after the Photokina 2012 Cologne, Germany

Sunset between Punta del Hidalgo and Bajamar, Tenerife, Canary Islands

One of Zanzibar's biggest foreign-exchange earners is seaweed (mwani), of which over ten thousand tons are exported annually to East Asia. The seaweed cultivation was introduced two decades ago as an income-generating project for local women. The seaweed is "planted" by tying it to ropes in the shallow intertidal zone of the lagoons. It is not an easy job, as the sacks of wet seaweed weight tens of kilos which have to be moved a few hundred meters before the seaweed is laid out on the sand to dry.

It was a cold and sunny day. Torino / Turin, Piemonte /Piedmont, Italia / Italy

Seen from the harbor of Stone Town (Mji Mkongwe), Zanzibar

This Peanut is bigger than my WHOLE head!

These pleasant little birds (finches) were quite prominent in my yard this summer. They are nearly as small as hummingbirds. I let these weeds grow in one area just for them.

I'm not an expert but, either it has been spending too much time on the couch, or, there are about to be more of them...

Turns out that Robins as well as many other birds I've seen this year love these sorts of trees.

He was on the wire fence - as if watching me watching birds in my yard. Toes curled like the fence wires.