TALES FROM A TRAMP

There will be no more updates on this blog

2011-02-05T10:22:00.000+01:00

All new pictures will from now on be posted on the blog SPEILBITER. Hope to see you there

Angels Dancing

2011-01-10T17:53:00.002+01:00

Category WHAT I MEANT TO SAY ...

BLUE MONDAY

Rowanberries - the last few. Ruby Tuesday

2010-10-18T21:55:00.005+02:00

Category SEEN IN THE GREEN
More contributions to Ruby Tuesday HERE

Watery Wednesday #108

2010-10-05T21:41:00.003+02:00

Category WATER
Other contributions to Watery Wednesday HERE

Mellow Yellow Monday #89

2010-10-04T15:39:00.002+02:00

More contributions HERE

What do you think of this year's exhibition, my dear?

2010-10-03T11:55:00.001+02:00

Category HUMOUR

The Wide Blue Yonder

2010-09-27T07:35:00.002+02:00

Category SUNSETS
Blue Monday - see other contributions HERE

Mellow yellow Monday #87

2010-09-20T09:09:00.003+02:00

Category LANDSACAPES

The Crop and the Cradle

2010-09-17T15:51:00.003+02:00

Category LANDSCAPES

Ruby Tuesday #26

2010-07-26T15:38:00.004+02:00

More contributions to Ruby Tuesday HERE
Category WHAT I MEANT TO SAY ...

Watery Wednesday #97

2010-07-20T21:37:00.001+02:00

Lake Vinstri in Jotunheimen
Watery Wednesday #97
Category LANDSCAPES

Ghost from the seventies ... ?

2010-07-18T08:27:00.006+02:00

Knot Grass - larve (acronicta rumicis)

Category CREEPYCRAWLIES

Sunset #7

2010-07-15T17:27:00.005+02:00

The pier, Hastings
Category SUNSETS
Weekday Photos

Privet Hawk Moth

2010-07-15T09:43:00.001+02:00

Privet Hawk Moth (Sphinx Ligustri)
Category BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

Watery Wednesday #96

2010-07-14T08:45:00.004+02:00

WATERY WEDNESDAY

Six - Spot Burnet

2010-07-13T15:45:00.002+02:00

Six - Spot Burnet (zygaena filipendulae)
Category CREEPYCRAWLIES
A contribution to RUBY TUESDAY

Creative Colors #7 - Blue

2010-07-12T12:06:00.002+02:00

Into the night

Category: WATER

WET ... !

2010-07-10T08:39:00.004+02:00

House Sparrow (passer domesticus)

The Last Refuge

2010-07-08T10:02:00.001+02:00

WHAT I MEANT TO SAY ...

Freedom

2010-07-06T08:04:00.008+02:00

The point of no return, leaving everything safe and known. With the body, with the mind, or both.
Freedom is to be taken, it can hardly be given. Even if it really exists, freedom from consequence does not. Some find it to be cruel. The price to pay for it might be loneliness, or the burden of unexpected insight.
Yet, let us see it, we who dedicate our lives for it.

WITH FUR AND FEATHERS

A kingdom for a kiss ... !

2010-07-03T08:38:00.003+02:00

Common Brown Frog (rana temporaria)

Towards Nightfall, Together

2010-07-02T10:51:00.002+02:00

Clinging on to Life

2010-07-02T07:53:00.006+02:00

This dragonfly (aeshna juncea) has just left the larval stage in water. Now it is about to establish on solid ground and in air. However, first it has to spend some hours drying up, and letting its wings fold out. Some of them do not manage, and fall back into the water. So did this one, but in the very last second it found out how to fly.

CREEPYCRAWLIES

Weekday Photos #6 - Sunset

2010-07-02T06:53:00.001+02:00

24 Carat

The role models

2010-07-01T10:29:00.005+02:00

All in line towards the brave new world.
(The picture is a composite))
HUMOUR

Survival of the fittest

2010-06-29T09:23:00.003+02:00

HUMOUR

Heaven must wait ...

2010-06-27T10:31:00.002+02:00

... but at least, I tried!

Urban #7 - Bench

2010-06-26T20:54:00.000+02:00

Wisley Garden, Surrey
WEEKDAY PHOTOS

Weekday Photos - 2 of a kind #6: Analog - Digital

2010-06-26T12:06:00.000+02:00

Stonecrop - Mellow yellow Monday #77

2010-06-26T09:40:00.003+02:00

Stonecrop (sedum acre)
This plant was growing on a stone fence outside an old church, the shape seemed to be naturally developed.

Jewels in June

2010-06-25T19:07:00.000+02:00

Forget-me-not (myosotis)

Buttercup (ranunculus)

SEEN IN THE GREEN

On the Border

2010-06-25T18:06:00.001+02:00

WATER

"- who is the fairest of them all ... ? "

2010-06-24T21:31:00.000+02:00

Wood mouse (apodemus sylvaticus)

WITH FUR AND FEATHERS

Bumblebees

2010-06-24T09:22:00.001+02:00

A taste of honey

Challenges and competitions - contributions

2010-06-15T16:20:00.013+02:00

Ruby Tuesday

Watery Wednesday #108

Mellow Yellow Monday

The Wide Blue Yonder
Blue Monday

More contributions to Ruby Tuesday HERE

Red longhorn beetle (stictoleptura rubra)

I spotted these two out in the garden. It was evening, and already a bit too dark for taking pictures. Later I went out with a torch, and found that they were still there, clinging to each other. Next morning they were gone.

MACRO MONDAY. Other contributions HERE

Lake Vinstri in Jotunheimen
Watery Wednesday #97

The pier, Hastings
Weekday Photos #7 Sunset

Wisley Garden, Surrey
WEEKDAY PHOTOS Urban #7 - Bench

WATERY WEDNESDAY

Weekday Photos - 2 of a kind #7 Strong - Weak

Into the night
Creative Colors #7 - Blue

Six - Spot Burnet (zygaena filipendulae)

A contribution to RUBY TUESDAY

Stonecrop (sedum acre)
This plant was growing on a stone fence outside an old church, the shape seemed to be naturally developed.

Weekday Photos - 2 of a kind #6: Analog - Digital

24 Carat
Weekday Photos #6 - Sunset

Camouflage

2010-06-15T14:45:00.002+02:00

Some of them are quite clever at camouflaging themselves.

It is all about surviving in the toughest of environments.

Get on board, the dream is living

2010-06-15T14:23:00.001+02:00

There is a small marina just at the mouth of the river. Here, a bundle of quadratic-looking vessels are moored, bricks of white fiberglass tied up in strict rows. Daycruicers with stripes or logos in fancy colours, all visualizing a forced hurry, as proud conquerors of any element. 200 horsepowers … 250 … 275 …

Contemplating all this sheltered speed, these champions in chains, I also try to look a bit into myself. Possibly hoping that a Sinbad, or even a Long John Silver shall emerge after some time of absence. That doesn’t happen. Almost frightened, I wonder if they might be strangled under a pile of passed years, or stuck in a wilderness of apparently sensible running about.

Partly resigned, I let my gaze slip over to the other side of the river. That is when it happens. A sudden recognition creates an echo. It is the thrill of a thought, an ancient memory, maybe even from unlived ages. I see an agreeable form, a shape of a kind that feeds the soul.

Happily, I zoom in to the dream and the joy …

Seen in the Green

2010-06-15T13:35:00.009+02:00

Forget-me-not (myosotis)

Buttercup (ranunculus)

Stonecrop (sedum acre)

Ragged Robin (lychnis flos-cuculi)

Hjem

Humour

2010-05-25T21:59:00.012+02:00

What do you think of this year's exhibition, my dear?

The role models - All in line towards the brave new world.
(The picture i manipulated)

Survival of the fittest

Heaven must wait ... but at least I tried!

Is he really going to recite his own poetry ... yet again?

Some animals are quite clever at camouflaging themselves.

It is all about surviving in the toughest of environments.

I hear that jackdaws have a sense of humour, this one was probably predicting my future...

One day as the painter Edvard Munch walked along the road, kicking the gravel, he suddenly had a wonderful inspiration ...

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Water

2010-05-25T21:40:00.007+02:00

On the Border

Probably the winter dwelling of the mythological Water Nix

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Creepycrawlies

2010-05-25T21:33:00.007+02:00

Knot Grass - larve (acronicta rumicis)

Clinging on to life ...
This dragonfly (aeshna juncea) has just left the larval stage in water, and is now about to establish on solid ground and in air. However, first it has to spend some hours drying up, and letting its wings fold out. Some of them do not manage, and they fall back into the water. That almost happened to this one as well, but in the very last second it found out how to use its wings.

Six - Spot Burnet (zygaena filipendulae)

Rose chafer beetle (potosia cuprea)

Crab spider (misumena vatia) This one does not make a web, it hunts in other ways. Note the red/bluish spot on its back here.

Like a chameleon it can change colour according to its surroundings.

"Towards night, together"

Red longhorn beetle (stictoleptura rubra)

Hoverfly (heliophilus pendulus)

Hoverfly (heliophilus pendulus)
Airborne ... and looking for another temptation ...

Indeed, yes! And ...

Where they hatch
take a scratch!

(I found this piece of poetry on a shelf in a supermarked i England.)

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Landscapes

2010-05-25T21:25:00.004+02:00

Lake Vinstri in Jotunheimen

Besstrond in Jotunheimen

Old buildings at Gjendesheim in Jotunheimen

Ashurst in Kent, England

Lake, Mjøsa.

Tarn, Bytjernet at Mellbyseter in Värmland, Sweden

Oppstad River

Lake, Storsjøen in Odal.

"Winter dwelling of the mythological Water Nix"

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Butterflies and moths

2010-05-25T16:32:00.007+02:00

Privet Hawk Moth (Sphinx Ligustri)

Silver - washed Fritillary (argynnis paphia)

Painted Lady (cynthia cardui)

It is hard to believe, but this butterfly migrates from North - Africa, and sometimes as far as the very northern parts of Norway.
Maybe not so strange the the wings are a bit ragged ...

Swallowtail (papilio machaon)

Six - Spot Burnet (zygaena filipendulae)

Peacock Butterfly (inachis io)

Scarce Copper (lycaena virgaureae)

Idas Blue (plebejus idas)

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This picture is manipulated, two different ones put together..

What I meant to say ...

2010-05-25T09:08:00.005+02:00

The last Refuge

The Divider

Elements

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With Fur and Feathers

2010-05-25T08:34:00.006+02:00

Bank vole (clethrionomys glareolus)

Wood mouse (apodemus sylvaticus)

Leveret - young hare - (lepus timidus) Probably a couple of months old here.

Red squirrel (sciurus vulgaris)

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Sunsets

2010-05-25T08:01:00.006+02:00

The wide blue younder

The pier, Hastings

24 carat

Vertigo

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