Daisy, Violet And Co.

I wish you'll have a great time to celebrate christmas with your family and friends.
May you have a peaceful and relaxing time.
A Happy Christmas to all of you!

It's about time to give you, dear friends, an update of my blog and life and activities.
Most of the time I am working and I have to travel a lot and have to be busy and creative and therefore I don't have the thoughts to write here. So sorry.
But I promise: soon it will be better and you can expect my regularely presence here.

I found the new release of the MyOpera today, looked around a bit and have to say: not bad. Even if it seems there are some problems with the member photos, but I guess, the devs are working to relieve this.
We have a lot of storage for our photos now (why nobody doesn't tell me this before summer 2008, when I was running out of space and did delete a lot of my old photos?)
In any case, now I have more space. And that is good to know, because I have to upload a lot of photos, which I took during the summer.
And... to make you a bit curious: there will come some mystery photo quizzes again during the following winter.

Not to forget: with this post I'll close my autumn photo album 2008. I've added a few photos today, all taken in october 2008 (yes, end of october we've had already a first day with some snow), only the sunset-photo is taken in november.
Oh, it isn't possible to insert pictures of my autumn photo album here... (I guess, this is another problem since the MyOpera release!)
You'll find the photo album here.

I wish all of you a nice and successful time!

and therefore the following posts will fill my fungi and mushroom photo album.

Today I'll start with these:

Only a short post, but with some new photos.
It seems the Autumn 2008 will be one of the nicest: never before I saw such a wonderful coloring of the trees and leaves. Some trees looks sensational orange, red or yellow.

These are just a few photos - more will come soon.





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Although some swallows are still here:

the clear blue skies become claudy,

and then it starts to rain a bit,

it's not to ingnore...
the leaves turn to yellow and red:

and red are the hips of the dogrose:

It is Autumn!
As always: for me the summer was too short.

But it is nice to find always some things, I've never seen before, when I walk through the nature.
Yesterday I found this:


Oak apples on the undersides of oak leaves.

Citation of Wikipedia
An oak apple is a mutation of an oak leaf caused by chemicals injected by the larvae of certain kinds of gall wasp. They are so called because the gall, which can measure up to 5 cm in diameter but is normally only around 2 cm, looks a little like an apple. European oak apples are caused by the gall wasp (Biorhiza pallida).