Some things simply don't get the form you intended them to....

Like in life so even in the garden things do not ever take the form you expect them to. So when I went out this morning, the plan was to trim this little guy to a rounded form.

2013-03-30 Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock'

One hour later, the little guy was trimmed, all right, but round?! Well, let's see what happens with the little guy after some time...

In all cases, I removed all dried branches (or those I actually saw), which can't be a bad thing, can it?!

Nutella cupcakes - The new diversion

Nutella is my favorite chocolate (yes, you are reading right, you all chocolate snobs...) and Nutella muffins are indeed very good and smooth things. Frosting is also one of my favourite things. And what could then be better than mixing those two together?! So today, Nutella cupcakes came to life for the first (but very likely not the last) time.
Followed the egg free recipe from my friend and my traditional "healthy" (yeah, right) version of cream cheese frosting and here was the result... :O)

Nutella cupcakes 2013-03-24

 And when we were just full as eggs, we just had to chunk in some additional frosting, just to make sure we were not going to get a too low blood sugar level or something....

ISO hell

Ok, now all my Madeira pictures went bad as I happened to configure the ISO value to something basically wrong. So now, remember this:

Sunny day value         ISO 50 - ISO 64
Regular value              ISO 100
Night value from         ISO 400 onward

Again, remember this!