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melancholy
At this time of the year where many “recharge their batteries” in Greece, I am day-dreaming and enjoying the autumn colours in my own backyard … Listening to music that evokes very different memories than what the lyrics are describing…But for me, Joan’s voice is a switch to go back in time … and become…
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colds and fever …
I have a cold and a little fever, my ears are closed so that my organ of balance sometimes goes crazy … and in the meantime it is raining outside. Today I’ll sniff my nose with salt water and I hope that this old method will clear all my ear passages …
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seen in our garden today …
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memories in our garden …
Many things in our house and our garden tell stories about our history. Two examples …
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a fence that I do not want to see
I wanted a fence to keep our dog out of the herb garden. But I did not want to see it. thin steel wire and some sticks do you see it ?
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you don’t see them often anymore …
I think this kind of beautiful plants should be found in every garden. In Western Europe there are far too many gardens with only grass and paving. “Neat,” is how the people judge about their “garden”. Fortunately I am in possession of a natural garden with lots of colorful plants, fruit…
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the most beautiful natural sunscreen
At old farmhouses in the Netherlands you often see lime trees to block the sunlight … We chose different trees for the same purpose.
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birds
If you want to get experience in taking photographs of birds … then you can easily start to practice in your own backyard. A young carrion crow a young common blackbird
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the young tits have flown out …
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a tour through our backyard
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take a look up on your roof, they said …
there would be gulls nesting, they said … they’ll shit on your house … so I climbed on my roof … on the corner of my roof where the seagull is always sitting, I found this … It seems to me a dead gullet chick. Undigested ? … Is the gull that’s…
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a walk through the garden
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life and death in our backyard
The four young blackbirds had flown from the nest and were scattered in our backyard …. of course I took a few pictures …. beautiful young life ! But …. a few hours later one of the young blackbirds was brutally caught and dragged along by a western jackdaw Nature…
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feels like they are my own children …
Do you know that feeling? When you see those little blackbirds grow, you get attached to them …. I’m already worried for the moment they fly out of the nest … as if they were my own children …
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a nest with four young blackbirds
in our hedge …
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Wim Harwig 