All April I kept complaining how I don’t like spring (or April, anyway). Now that we’re in the 2nd half of May, things are definitely starting to look better. And by things, I mean everything green and all the other colours! Today’s catch was still mostly just buds, but I’ll happily photograph them as well. Give them another week, you bet I’ll be there with the camera again.

In the morning I checked out the duck pond and was disappointed to find it empty. An elderly couple having a picnic breakfast at the table (yes, there are tables by the pond, it’s not a wild place in any stretch of the word) but not even a feather of a mandarin duck. Dare I hope that they (the ducks, not the elderly couple) will be back? Photographers talk about ”eye candy” and if the mandarins don’t qualify as such, then I don’t know what!