The year of the dragon

I know it's not this year but 2012 - so what:


Drawn on my little godchild.

The last four Musketeers

On Saturday, I was at my first Polyglot meeting ever, in Brussels. I met a bunch of people, chatted in several languages, even Dutch after a long time (thanks Corina and Yuri!) and had a ton of fun. The meeting started at 7 p.m. and after 1 a.m., these four and I were the last remaining musketeers:

The Raven(s)

Not by Poe but by me:

Tea roses

Do they have the colour of tea? Do you put them on the tea table? Or do they smell like tea?

So many questions and so little time ;-)

Reaching out

I don't remember for what exactly, probably for his mum.

Another little flower

.. and exactly the colour that was still missing in this garden:

Life In A Day

I was thinking whether or not I should somehow contribute to the movie, picturing life on the 24 July but then I don't have a video camera and I think time lapse films are not permitted. So my contribution is a photo:

The upside of summer rain

Yesterday, it rained for most of the day, to a point that it started to depress me. But when it was over, I could take this picture:

Blooming Bags

Flowers don't just grow on lawns and in gardens, they grow EVERYWHERE! ;-)

Italy?

Little towers on Würzburg Castle that have kind of an Italian feel to them - at least to me:

Far Far Away

...I've seen the morning in the mountains of Alaska
I've seen the sunset in the east and in the west...

Industry meets Nature

... in Würzburg:

Improving the world

R., my student, came in this morning with a little bouquet of cornflowers in a glass of water. "My contribution to improving the world", she said which referred to our conversation on Tuesday. "Beautiful", I said. "Perfect for decorating the classroom." "They are to take with you..." And so I did:

Batman's own church in Würzburg

.. created in his image ;-)

The beginning of a wonderful friendship

... or just a chance encounter in the park?

Monochrome Nature

Finally a really good insect picture and I noticed too late that my camera was still set on black and white (had been taken application photos before but that's a whole other story). Anyway, I ended up liking it, especially for its sharpness and so here it is:

Sunset in the East

What, the sun is setting in the west? Sunrise is in the east? So what, this is still an eastern cloud, lit up by the setting sun:

Catch!

I'm quite proud of this shot as I caught the exact moment at the Parade der Kulturen when these two players of the Frankfurt Football Club jumped for the ball:

The colour purple*

A clover blossom with some "artificial dew", shot with my macro lens and a relatively wide aperture.

*not the movie

Opera-goer

This little guy is an Old-Opera-bunny, not to be confused with the ECBunnies we met before. The opera bunnies are a little bigger, more cultured and outgoing ;-)

Oh and I noticed only now how the morning sun is shining through his (her?) ear, making it look almost transparent.