More photos on candy. This time on candy that I love, Bassett's winegums. I could eat them everyday if I allowed myself to do it. For obvious health reason I try to keep my intake to a minimum and I only buy them in tax-free shops while traveling. These photos I took recently after a trip to Belgrade.

I don't have a favorite color, but I don't like the black ones as much as the others.

Pictures have had their whitebalance adjusted

Somebody has spray painted (what I assume is) two happy ghosts on an electrical cabinet. I think they are cute, so I had to photograph them. The cabinet is place in the middle of the town, but I don't think many have seen the painting because it's facing away from the major streets it's close by. I only saw it because I like to walk around all over and look for photo opportunities.

The same photo, only cut differently.

This photograph was taken long after I found the painting. I wanted to wait until I had the time to photograph it while it was dark outside. I think I did the right choice. This photo was taken with a 13 seconds exposure time and it turned out great. I like the lightning and the colors.

Sometimes bad light conditions can work in my favor. The bad lightning this month have allowed me to be standing next to the sea with my camera and taking photos with exposure times between 1 to 5 seconds. The result you can see below. All the waves hitting the rocks created a fog like effect.

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At the end of my recent afternoon walk, I spotted a Jackdaw that wasn't to concerned about me standing close to it. Which gave me the opportunity to take a few close-ups on it.

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A few photos from my recent afternoon walk on what I'm guessing are European Greenfinchs.

A male European Greenfinch.

A female European Greenfinch.

More photos from my recent afternoon walk. This time on one of the most common birds were I live - the House Sparrows.

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A few photos from my recent afternoon walk. These shows what I believe are Fieldfare birds.

In case you are wondering, the blue thing in the background is a plastic bag that were stuck in the tree.

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One recent gray afternoon I went out to see if I could find any birds in the tree to photographs. I managed to find four different kinds of birds and I will post the pictures in four separate posts.

I wanted to first make this little introduction post because of what the photographs have in common. They were taken during November when the sky was gray and that means that I didn't have that much light to work with. The photographs are a little grainy and have boring white/gray backgrounds. I can only hope that I one day will have the opportunity to take similar or better photos during nicer weather.

This autumn I decided to fill up my balcony box with more than just spruce spray. I added four 1-up mushrooms.

The mushrooms are made from the same plastic pearls as the refrigerator magnets and earlier balcony box decoration. I choose to use non-canon colors, because I wanted something that would fit the season.

I have been working a little on my balcony recently. Tidied up, put out some new flowers and decorated my balcony box. I'll post a picture on my balcony box in a later post (The decorations deserve their own post). Just like last year I have bought some Heather plants, but to add a little variation, I also bought a "decorative cabbage" plant.

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It is about time I show off some more of the vegetables that were growing on my balcony this summer. I already showed off a cucumber and this time it will be one of my least favorite vegetable - the Tomato. It is unfortunate that I don't like the taste of them because they are very easy to grow.

After I replanted the Dumb Cane, replanted my Dwarf Umbrella Tree in the Dumb Cane's old pot and moved it from the kitchen to the bedroom.

Some months ago I started to find the stems of my Dumb Cane falling over one by one. For some reason the stems had lost all their roots. I picked them up and placed them in cups of water, hoping that they would grow new roots. After a few weeks some the stems had healthy roots growing out of them. I took two of the stems with roots and replanted them in a pot. I'm not sure why the stems lost their roots, but I do know that the stems looked better than ever after a few weeks in water. So I'm guessing that I need to make sure the soil is constantly moist to make sure the stems never loses their roots again.

It not often that I happen see a Woodpecker and I never thought I would see one outside my apartment. So when I saw this Great Spotted Woodpecker I ran outside and started to snap photographs.

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