Van Gaughs Sunflower painting on a blue wall. A person is standing before it.

Todays prompt made me think of some precious paintings we have seen in Amsterdam earlier this year.

An empty construction site. In the background a new building and a crane.

An image of the buildup of our new research building. Incredible, how far they have come in the last year since taking this picture.

Zoo Wuppertal

A blue Ara parrot cleaning its feathers

A standing meerkat looking into the camera

A brown bear sitting in a pool of water, looking at the camera

A baby elephant playing with his trunk and a rock

A sleeping slow leopard photographed through a fence

A lion walking through green gras

A black and yellow frog

Finished listening to: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 📚

The last two hours of the audio book felt a little superfluous but looking back I liked the pacing, overall.

Flowers.

a bumblebee on an orange cornflower. More flowers blurred in the front and back in front of a gray sky

I might move my e-mail domain to iCloud+. Any experiences here?

Sun and Water.

Black and white picture. A single rain drop below a thin leaf. The sun is bright in the background.

There is never a bad time to show your stripes.

Created by Ed Hawkins, Licensed by University of Reading, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

A series of blue and red stripes, getting more and more red towards the right.

Finished reading: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Secret Project 2 was as great as the first. My library expects another 5 weeks until SP3, so let’s see what I pick up in the mean time.

I discovered PeakDesign. Well, I have their excellent Mobile line for my iPhone for quite a while already. But now I bought a camera and rediscovered all their camera gear. The shopping basket is now dangerously full.

A Sony Alpha 6700 camera

new camera day 📷

I ordered a new camera last week! Ditching the Nikon D750 and going back to APS-C. After carrying it around a week on various hikes I cannot wait to make the switch.

A lake between forrest hills. A patch of sun is shining on one of them

I was lucky enough to get accepted at a conference in Montréal and was able to combine it with a couple of days on the road in Québec. Just lovely.

In the end, social media platforms are like messaging services. It doesn’t matter what you prefer, it only matters that you can interact with the people you want to interact with.

Finished listening to: American Gods by Neil Gaiman 📚

I had absolutely no idea what to expect when I borrowed the audio book from the library. But it showed up as “Popular” and, more importantly, available. Overall, I think I quite liked it.

Finished reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚

What a delight.

Currently reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson 📚

The whole Cosmere really is something else. I can’t recommend it highly enough to anyone interested in Fantasy.