Canon photo 2018 #31 2018-08-02

As usual, up to 3 photos, 1000 pixels max.

It's still hot and dry here.

So i worked 2 days this week. First time in 3 years.

It was fun. Some nice collegues, but no photograpers so far. (except for the one who made the photo for my badge)

Next friday i'm starting chemo tablets again.

Some time ago i posted a photo of a passionfruit, according to wikipedia these don't ripen in our country.

Well they did this time.

I cut one open. Not much fruit, but sweet...

2 bees on a passion flower.

5D mkII Helios 44-2 EF25II

As usual, up to 3 photos, 1000 pixels max.

 

It's still hot and dry here.

So i worked 2 days this week. First time in 3 years.

It was fun. Some nice collegues, but no photograpers so far. (except for the one who made the photo for my badge)

Next friday i'm starting chemo tablets again.

 

Some time ago i posted a photo of a passionfruit, according to wikipedia these don't ripen in our country.

Well they did this time.

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I cut one open. Not much fruit, but sweet...

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2 bees on a passion flower.

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I hope the chemo tablets will do their job Jan. Sterkte.

5D mkIi Helios 44-2 EF25II

5D mkII Helios 44-2 EF25II

It has been an extraordinarily dry summer in Sweden. Not since 1868 has the summer been this dry and hot. A large number of Swedes migrated to the US due to famine that year. Luckily we have other options today. This little deer came just by the house to look for some greens.

Canon 70D, Sigma 300 f4

Marin is a county of small towns that have their own characteristics and color. Not a terrible place to live. Canon 6D / Canon 24-105mm 4.0 IS

@Mark Keefer I'm curious. Snails, RR and an old divers helmet? In what context was this shot?

This is The Rainy Taxi or The Rain Filled Rolls Royce, at he Dali Museum, Salvador Dali The surrealist artist. The link will explain it. LINK

Some time ago i posted a photo of a passionfruit, according to wikipedia these don't ripen in our country.

Well they did this time.

jd, are you growing these yourself. Also wish you success in your treatments.

This little deer came just by the house to look for some greens.

We have been getting deer in our yard too. I have yet to get a photo. It has been hot but wet summer month here in Pennsylvania. Sorry to hear of Sweden's drought.

I recall back at my parents home, the deer would come up to our apple trees, actually the still do. My mom passed last year, we have the estate on the market, but I was at the house last week and could see the deer in the back field. The nieghbor lady used to put corn and apple out for the deer and talk to them when they would come around for food. My dad would have us out gathering apples that fell to the ground and we woulld fill bushel baskets, my dad would take them up to our camp in the mountains and put them out for the deer there. Those days are past now. Gone with my parents generation. The woods are being cleared more and more to make way for housing, stores and paved parking lots. Even the camp in the mountains has become a resort with golf courses and ski resorts. Big Yellow Taxi

It has been an extraordinarily dry summer in Sweden. Not since 1868 has the summer been this dry and hot. A large number of Swedes migrated to the US due to famine that year. Luckily we have other options today. This little deer came just by the house to look for some greens.

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Canon 70D, Sigma 300 f4

The local news has made it sound as if the "extraordinarily dry summer in Sweden" has resulted in half of the country going up in flames. That just can't be good, but I hope you aren't directly impacted.

jd, are you growing these yourself. Also wish you success in your treatments.

Hi Mark,

yes, this is in my back garden, a little closed in garden. (6 by 10 meters)

The previous passionflower died from the -20C we had 2 years ago, replaced it.

this year is record temperature and drought. Part of the garden i don't water, and even the weeds are dying.

The passionflower gets watered every day..

Thanks for the heads up. I need it. It's more seroius than i;m willing to admid. still too much fun stuff to be done.

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Thanks for the heads up. I need it. It's more seroius than i;m willing to admid. still too much fun stuff to be done.

Never under estimate the will to live and the power to heal. Sending positive thoughts your way. Live life to the fullest.

The local news has made it sound as if the "extraordinarily dry summer in Sweden" has resulted in half of the country going up in flames. That just can't be good, but I hope you aren't directly impacted.

There has been a number of forest fires. Some large and some not so large. None on the island on which I live.

No one was killed which is nothing but a small miracle. Polish fire-fighters went all in and came to our rescue since Sweden somehow forgot that we needed to have resources to fight such fires.

So a big thank you to Poland! :)

There has been a number of forest fires. Some large and some not so large. None on the island on which I live.

No one was killed which is nothing but a small miracle. Polish fire-fighters went all in and came to our rescue since Sweden somehow forgot that we needed to have resources to fight such fires.

 

So a big thank you to Poland! :)

 

Living on an islands is definitely an advantage when the mainland is burning. There's a lot that's admirable about the Poles. It's too bad the last few generations have been so brainwashed by the Soviets.

Living on an islands is definitely an advantage when the mainland is burning. There's a lot that's admirable about the Poles. It's too bad the last few generations have been so brainwashed by the Soviets.

I'm not so sure. Having worked in a polish project, bought a boat from a polish shipyard and hiring a couple of polish workers, my take is different. Yes, they have the same affiliation to bureaucracy and stamps and signatures with the correct titles, but on the same time they seem to have a healthy skepticism towards communism, socialism and oppression of opinions. Some refer to Poland as the "happy camp" since they were allowed religion. But still, they were not allowed to own a boat. It's unimaginable but yet again maybe not. Anyway, we owe them big time.

I'm not so sure. Having worked in a polish project, bought a boat from a polish shipyard and hiring a couple of polish workers, my take is different. Yes, they have the same affiliation to bureaucracy and stamps and signatures with the correct titles, but on the same time they seem to have a healthy skepticism towards communism, socialism and oppression of opinions. Some refer to Poland as the "happy camp" since they were allowed religion. But still, they were not allowed to own a boat. It's unimaginable but yet again maybe not. Anyway, we owe them big time.

Interesting. My experience with them is quite different, but maybe the people I knew were not typical.

Interesting. My experience with them is quite different, but maybe the people I knew were not typical.

It can also be because we have quite different starting-points. As my friend from the Czech Republic puts it: "Sweden is the only country that accepted communism without a revolution." It is of course a joke, but it wouldn't be funny if there wasn't a grain of truth in it. We still have a party that attracts 10 per cent of the population that wants to destroy the free market and abolish private property.The leader for that same party openly regrets the fall of the Soviet union and the fall of the Berlin wall. So it is in comparison to that I interpret the world. :)