Our first primrose! The temperature is back down to freezing today, but the first tiny flowers are appearing. Thanks so much for the comments on my aquarium pictures. Very encouraging.

Partial Eclipse - Too late 2011-01-04 Today, shortly after dawn (i.e. starting 08:05) there was a partial eclipse of the sun in Vienna - and the sky was clear. But I was a tad late. This was supposed to be a shot of the eclipse, but it looks like I just missed it. At first I thought the bluish cresent must be the moon, but I can't make that work with the geometry - so it is probably just a lens artifact. I was worried about hurting the camera, so I shot very fast and very small, and then pulled the picture up. Many thanks for your comments on my cemetery shot yesterday - I should have gone back early this morning to shoot with the sun facing the graves rather than behind them. Oh well.