fleißig abwesend | busy as a bee

Vielen Dank für eure zahlreichen Glückwünsche! Heutzutage feiert man das Älterwerden einfach nicht mehr, sondern nur die hoffentlich qualitative Verbesserung des Blogs! Draußen reifen die Ilexbeeren und laden eigentlich zu stacheligem Vergnügen ein. Denn man müsste recht bald die adventliche Dekoration damit gestalten, sonst landen die Beeren ratzfatz im Bauch der hungrigen Vögel. | Thank you so much for your kind congratulations! Nowadays you simply don't celebrate your getting older but the (hopefully) steady progress and prosperity of your blog, great! I have been very busy lately preparing the agenda for the seminars for the next 24 months, redoing my brochures and my website and more of not really creative stuff. I would rather create decorations with those lovely holly berries before the birds devour them. Around Christmas we hardly ever have berries left.

Das ist der eigentliche Hausberg von Glengarriff, der Shrone, das heißt Nase, er ist nun fast braun. Dahinter der Zuckerhut (Sugar Loaf), den ihr inzwischen von vielen meiner Bilder kennen dürftet. | This is Shrone Mountain, which means 'nose'. It protects some parts of Glengarriff from the wintery gales. Behind it you see Sugar Loaf which some of you already became acquainted with as I love to show it in many different lights.