Accident

Can’t remember taking this picture. I must have pressed the shutter by accident while I was sitting in the grass trying to shoot something else. Still I kind of like it so it gets a place on my blog.

Sunday stills – landscape fall colours

You would not expect to see fall colours an a beach. But here your are, the vegetation is turning all shades of orange and yellow:

In the dunes the fall colours come mainly from the sea-buckthorn berries.

Back

So I am back from a holiday that did not go as I hoped. After two days of extremely bad weather I went down with a nasty cold and had to stay indoors till the day we had to go home again. Bad luck. We will just have to go again some time soon. One of the few pics I have to show:

Sunday stills – happiness is…

There are many things that make me happy, but most of them are hard to visualize like beautifull music and perfect silence. And then of course there are those subjects that just are not suitable for a blog like this .
But at this very moment there is one particular thing that makes me happy and that is the notion that I will be going on holiday in a few days time to one of the Dutch Waddensea islands where I go regularly whenever I feel the need to relax and charge my batteries.
Here are some pics I made on my last trip:

Rust, grease and shine

For some shots of the visitors of this event see my blackandwhite blog.

Sunday stills – signs of fall

The first sign that fall is coming near in our garden is always an invasion of spiders

closely followed by the first chestnuts falling. Yes, these are chestnuts:

And of course the beautifull colours everywhere:

Even our dog has autumn colours:

Closer

Every year in september there are dozens of dragonflies in our garden en every year I take their picture many times. Of course all those pics have great similarities, but there is progess too: Every year I dare to get closer. Don’t know where this will end though. Next year I will probably post pictures of a dragonfly with his nose flattened against the front of my lens

Sunday stills – the colour purple

The subject for today’s sunday stills challenge is the colour purple. Well I hope this is purple enough:

Red

A pity I missed the sundaystills challenge about the colour red, because this would have been the perfect entry:

Sunday stills – transportation

Big trucks like this one have a rather hard time in our little l town. Not only are the streets very narrow in the medieval centre but all roads stop at the riverside where the ferry is waiting (if you ar lucky).

The driver of this polish truck was swearing very loudly when he had to turn round because is vehicle was too big for the ferry. Well, I don’t speak a word of polish but it was obvious what he meant.

He made is frustration also very clear by the way he hit the accelerator when he drove off.