Our Trip

This was us in London. I hope to be able to post more pictures soon.

And The Yard Work Begins

My favorite color - green - is everywhere now. And we discover new plants all over our yard, many of them we had no idea would turn out to be so pretty in spring. While Philip was cutting off big branches from trees I grabbed my camera. I was too lazy to take the tripod (the sun went down behind the hill) out so I need to go back and try out my new lens again with the right equipment. I have a few pictures I still like. They won't make any headlines but they captured this beautiful warm spring evening we had today.

Das Warten auf Maigrün

We've had a few days already to give us a taste of what springtime is going to be like. I can't wait for everything to turn green again. Four years ago I went with my family (everybody including grandma and aunt and uncle) to the botanical gardens when Hamburg was dipped in fresh green.

And Yet Another Year Went By

It's been a long time since my last post. Much happened and we had a lot of fun guests staying at our house. But for today I'll still keep it short. I had a picture of myself that I played around with quite a lot some time ago, this is the end product. I have a similar one of Philip since I tried to make them match but he doesn't like it for some particular reason. So I'm not going to post his although he looks great on it.

Our first pet

When we moved a few weeks ago we found this snake in our swamp (really a pool but not taken care of for over a year by anybody). It was so cute we wanted to keep it but unfortunately it died just two days later. We thought it looked like it guarded its treasure the way it slung around my ring.

Äpfel in den Keller...

Der Herbst, der Herbst, der Herbst ist da.

I went to everybody else's blogs and they all have beautiful autumn pictures posted. Mine are of a rotting apple. I hope this doesn't say anything about me.





























Perhaps you don't feel like biting into it but doesn't it still look aesthetic in it's own way?

Anniversary Present

Our Friends have their anniversary in September, just 3 days after us. They're one year ahead though. Since we had such a great time with them when they took us along on their vacation we wanted to give them a special and personal present they'd really appreciate. So we came up with something all parents would have to love: a hand drawn portrait of their offspring... :)