Somewhere above the skies

...the sunset is fantastic!

(and, btw, the view is from the business class loo onboard SK983 CPH-NRT :)

When it rain, it pours!

We got "a bit" of rain (and hail for that matter):

View into the front garden

The gutters on the house couldn't cope -

I hadn't check the rain measurement thingy for the effects of recent showers - but I believe we could have received 20 mm or more in 10-15 minutes. There was a river down the driveway which gave us a temporary pond in the back garden

Oh dear!

Apple tree in full splendour

Inspired - or at least reminded - by the splendour of growth and flowering at Kew Gardens today, here is our own home spring wonder, the Belle de Boskop (if that is the correct spelling) apple tree in our back garden:

Makes me wonder if we're getting tree-tilting amouns of apples once more...

Evening sky

Yesterday, we were shown this breathtaking sunset from the living room windows (those are upstairs...) -

I had some difficulty in framing it - ideally, I should have been floating in air some 5-10 meters to the left of the house. And reaching out the window as far as I could reach, I did find it difficult to focus where I wanted exactly to get the light right.

So I confess having tweaked the image a bit - cropped and added an adjustment layer in Photoshop. But I swear to Bob that the colours are bang on my recollection of them!

(oh - and while I was at it, I removed a very irritating TV arial... ;)

Spring Photos

Spring and Easter co-arrived

Well, as these flowers are called "Easter lillies" in Danish... The sight of them against the blue of the front door just was nice in the sunshine yesterday :)

The ants are part of another story ;)

Light on a rose

I like the light on this one:

Don't know if it transfers well to the small size used here. But there's a soft, velvety feel to it in full monitor size. Quite happy with my new camera :)

Travel-ling pictures

That is, pictures while travelling - a couple of out-of-airplane-window ones and a rather surrealistic one from the Copenhagen Metro...

Alps

Windmill farm outside Copenhagen

The bridge from Copenhagen to Malmö. Yes, it is finished - but the last bit's a tunnel...

Hurling into the tunnel. Magrathea anyone? ;)

First difficult shot

Typical me.

Just got a camera - and I have to shoot the first picture in low light through a window...

Not unhappy with it, though - the stabilising in the camera surely made it much better than what the old camera would have shaken it into... :)

Sofas

...then imagine them in off-white fabric rather than black leather.

Getting quicker to Christmas

Just get yourself a candle with the wick off-center:

OK, you have to cut the non-melting part with a knife now and then and live with the kids yelling that it's cheating... ;)

Well worn dancing shoes

It's probably a good thing that my phone camera is not very good - these shoes look even worse in real life…

Dusty, stepped on, looks very very tired. Roughly like myself after the company Christmas do on Friday. But a h**l of a party it was!

Moon over Mexico

“ A vast radiant beach / and a cool jewelled moon”

Not quite – but a rather reddish one it was.

Pictures were a little hard to take – long exposures and the window in front of the camera made it tricky. So Picasa has helped a little bit on them.

Unexpected horse racing

At the back of the Centro Banamex in Mexico City there’s a horse racing – what’s it called… arena?

When checking if the conference buses were around, they had the horses out – with numbers and jockeys on them So I got a few pictures – even if my camera acted up and didn’t want to properly burst a series off the starting gates:

On the way down to the starting gates in some sort of order

First race thundering by

Pre-race exercise

Getting into the gates

And off they go...!

Pilanesberg National Park - a wonderful trip

Some very kind colleagues from our South African distributor spent a day taking us to Pilanesberg. In order to get the most out of the day before the heat became oppressive, these two guys got up at sh*t o’clock in order to pick us up just a little bit later (at 4:30 am!)…

The idea was absolutely right, though – we got there shortly after 6 and had only driven a few hundred meters in the park before we saw brown hyena and baboons. And as the day went by, lots and lots of animals. Only thing we did not see were the big cats – but the elephant family bathing and playing in the water made up for that.

What a lovely day! Thanks and thanks again to Peet & Riaan (hope I have got that spelling right)!

Northern nights

Taken around 22:20 (10:20 pm) on Saturday evening near the wife-family’s house in Sweden. Not a wind in the evenings, still warm enough for shorts and then the light…

This guy also loved it up there!

Runrig in Copenhagen

Show was a lot better than the photo quality would indicate. The venue – Store Vega – actually is very nice. Old union hall, dark-panelled walls. Good sound, I think and as it only seats (stands? – only seats in the rear part of the balcony) about 1500, it has a nice atmosphere.

Brilliant campsite

In the middle of Gribskov, there’s this fabulous campsite -

4 shelters with a total capacity of 40 people or so (a little more in the case of scouts ;) and the central covered fireplace. In addition, a big campfire place a little off – and an old-fashioned traditional loo, complete with a heart-shaped hole in the door, in the far corner.

The pictures were taken Sunday evening while dinner was being cooked after a good long day and 30 km hiking behind us.

Spring - the green & white carpet is rolled out

Beach at sunset