Another beautiful morning. I say that despite the fact that it´s raining and it´s rather cold outside. Back home there´s a fire in the stowe and my coffee maker is on its way to make my morning perfect. To be honest, I kind of like these days when it rains after a long warmer period. I then don´t have to feel guilty not going out to enjoy the great weather :-)

Sometimes I really miss my old camera, a Minolta XG1. Misunderstand me right now (swedish saying), I really like the camera I have now. It takes great, sharp pictures so I´m very happy with it. But there are somethings with these modern digital cameras that disturbes me a bit.

I love seing when the ferns slowly rolls out and reveal the shape of their leaves, It´s almost better than to se the actully leafs.

With my old camera I could quickly adjust the focus and then press the button so it took the picture I wanted. The new ones have autofocus wether I want it or not. My camera has touch buttons, so I only have to touch it easily and it focuses all by it self. Then I press the button again and the picture is taken. That is if the motive stands still and the camera is in the right mood. If it moves it´s a completely different thing.

A white Checkered daffodil. If one looks close one can see that it still is checker bord coloured, but in white and very light yellow.

Like yesterday when I saw a fox in the field when I and my dogs were out walking. The fox looked at something just ahead of it, probably a vole or mouse I think. I grabbed my camera and of course I had to turn it on. It takes about three seconds until it´s ready to take a picture. I amed at the fox and touched the button and it adjusted the focus real good. The problem is that it´s makes a little noice when I touch the button, a little bleep. The fox wasn´t far away and despite that he was very focused on the vole or what ever it was, he heard the sound clearly. So I press the button again to get the picture. The only thing that happens is that it bleeps again! It actully bleeps several times in a row. Sort of telling me that it wasn´t especially satisfied with the last focusing and that it wasn´t consentrated this time :-)

Another Violet, but even if it looks almost the same as the one I photografed down by the creek, this one lives where it´s rather dry.

Yet again I touch the button. The picture is now focused at the place the fox stood at before it started running away from me. I press the button and the little bling comes once again. “Well You didn´t tell me what to focus on, did You?” I sort of can hear how the camera mocks me :-) Once again I press the button, I really want to get a picture of that fox. The camera actully takes a picture, but on the trees far, far away from both me and the animal. With a bit of imagination the brown-red spot in the picture can be a fox, but it can also be something on the lens :-) :-)

I´ve said it before and will say it many times more. I think the polyporuses adre really beautiful! I know it means the end of the trees when they get them, but I still think they are beautiful.


These ones also have some colour undernieth.

Some of them can grow really big. This one is over thirty centimeters wide (twelve inches).

Usually I have my camera set for fast moving objekts, when having it that way shaking hands doesn´t give a bad picture. But if I use the super macro, the fast moving setting goes out the window so to speak. The camera then doesn´t care if I want to get a quick picture, it will take the time it feels like :-) So there I stand usually in a difficult position and my hands start to shake. Guess how the picture will look like :-)

The first strawberries in bloom. We are getting strawberries early this year.

But those things aside, the new cameras are greate. One can get a really high quality camera today for less than then I bought my much loved Minolta XG1 over twenty years ago. One doesn´t need to take all pictures on a film and then wait a week or two to get the pictures home, just to realise that half of them were crap. One doesn´t have to pay to get them developped either. One just plugs in the camera to the computor and woops, there Your pictures are and only the good ones. The bad ones has already been deleted in the camera.

When the the flowering period of the Cherries slowly geta to an end it´s time for the Bird cherry trees to start. Some of them smells wonderful, but a lot of them smells like cat pee. This one however smelled fantastic.

Well if it doesn´t rain on my next walk I´ll try to find that fox again :-)
Have a great day now, I will!

Forgetmenots.