Mortality
Category: Outdoors
Easter and sun
The summer is already here (at lest in theory, as I look at the heavy rain outside), but I finally had time to spend few minutes with the pictures from our glorious Easter in Finland. Sun and family.
Skiing in the ice was perfect. Even if more active winter sports were also available.
Dad proved us wrong. You can actually get decently sized fish in winter.
Perfect weekend.
10,000 rubber ducks
Small country need small festivals. Few are more bizarre than the Duck Race.
Concept is simple: take 10,000 rubber ducks, sell them to people for charity, dump them to the river and see which duck comes to the finishing line first. The lucky owner of that one wins a car.
All ducks are the same. No tuning allowed.
Half of Luxembourg showed up.
Although not everyone showed similar enthusiasm.
Suspence is building up
And here they come. All 10,000 of them
Some of the ducks need some help
At the end, it’s all for charity. No other reason really.
My duck did not win.
From the Archives: Africa and safari
Over the years I have taken thousands of pics of African wildlife on different safaris. Here are a few. No doubt I’ll add some later on.
This baby elephant wanted to protect its herd and attacked us with enthusiasm. Enthusiasm died before it reached us. A butterfly.
Penguins are typically happy in groups. However, there is always one lone rider.
Mummy and baby in stripes
There should be limits of how personal one should be in removing flies. Buffalo and Oxpecker.
The classic yawn every wildlife photographer needs to capture.
Twins at high alert – boks in Swaziland
Finding the catch
One needs to keep an eye out while others feed.
Urban wilderness
Five minutes from downtown Luxembourg is far away. Tolkien country.
Here comes the sun!
There are a lot of jokes about Luxembourg and the crappy weather here. I will not repeat them. Just know they are all true.
Last weekend was sunny. The town came alive. Can’t wait for the summer!
Being positive
Aparently it rains 200 days a year in Luxembourg. So far the ratio seems to be correct. It rains. Or sleets. A lot.
There is still a bit of snow in the ground. However, today I saw the first flowers. Spring will come.
Blue Moment 