Mosquito bites

Cloudy, almost windless day. All the mosqitoes were biting me. However, I took some pics at my mom's garden.

Summer is back

Testing, testing. One... two... three.

There has been a winter break in this blog. Now I'm back. In mobile posts, pics are taken by using samsung galaxy s5.

I took these pics on my night cycling trip. Timestamp is around 1am.

Bugs of autumn

Autumn is at the door

You can find a lot of interesting creatures of nature, if you just stop and watch. This is just what I did at the farmville and at our terrace. 

A bush-cricket enjoying of a sunny day.

A spider waiting for a prey on a net built on a pea plant

Hanging on a corn plant

A spider looking through a window

Resting after lunch

Summer has just arrived

I had a nice walk in botanical garden in Oulu today. Weather was nice and many spring plants were blooming. It was a little bit windy, but, I managed to take some close-ups of some flowers and plants. Here are some of the pics.

Botanical Garden, Oulu, Finland

Insects were also busy, especially ants were working hard.

A branch of a birch and an ant

Flower and an ant

Reminder of last summer

A dried flower

And finally, the bloom of the spring/early summer

Reaching the Sun

Flowers of the spring

A flowering tree

On the ground

A flooding river

I got my camera back from guarantee repairs finally. It took three weeks to fix! The adjusting switch was broken and it was replaced.

These pictures are from Koiteli rapids in Kiiminkijoki, Oulu, Finland.

Close ups of plants

A leaf of Balete Tree

A cactus

A leaf of a lily

©Petri Heinonen, 2013

Veggies

Onions and ginger

Green apples

Here are two  shots of veggies. I'm planning to build a light box to improve my food photography skills. Let's see the result then...