shots v Lengnau, Pieterlen, and Buren a/Aare Switzerland

have been dealing with jet lag [going to bed at 4 or 6AM- waking at 3 or 4PM] plus due to summer heat [which is like spring compared to louisiana] have been inside during the day- with all windows, doors and shutters shut, to keep the house cool- only venturing out in the evening. so i haven't been out much and haven't made many fotos.

day before yesterday there was a huge hailstorm... seemed like it lasted forever... and the hail was literally the size of mothballs! some bigger.

below:a shot out the front door where the hail landed.
yesterday, due to cabin fever... we finally went out around 5pm [it stays light until maybe 9.30 PM!] for a little drive and foto safari. i took about 4 cameras [2 film, 1 polaroid film, and my little digital] -all these were done w/ the small casio exilim...

below: a man in lengnau makes these windmills and puts them all around his house.
below: a field of flowers [and i saw some yellow squash] in Pieterlen where you can cut your own flowers and pay the farmer.
below: a shot of Buren on the Aare
below: another shot of Buren on the Aare
below: a field between lengnau and buren... rather dark but almost like a painting.
today we are headed to bern. i want to shoot some things there i haven't before. i've been coming to switzerland, and this region, for 15 years or so, and still haven't shot a lot of things is this area. there again, i have thousands of negatives, almost never make prints, so am not even sure what i have or haven't shot since 1992 or so. so many fotos, so little time...

i got some great shots with the old polaroid 210 land camera that uses b&w 'peel apart film' but havent scanned them yet. they'll go in the foto-mondo blog.

[c] 2007 doug duffey