Welcome Valentina!

Welcome Valentina!, a photo by Schepers on Flickr.

 

The “bioscoop” for stones

The "bioscoop" for stones, a photo by Schepers on Flickr.

 

Koolmeesje

Koolmeesje, a photo by Schepers on Flickr.

 

Autumn Fungi

Autumn Fungi, a photo by Schepers on Flickr.

 

Some more pictures from the garden.

poppie seeds, a photo by Schepers on Flickr.

This is a seed pod from our poppie plantation. And there are a lot of them going around.

 

Autumn Macro

flower, a photo by Schepers on Flickr.

Just going around the garden, capturing autumn.

 

Spiderweb

Spiderweb, a photo by Schepers on Flickr.

The fog does wonderous things too spiderwebs. The spiders are nowhere to be seen. They probably got wet feet too.

 

Austria

A couple of days ago we came back from our holiday in Austria. After fixing up the kitchen I kind of needed a week away from it all. We stayed in a hotel (some luxury for the pregnant lady) in the Salzburg province, in a village called Hintherthal.

We did some hiking and visited Salzburg, Hohes Werfen (castle) and the gorge of Liechtenstein.

One day I decided to climb the Hochköning (2940m) to bad it was also the day with the most appalling weather.

Here are some pictures of the Hochköning climb.

The other days I stayed lower just on the edge of the forest and alp meadow. It is a lot friendlier there. 

Here is a Horminium pyreneicum (i think, not a specialist)

The butterflies really like my pants.

There is a very good reason why there is so much water in te streams.

 

Bike repairs.

It’s been a bit busy around, busy at work, busy in the garden, busy in general. Things are quieting a bit down now and I took the chance of repairing my racing bike. It is a aluminium giant TCR from 1998 custom build. It has an Ultegra 6500 group that still runs as if it was new.  I don’t know exactly how may kilometres it made but it has been the world around once or twice.

The frame has lots of scratches and bumps. Since it is aluminium it does not really need paint. But the frame looks just too wasted after 13 years of abuse.

Here is the original dirty frame I’m still taking things apart.

A very nasty looking rear dérailleur. Did I tell you that I don’t really mind bad weather. It is amazing that it takes the amount of sand and mud that I manage to put on it.

Cleaned and ready to put back.

And here it is, looking brand new. Going for a test ride now. Better take the allen wrench with me, just to be sure.

 

Spring is comming

I spend the morning doing the first garden garden maintenance this year. I don´t really like working in the garden when the soil is too wet, it sticks to much. I’ve picked up some weeds and made it a bit ready for spring to come.  I noticed some of the plants coming to life. In the warmer parts of the garden the roses where getting leaves all ready. And here are few of the crocus bulbs popping up.

And here is are some yellow ones. Personally I like the purple ones better.

Rubarb is also one of the earliest plants, when the leaves are still folded they look like little green brains.

And here is our rooster, he has been working on the vegetable patch eating weeds and worms. Having the time of their life now that the can run around free. Soon they´ll have to be locked up, when the seeds go into the ground.