Sylt in black & white

Ringelgänse (Branta bernicla)

working on a talk

 

for the first time in ages

 

Being silly with the dog

Siproeta epaphus egg on Hemigraphis. Nothing as beautiful as nature.

a butterfly mind

"a person who never settles with one group, interest, or occupation for long"

Came across this expression today when listening to "After Henry" on BBC4 - great way to practice your english.

I´m afraid I might have one.Occasionally.
  
Oh, and along the way (which just proves my point) I discovered a new conspiracy theory, the net is so full of weird stuff...http://conspiracy.wikia.com/wiki/Monarch_Mind_Control

360 Butterfly garden by Jasper Bloemsma

Largest pet store in the world

Been at the, supposedly, largest pet store in the world today, in Duisburg. Not going to name it, cause the owner is not good a dealing with crticism. You can buy monkeys, sloths, dog puppies. Terrible place and attitude, the only nice thing were some really well designed fish tanks.It´s a shame that places like this find costumers - dog puppies had disappeared from pet stores for very good reasons. You either get them from a reputable breeder or a shelter.

technical literature

which has accumulted since April, 1.5 years ago, when my employer opened his butterfly house. Just picked up another one from the post office: Butterfly Gardening for Texas.
Don´t worry about those childrens books- I like using them when doing signs for the butterfly house, the help me simplifying.
Love collecting those books, but need to spend more time reading them.
Never thought that would happen, as I´ve never been into plants and did botany at University mainly because I had to, but I love the plant & gardening books especially.

Now packing for Amsterdam & Lübeck - Invertebrate conference (Tue - Thurs.) & holiday weekend (Fri-Sun).
After the Costa-Rica-Travel-reunion in Koblenz, which was fun ! ;), that´s quite a full programm fro my relaxing holiday week...
(Trolley broken, perfect timing.)

bugged

Last week my car was in the workshop for insepction, quite expensive but o.k., has to be done.
Yesterday my cam belt was replaced, very expensive.
Today my car doesn´t work anymore.

***!!!!

Alledgedly coincidence.

Not happy.