Colors of summer
Some flowery, colorsy pics I took in the last weeks.
The summer here is kinda weird, with rains and such.
For me is once again one of those summers when I'm with a cold for weeks in a row. This summer had the luck to stumble upon a lot of really good books, some at discount prices (did I mention it before that this is one of the things I love about being here: being able to find awesome books at very low prices!?); and I will mention Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - a funny autobiography, which is in the same time a humorous history of the decade 1950s in the USA. Then, an awesome political and cultural analysis by Hamed Abdel-Samad in his book "Der Untergang der islamischen Welt: Eine Prognose", and then an amazing history of the Virgin Mary, well, rather a history of her cult and also an analysis of how it came to it (very well documented as well), by Jacques Duquesne in (as translated in English) "Salve Regina: The Story of Mary". I read, of course, the German version :P. Last, but not least "Die Geschichte Europas" by Dietrich Schwanitz, a history of Europe like I think it should be taught in schools. I knew the stuff already, but it was such a pleasure to read it in this book, it's how this guy writes, the new perspectives he puts events and such in, and how he really manages to stick to the essential, without missing any important facts. Absolutely fun to read, entertaining and informative, without the whole long lists of years we were supposed to learn by heart in school.
Now, enough babbling, on to the pics.
Baby swan. It doesn't look like an ugly duckling, it looks cute.
So many, beautiful roses flowering in June and July.
Some wild fruits and a bit of camera experimenting resulting in something like a blue filter (which is not, actually)
Again, playing with camera's settings.
The summer here is kinda weird, with rains and such.
For me is once again one of those summers when I'm with a cold for weeks in a row. This summer had the luck to stumble upon a lot of really good books, some at discount prices (did I mention it before that this is one of the things I love about being here: being able to find awesome books at very low prices!?); and I will mention Bill Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - a funny autobiography, which is in the same time a humorous history of the decade 1950s in the USA. Then, an awesome political and cultural analysis by Hamed Abdel-Samad in his book "Der Untergang der islamischen Welt: Eine Prognose", and then an amazing history of the Virgin Mary, well, rather a history of her cult and also an analysis of how it came to it (very well documented as well), by Jacques Duquesne in (as translated in English) "Salve Regina: The Story of Mary". I read, of course, the German version :P. Last, but not least "Die Geschichte Europas" by Dietrich Schwanitz, a history of Europe like I think it should be taught in schools. I knew the stuff already, but it was such a pleasure to read it in this book, it's how this guy writes, the new perspectives he puts events and such in, and how he really manages to stick to the essential, without missing any important facts. Absolutely fun to read, entertaining and informative, without the whole long lists of years we were supposed to learn by heart in school.
Now, enough babbling, on to the pics.
Baby swan. It doesn't look like an ugly duckling, it looks cute.
So many, beautiful roses flowering in June and July.
Some wild fruits and a bit of camera experimenting resulting in something like a blue filter (which is not, actually)
Again, playing with camera's settings.