Pete's Blog

Well actually having looked it up, it's not really a caterpillar, it's a larvae from the sawfly. I get these every year on my Solomon's Seal plant that I photographed earlier in my photo365 series. The species is known as the Solomon's seal sawfly.

"Never shoot into the sun" was something you were always told not to do. That was in the days of standard coated lenses with minimal exposure control. The modern cameras are pretty good at coping, as can be seen here with the Olympus EP2 and its 17mm f/2

We had a pond. At one end was a water feature on an incline with a few pond type flowers around the cascade and a stray poppy. The filter pump went so we decided to fill it in. Bricks from the incline wall were used to fill the main part of the pond

I was at the petrol station today and, as I'm sure you're aware, the cost to fill up a tank is now stupendous. Will it soon be as valuable as gold? Perhaps that's why they supply gloves!

I bought some tape...like Sellotape... but from a pound shop. It's quite annoying that they sell 5 rolls for £1, so it makes people think they have a bargain.

Tonight I installed lightroom and am re syncing my catalogue. As I do this I'm working my way through a bag of water melon sweets from one of those old fashioned sweet shops. If you've never tried these and have a sweet tooth I'd highly recommend them.

I'm almost back to where I was at the weekend before the computer drive died...although still behind on the photo365 project I managed to squeeze a few photos in. And am playing catch up now.

Day three without a PC so I decided to take it to David to see if he could fix it. Result - The Seagate 500Gb Sata harddrive is kaput. It's the second drive to die in less than a year! This one just gave up without a real warning.

Love in the mist is one of my favourite flowers and they're out right now...

My last blog was titled unlucky and the following night I was unlucky...my computer hard drive decide to stop working and went into a loop on boot. As the windows logo appeared I saw a quick flash of that famous blue screen of death and then a reboot.