sorry i´m a bit late, but i´m still down with the flu, quite nasty and persistent.
but it wasn´t too much work to draw the winners, as i had printed out the comments daily as they came in… because actually i love the hat-drawing method (cheating: i took a bowl…;)) much better than the random generator. simply because it is so hard for me to count along in the comments, if they are not numbered (and they aren´t)… what to do with somebody who made a second comment because she forgot something in the first? too much attention to pay… i think the hat/bowl is the easier way…

so here we go… 2 ladies from usa, and one from italy… gladly the postal fees for international sendings went down at the beginning of the year… so i will cram pack the envelopes up to as much as possible!!
the owoh winners will get an email and are asked to respond within 48 hours, otherwise i will have to make a new drawing…
(please give me a few more days to send the stuff out, as i´m not yet feeling well…)
hope you have fun with the prizes and it would be great to see what you did with the braille paper – always looking for inspiration!

i´ve got the flu… resting in bed and coughing…
maybe the drawing of OWOH will have to wait a bit until i feel better… sorry!

mich hats erwischt – ich liege flach …
mag sein, dass sich auch meine OWOH auslosung dadurch ein bisschen verzögert, sorry…

got these shadow stamps recently (bought them in angela cartwright´s etsy shop) and had to try them out… see my first card here.

these are the days when i can´t stay inside to create… i have to go and catch the last colors before winter comes…

dieser tage hält es mich nicht drinnen… muss unbedingt noch die letzten farben einfangen, bevor der winter kommt…

ein wahnsinnig schöner tag, gestern (und die vorhersage für heute ist ebenso…) – muss man sofort nutzen, denn schöne tage sind dieses jahr ja nicht so häufig…
ich machte mich wieder auf den weg mit der *kleinen* kamera (die große hat mein sohn dabei, den es heute in die berge gezogen hat…); aber man soll ja die qualität der bilder nicht nach der kamera beurteilen… *g* … speziell beim letzten bild hätte ich mir ein bisschen mehr tiefenschärfe gewünscht, aber ich kanns halt nicht besser;)

we had a wonderful autumn day yesterday (and forecast for today is the same…) – as we are not spoilt with sunny days this year, i immediately took my camera for a walk…

that´s how a bug sees the sun rise;)

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texture of a birch bark
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i took about 50 pictures of cow parsnip – i just love its umbels:)))

i had to photograph from below against the sky – so it was a lottery game to get good pictures.

the seeds are mostly fallen down meanwhile and i like how the rest looks like an assembly of many spider legs;)

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thistle

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evening primrose (oenothera biennis)

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that´s how it looks when the european spindle tree has lost its seed capsule

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i wish i had got this sharper… isn´t that structure just DIVINE?