diminutive residual

all the strawberries are harvested, the field is broken up and the farmers have quickly left the area to worry about the rest of the summer yield. only a few wooden boxes - i think they are called lugs - remained on the field. 

instead of harvest-fresh berries this one lug contained just one single drop of rosin, apparently it was left to its fate. well, all good things must come to an end.

stop!

stop this object!

it's quite uncommon to go into the water with a 1000 bucks camera in the hand, but at times unusual approaches make sense.

sea animal tamer

however much i long for the yearly surf vacations in portugal, that time still seems to be far away down the road. so for today i have to keep my spirit up with an old photograph from last year, although the shown is not quite to my taste.

late shift

the panorama mode is a well-working feature of the sony nex system, that i use from time to time, but have just shown one time on the blog.  i like the results especially with the 50mm view.

while i was enjoying my evening bike ride, the farmers still had to bring in the harvest. not quite an easy job...

harvesting lines

and suddenly all the corn is gone again. let's hope, that this event doesn't point to an equally abrupt end of the heat wave. 

in the spotlight

what are friends for? gossip, beer and great mountainbike rides through dark forests, across steep ascents and back down into the valleys. 

aesthetics of decay

i don't recall, how often my beloved banana plant was supposed to be dead and gone, if tina had had her way. but fortunately i got my demand accepted, so that the slightly decayed plant is able to recover outside in the summer heat. its desire to live is sensible - it folds up its leafs to effectively collect the evening sun rays.