Ingen av de senaste fyra katter som jag haft har läst detta. Vanligtvis så tittar de föraktfullt på vattenskålen när vi ställer fram den och sedan går de och dricker från regnvattnet/dammen. På vintern satsar de på vattnet i vattenkannorna.

Ghosts doesn’t like sunshine

A bicycle with a child seat mounted on the back parked on a paved path in a park. A shadow of the bicycle and child seat is cast on the ground.

Hört på radion “om du tror du är för liten för att påverka, försök sova med en mygga i rummet” 🤣

De som bor i Skravelsjö har i alla fall humor

Funny moment of the day. We spent some time at a cafe and a couple sat a table close to us. The man had propped up his phone on the table, had earbuds in and was completely focused on a football game. The woman didn’t look too happy.

Did I take photos? Of course I did … but they stay unpublished.

Do I need to tell you that I’m working at the computer science department??

Nerd level: high

Truth

Is this what is meant by “outdoor living”??

If something can go wrong, it will - funny

I thought you would enjoy a good laugh. I try to take at least one walk each day, the last few week I’ve got up 4-5 and taken a nice walk before work. This is purely for exercise but I still have my camera with me. I usually carry my Lumix G9 (m43 system) with a 12-60 mm zoom (24-120 in full frame speak), sometimes a 35-100 (70-200) zoom, or once in a while a 75-300 (150-600) - I only have one lens with me, remember this is exercise.

I usually take some photos of interesting trees, some landscape, etc. I rarely see any animals, perhaps a rabbit, a few birds, but that’s about it. Sometimes I scare a capercaillie (name translated by Google) or a moose but I usually don’t see them. I don’t mind since these walks are really good both for my body and for my mind, I don’t really need the photos.

Anyway, having seen the same trees almost daily for 1.5 year made me want to try something new. So, today I attached my 7-14 (14-28) lens to the camera, first time since the pandemic started, with the intention to see see if I could get a new perspective of something.

Well, I started to walk and 45m into my walk I saw a raven, that happens, then I see four more sitting on two stones just 40-50 m in front of me. I’ve NEVER seen so many ravens so close up, I lift my camera and … remembered what lens I had. So let me show you my very nice picture of 4 ravens sitting on two stones very close to me, with a 5th circling above me. 🤣

I would have had wonderful portraits of these ravens if I had brought my 35-100 !!

Tack för det

Jag vet inte riktigt vad jag ska säga om Centerpartiets Cecilia Bergstöm (en lokalpolitiker här i Umeå). Hon skickade nyligen ut lite sedvanlig politikerreklam med det vanliga snacket - men jag hittade följande pärla:

Ska Umeå universitet och de större företagen i Umeå fortsätta utvecklas och konurrera på en global marknad måste attraktiva boendemiljöer finnas, både för de som är versamma inom universitetsvärlden och de som jobbar.

Med andra ord så jobbar ingen som är anställd på universitetet! Hmm …

Det är också lite småkul att följer man den länk som finns på utskicket, http://centerpartiet.se/cecilia.bergstrom, så hamnar man på en sajt som har en URL som börjar med old.centerpartiet.se :D