Brambling.......Fringilla Montifringilla.....Bergfink ca. 1 year old 

Colourful Guest

First seen 3 weeks ago for a short time, this colourful guest and a companion showed up again today. I understand it's a 'red list' bird in England though in New Zealand, where my nephew and his fiancee live, it is very plentiful

Stefan (http://www.birds.se ) again kindly provided identification for me as this is not always easy for me...I am not an expert 'Bird watcher' and also am a little colour blind. Stefan was also able to tell me that it is a 1 year old bird :)  Many thanks - again - Stefan

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Yellowhammer - Emberiza Citrinella - Gulsparv 

changing,changing,changing...all the time. Nature never allows us to rest unchallenged by new developments. Most of the snow has now gone from the lake surface..transformed. 

Past 200,000

Well, now we went over the 200,000 count

for website hits on the

www.Ragnhild-Monsen.com  website.

 

Thats a first since the website started in 1998

 

 

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Website visits/hits

There seems to be a lot of interest in my wife's art

judging by the activity at her website these past 2

weeks - which coincides with her exhibition in Galleri

Infra, Stockholm.

 

Visits and hits are 200% more than the average for

the previous year - and we are about to have a record

for a month and for a year, with hits about to top

200,000 for the year possibly today but certainly

within the next 24 hours!

 

In case you wish to visit, the url's are:

 

www.ragnhild-monsen.com

or

www.tapestry-art.net

 

 

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Snow Go

After 24 hours of temperatures above freezing all

the snow is starting to melt and to go - as one would

expect.

The frozen lake has a covering of water from the rain

we have had and is 'groaning' at night I presume as

the molecules expand through thawing.

Winters in Sweden  - or the area of our home -

are so interesting.

 

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Stockholm Exhibition

Oh, I think I like this Qumana :)

 

The reason I was not blogging last week

was because my wife (http://www.ragnhild-monsen.com )

was holding a major exhibition of her art work

 - she has been a professional artist for over

 30 years - at Galleri Infra, Infra City,Stockholm

http://www.galleriinfra.com

 

So we had a marvellous stay at the Scandic Infra

City hotel and a hard working week erecting a

very large amount of very large tapestries and

textile art.

 

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utstallning Stockholm-exhibition Stockholm 

Stockholm utstallning - Stockholm exhibition 

Stockhol ustallning - Stockholm exhibition 

Qumana and backups BLOGS

Hmmmm.. I must be getting nerdish :):)

 

This is a trial of an offline Blog editor which has many

very nice features to help us write our blogs...especially

offline.http://www.qumana.com

I also solved another little problem today with my blogging.

Over the 5 years I've been blogging I've had 2 harddisk

crashes...one caused by an (at the time) undetected virus

which finally managed to physically destroy a new 80 gig

HDD.

This gave me something of a headache or two, as a lot

of my blog backups also disappeared. Today I grabbed

a free opensource website copier that also copies BLOGS.

Beautifully :):)

http://www.httrack.com

 

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