More of the Same

Rowan tree

 I'm still collecting autumn leaves on my daily walks - "hands on" as well as with the camera...

Besides maintaining my park bench installation, I also made a temporary arrangement on a family grave in the cemetery - the flowerbed on it being bare at the moment, waiting for its "official" winter decorations. (I should perhaps add that it's my own great-grandparents' grave... I'm not haunting those belonging to strangers!)

I also took home some leaves, pressed them over night (in a newspaper, under heavy books), and used those for a decoration on the inside of the door to my flat - using a combination of fridge magnets and glue-tack to attach them. (It's a "security door" so beneath a fake layer imitating wood, it's metal.)

Autumn Continues

 

The temperature dropped rather drastically yesterday. While it was sunny in the daytime I took the opportunity to remove the plastic floor mats from my balcony - newly "washed" by a night of heavy rain, so hung them on the railing for a while, and then rolled them up and took them in to dry in my bathroom for a day or two before I take them down to the basement for winter storage... (Also made a bit of an effort to sweep/mop the balcony floor after, although the result of that is not likely to last very long...) 

Before I went to bed last night, the outdoors temperature had dropped all the way down to +2°C (35°F), so then I also hastened to  take in my two geranium plants, which were the two flowering plants I had left out there. Probably a good thing that I did, because this morning the lawns outside were covered with frost (for the first time this season).

This afternoon, I once again passed by the bench where I made my little "autumn collage" the other day. Rain and wind had now removed one more leaf and the chestnut on top of it. I decided to replace them! (We have a saying in Swedish that goes something like "you don't have more fun than you create yourself"...)

Nature's Own Artwork

Yesterday (Friday) I felt no need to pick and arrange leaves for photos - the wind and the rain had taken care of that and had created their own artwork on the ground...

Much to my amazement, my own Park Bench Art was also still there, only with some raindrops added compared to the day before! (cf. previous post)...

Temporary Autumn Collage

 

September on the whole was unusually mild, and there is still quite a lot of greens dominating in the trees - but the variety in colour is increasing. On my walk around the old cemetery the other day (late Wednesday afternoon) I picked up a few freshly fallen horse chestnuts and some colourful maple leaves from the ground, thinking I might make something of them back home. Got a bit difficult to carry them all with my bare hands, though (the outer shells of horse chestnuts are very prickly!) so changed my mind along the way, and decided to just make a temporary art installation of them on a park bench, and take photos instead... ;-) 

I left them on the bench like that (2nd photo), counting on more wind and rain over night to wash/blow them away. So was very surprised when I passed the same spot again yesterday afternoon (after a rainy night, followed by a sunny day) to still find the collage composition changed only by the removal of one leaf:

 

Blogger Commenting Issues

It's been driving me half crazy lately that I've not been able to figure out why it's become increasingly difficult, and lately even downright impossible for me to log in to comment on certain Blogger blogs - while on others I've either had less problems, or none at all. 

The variations of the problem I've experienced from one blog to another still puzzle me; but it seems I may now have found a remedy: After a bit of googling this evening, I came across the tip that the problem may be in the "cookies" settings of one's browser. This made me think, as I'm in the habit of using different browsers for my two blogs that I have on different Google accounts (to avoid having to log in and out all the time). And from my other blog (Greetings from the Past, see link in the sidebar) I can't recall having had the same problem.

For this blog my standard browser is Firefox; so I went to to my Firefox settings, typed "cookies" in the search box, and found that I had the settings marked in blue below - but that there were other options that I could try.

 
I started by changing my setting to just:

 

... and that actually seems to have been enough to get me back to "logged in" status in the comment section on some blogs where I've recently been having problems.

I'm sharing this here partly for my own memory; but also hoping it might help others who have been experiencing the same (or similar) issues.

AI created image for "tracking cookies" (LOL)