Getting personal: the best of the autumn leaves that I had dried for decoration before I was forced to finally throw them out because the shelf space was needed for the celebration of my mother's and mine shared birthday. I was very sad to let them go, so I turned it into a little ritual of "returning them to nature" to cheer myself up.

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The rest of my photos from 9 December, when I finally got around to them:

(Sorry, people, Flickr is faster than Photobucket, but this whole process of selecting, editing, uploading and sharing photos is till very slow for me):

( The view from my balcony )

English daisies (Bellis perennis) still surviving in one of our parks, 9 December:


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This is what I found in the park after it had rained all morning 2004.

I don't know what they were. And I didn't even touch them.


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Photos from 30 October, a sunny but cold day with a very strong wind. We had already clearly transitioned from "almost summer" (at least during the warmest part of day) to "almost winter", so I'm afraid that butterfly didn't have much time left to live ( Read more... )

I'm back to Flickr now, and I'm using this little piece of autumnal beauty as a test. :)

Photo from 18 October.


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You know that autumn is coming when you see house martins, swifts and bats flying all at the same time in the evening, which typically happens in early September here; even if the weather is still summer-hot and the trees are still green, that’s an unmistakable sign of autumn. The summer martins keep flying out of their nests earlier and then going ( Read more... )

We are transitioning into autumn so slowly this year that I can’t tell if it’s exactly still summer yet ( Read more... )

Now that they have both safely reached their respective destinations and are no longer a secret surprise, I may as well post them here. :P ( Read more... )

Winter came too early this year. They got snow in the western part of the country, including the capital Sofia, on 28 November, while we on the east got rain. And then that rain transitioned into wet snow in the small hours, or at least this is what it looked like from inside ( Read more... )