Andreas Weber

@andreasweber.bsky.social

bonsai grower and photographer, cycling into nature

I'm usually a big fan of our crows, they're smart, funny and social. But this bird makes me consider violence ... Since about 6 a.m. it has been sitting in a tree maybe 100 m from my window and with few breaks during the day went "caw, caw, caw, caw, CAW, caw ... caw, caw, cawcaw, caw, caw, ..."

Carrion crow cawing in an European hornbeam tree.

So it turns out 5 m of lights don't get you all that far if you insist on wrapping a bonsai in an orderly fashion (spiraling in and out along the branches from base to tip and back) ... 😬 Guess next time I'll try jumping from branch to branch, where possible to hide the wire in the foliage. 🙄

Ficus benjamina bonsai with a wide, domed canopy, some of it's lower branches wrapped with a chain of tiny LED lights that illuminate the root base and lower trunk.

As the last years,spring this year again sprung early. But not only are the spring flowers out in force (winter aconite, snowdrops, snowflakes and already crocuses) - the Christmas roses felt they should do an encore as well ...

Backlit blossoms of Helleborus niger, the Christmas rose

A cool thing about cruising through nature on a bike is that animals don't get spooked easily. I came from that gravel path far right, turned into this bridge and passed that buzzard at less than two meters. It started to open its wings when I was closest, but then I was already receding again ...

Common buzzard [Buteo buteo] on the steel railing of a bridge connecting forest paths across a highway