• Focused on photography

    Peony magic

    2020-05-10 /

    The tree Peony (Paeonia suffruticosa) that we have in our garden does not look great this year. The weather has been enormously dry this spring and the leaves of the bush are partly dry as well. Also the buds and flowers have been fading quickly. My son noticed yesterday that one of the lower growing branches was broken so I cut it off entirely and put into a little vase at home. It looked tempting to be captured and eventually I used it and another even more faded flower for my still life photography. Funnily enough, I ended up with quite a different photo than I started with… Isn’t the…

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  • Around home and village

    May in our garden

    2017-05-27 /

    Do you document regularly or at least here and there your garden, house, flat, I mean the environment you live in? I’m sure I don’t do it often enough… even though I find it interesting to compare the older photos with the current appearance, one quickly forgets. On Sunday I decided to grab my camera and capture some details in our garden and I would like to share some of the photos with you. Paeonia suffruticosa is a flower that has never disappointed me… So elegant. The rhododendron below is a small bush which we bought for just a few bucks in end of season sale in Tesco supermarket and frankly, we didn’t expect…

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  • Around home and village

    Peony and other beauties

    2015-05-19 /

    Quite a few years ago I planted a little tree peony bush (Paeonia suffruticosa) in our garden. I bought it in a garden centre because I liked the picture of its pink flowers presented on a label and based on described growing conditions I decided the peony could grow happily here. It did and though they say the plant doesn’t tolerate replanting easily, it even survived when we needed to move it into a different part of the garden. It doesn’t grow way too quickly but every spring it is covered with impressive buds and then flowers which I’ll never grow tired of being looking at. In autumn those beautiful…

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  • Poetry

    Relief

    2008-12-25 /

    It’s been raining today It was raining yesterday Perhaps I should be sad that there is no sunshine and the sky is grey The earth is soaked and mud is everywhere But instead I’m feeling as if the rain was washing away all that tiredness of last days I’m feeling like being prepared for something new coming soon I’m feeling as if each drop of rain was bringing me strength and energy for the next days I am at home with my children now but I wish I stood outside and let the rain flow down my body to feel its gentle touch on my skin That soothing touch… I…

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