their bulbs ...

"My" Rowan

A birthday present twenty years ago ...

"my" dear Rowan grew and grew ...

and its berries taste good to me and our feathered friends.