Fanget! - Gotcha!

Musvit - Great tit

Blåmejse og en uforskammet gråspurv
Blue tit and a naughty sparrow

Winter at Unicorn Farm

In February the prompts are provided by Alex J. Cavanaugh, but published at Elephant's Child's blog. Today he has given us two times five words.

War
Alien
Tomorrow
Metal
Dragon
     And/or
Suspects
Quest
Fury
Winter
Darkness

After the hot, wonderful summer where Susan's adventures in Paris , at Grandma's place and in Sweden took place, a winter followed. And not just any winter, but a winter with the worst snowstorm for at least a hundred years. The text is short, only a sketch of an idea that has been ghosting around inside my brain for long. I hope to expand it in the coming weeks. I did not use war. But once again, I took up the challenge of using the prompts in the order they were given. It is fun, and an extra challenge.

Feeling totally helpless was not an alien feeling to Susan, she often felt that way in school. But at the Unicorn Farm! This was new. Tomorrow the new year would start, and she had no idea how she was going to make it in time. All the metal parts lay spread over the table in the back of the barn. It was supposed to go together to form a miniature dragon, but how? She began to suspect that something was totally wrong. Her assignment, no call that a Quest, was to honour the dragons by assembling that statue before sunset tomorrow. But how ever much she tried, cast spells or used mundane glue, it did not in any way resemble a dragon. A wave of fury rose up inside her. It was hard enough to come to the Unicorn Farm in the middle of the winter holidays, and the once in a lifetime snowstorm roaring outside did not help any. Soon darkness would fall!

Fugle på foderbrættet - Birds at the Feeder

Der er rigtig mange fugle i haven, blåmejser, musvitter, stillidser, gulspurve, gråspurve, skovspurve, gærdesmutter, solsorte, sjaggere og mange flere endog en spætte i ny og næ. Træet her er ofte fuldt af fugle, der kæmper for at komme til ... men i det øjeblik, jeg tager kameraet frem, ser træet med fuglefoder  sådan her ud - hver gang!

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In the garden we have birds - lots of birds, sparrows, blackbirds, tits, goldfinches, wrens and many more even the occasional woodpecker. The bird feeding thingies hang in our walnut tree, and the tree is often filled with birds perched on the feeders, on the branches and in the grass below. But the second I grasp my camera, the tree looks like this:

... fortsættes                                                                   ... to be continued

Captions - billedtekster

I lang tid har jeg ikke brugt billedtekster på min blog. Teksterne blev bittesmå, og hvis jeg prøvede at ændre størrelsen med det indbyggede tekststørrelses-værktøj, endte det enten med at billedteksterne ikke blev spor større eller med at hele teksten blev i hvert fald delvis med mini-størrelse bogstaver.
     Nu har jeg fundet en løsning.
     Den øverste del af billedet viser, hvordan New Blogger vil have det til at se ud, den nederste hvordan jeg gerne vil have det.
     HTML-redigering er nødvendig for at få min vilje, men en mega-nem udgave. Måske er det her noget, alle andre allerede ved. Jeg vidste det bare ikke.

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  For long I have avoided using captions for my photos. The text in the captions would be tiny on the blog, and all my tries using the in-blog text resizing-tool ended up either with nothing - the captions still being tiny-type - or worse the whole blog post being a jumble of normal and tiny-type letters.
  But now I've found a solution.
  The top half shows how New Blogger wants it to look, the lower half how I want it to look.
  I have to do some HTML-editing to get it my way - but it's a very simple editing. Maybe this is a well known trick, but I did not know it.

     Jeg går til HTML-redigeringsvinduet, finder billedteksten og tilføjer de to små stykker kode nedenunder for hver ende af den. Hvis man gør tallet større, bliver teksten endnu større.

  This is how I do it: I go to the HTML editing window, find the caption and add those two small pieces of code at either end. Higher number will make the text even bigger.

Jeg har lige slettet al uvedkommende kode udenom,
så man kun kan se mine indsatte koder og selve billedteksten

I removed all text and code not pertaining to the caption and my codes
for ease of viewing.

Den dovne gartner - The Lazy Gardener

English subtitles once again.
     Uglemor har en have, En forholdsvis stor have oven i købet, men Uglemor er ikke struktureret, og ofte kommer der noget i vejen, når der skal laves havearbejde. Undslupne høns, forslåede skinneben, nedbrudte vasketøssnore eller andre mere kedelige ting som pollenallergi, influenzaer og andre sygdomme. Derfor er der meget ukrudt i Uglemors have. Den er for at sige det mildt, vild. Men det er der også nogen, der er glade for.

MotherOwl is a lazy gardener. Her garden is unkempt, even wild.
As can be seen from this snow covered photo all the summer's withered
flowers and herbs still stand around.

     Se, hvor mange afblomstrede stauder og krydderurter, der står rundt omkring. Der fleste af dem er fulde af frø, og der er fugle der gerne vil spise af dem. Gråspurve og skovspurve tager sig af oreganofrøene, stillidserne spiser frøene fra de væmmeligt stikkende karteboller, der kun får lov til at stå fordi bier og sommerfugle elsker dem om sommeren og stillidserne om vinteren. Uglemor fjerner dem, der står alt for meget i vejen.
     Hvem der spiser frøene af klokken 8-blomsterne vides ikke, men spist bliver de.

But someone are happy that MotherOwl is not cleaning the garden.
In summer bees and butterflies drink deeply from the nectar.
And in the winter the goldfinches eat the seeds.
These are the reason why MotherOwl does not simply pull them all up.

Her er et par sommerfugle fra i sommers.

Summer photo with butterflies.