It’s a Red Rose Convention! :-)

We didn’t get many rainbows this year, so the one from this evening was an especially beautiful occasion. I took a whole bunch of pictures, this one is just a preliminary version of one of the panoramas – I think I can do better, but here’s just a preview.

This is slightly blurry and heavily filtered, because the original was incredibly grainy – but here’s Mr. Young Blackbird at work! You can see how his plumage is starting to get darker beginning on the tail.

Here’s yesterday’s Supermoon – you can see how big it is because it barely fits into my usual 400×400 pixel frame, the maximum resolution I can get with my camera. I processed this a little bit heavier than usual, because the original looked a little flat. I will also look in my unprocessed Moon shots from this year if there are any earlier full moons suitable for a new Supermoon comparison!

A big rose from a front yard, although slightly wilted.

Another Rose, but how can I resist them?

A slightly heart-shaped Rose – or maybe it’s just pareidolia?

And it’s back to the Roses, I’m afraid :-).

A second photo of yesterday’s mystery bird solution – it was just a young blackbird taking advantage of the wine grapes. It was quite relaxed and later we saw it sitting quietly amidst the wine leaves again. Hopefully it isn’t staking out a nesting place for next year!

The grapes are really starting to go deep blue now, hopefully they don’t all become bird food!