Charlotte used to collect these leaves, because of the ridges.

I seem to be on a closeup kick the last couple of days. I might go walking somewhere I’ve not been before tonight – there’s got to be so much of this place I’ve never seen before.

Charlotte and I realised that this weekend, we have been to the same places we went on our first two dates. If it were intentional, it would’ve been romantic.

For some reason, I’m not my jolly self today. Luckily, we have a pretty good source of cute things in the immediate vicinity to help me out. These ducks were so tame – I was crawling towards them with my camera to my face, ready to catch them before they ran (note the use of a 24-70 – my lens isn’t built for this sort of thing!), but they just stayed put. It was awesome. I carried on snapping, trying to get them to respond to me, but I guess I took it too far and they ran. Bless.

Oh yeah – obligatory dewy grass shot – I refuse to take both my flashes and an assistant with me to get this right, so this will have to do!

Continuing the unofficial food abstracts and closeups, the incredibly-difficult-to-white-balance; Raspberries. Nice-looking, stupid-tasting.

There are snails everywhere today. Some of them have these cool, tiger-like markings on them. Odd as it may seem, just watching them for a while is actually really interesting.

A cute pile of blossom I found on the floor, happily drying on my desk.

Strawberries are the best fruit. I’m not a huge fan of the taste, but look at those things. They’re so cute!

I have new respect for jewellery photographers.

I never thought this peace lily was going to flower. We’ve had trouble with them since we moved down here; they just stopped flowering.

Constructive use of my week off; video games, iPhone programming and sleeping off headaches!

The house we wanted to look at has been sold. Would’ve been a fun project to fix up, that one. As if I have any free time!

The roses are coming out.