birthay Xin-Feng's C-litter

Today they celebrate their 7th birthday, the remaining pups of our C-litter. Congratulations Cajou, Chow, Cheina, Castro, Ginger and Chimay!

A nice picture of our birthday girl Chimay:

visiting Demi and Endo

Today we went to Klaaswaal, where Demi (Xin-Feng's Demeter) lives with Ilone and Ben.

Ari, Chimay and Demi

Chimay

Chimay and Demi

Ari and Demi

Demi is always happy to see Frank

Ari and Chimay

Then we went to Gouda to visit Guido and Endo (Xin-Feng's Endo).

Endo is happy to see us

Endo curious

video

mushrooms

It is fall now, and I love it!
In the front garden were some ink caps (Coprinus comatus) in different stages of growth.

ink cap popping up

now you see it is a kind of mushroom

deceasing ink cap

a picture of Ari

I am so happy, I got a very early birthday present :-)
A Sony compact camera, it can nearly do as much as my big camera, even a bit more in some ways. But a lot smaller, so easier take with me.
Here my first try, inside, with flash. Not bad at all.

opening of Villa Ari

Villa Ari is all finished, time to celebrate!

Together with Marijke and Frans,

Val and Ro

Frans came up with "Villa Ari" some time ago,
so he did the official opening

Villa Ari

a toast on the gardenhouse... oh no, the villa ;-)

We dined together, the women inside, it was a bit too cold outside, and the men in the villa.

And the men were having a good time with the beertender nearby!

Chimay rather stays outside.

Ari in his villa...

and by the way, I accidently took a picture of myself today ;-)