Near to our hometown Oldenburg right beside the lake Bad Zwischenahner is the Park der Gärten, a great park which has been founded at a horticultural show. It's a very wonderful location we're visiting twice or more each year. Today we've been there again. They currently have a show integrating rooms and furnitures into the gardens.

It has been fun again, but this time with very good weather and the holiday too many people had the same idea like we had.

So we're looking forward to our next visits this year. During the summer vacation of our kids and another time with our neighbours when there's the illumination show again.

Until last Saturday everything has been ok with our animals. Beside Flo, the cat, Ben and Jerry are members of our family. Those both are male dwarf rabbits, living happily together in their enclosure.

So that Saturday we drove to the birthday party of Carmens brother when my mobile phone rang. Janina has been really excited. "Mom, dad, you have to come home immediately! One of the rabbits is not male."

And yep, the black one has gotten two little babies. The breeder made a mistake. Sadly both babies didn't survived, everything has been too unprepared. But now instead of Ben and Jerry we've got Amy and Ben.

Yesterday Ben has been castrated, we already planned this for both next week, when I've got holidays. Now both have to stay separated by a mesh for 6 weeks until everything is secure.

I'never been a real photographed, never had a (D)SLR. But I liked to take photos with my bridge camera, often close-ups of people who didn't recognized me. But since now about four month I've got my iPhone 4 - and it has a brilliant camera built-in. Sure, I had a smartphone and other mobiles with cameras before. But the high quality of the iPhone camera, together with the display and the available photo apps are pure fun.

So now I very often look around for interesting views, because I know I've got my equipment with me. And I like to modify those pictures, with Camera+, with TiltShiftGen, with PhotoShop Express.

The results? Sometimes strange, sometimes great, but always interesting experiences motivating for more experiments.

Some impressions of our first walk in Dangast this year. The weather is wonderful, so many people had the same idea. Sadly the water has been far away due to the tide. But that's why it's called tideland.

Today the Schloss Höfe Oldenburg opened, a large shopping mall. There have been many discussions before, because many people think it's too big for our inner city. But it looks really good with many interesting and new shops for Oldenburg. I like it.

Yesterday afternoon I watched Tron Legacy together with our younger daughter Vanessa. Two friends of mine who watched the movie before have been a bit disappointed. But I didn't expected too much, just good made entertainment for families. And that's exactly what we got. After watching the old Tron in 1983 the event yesterday has been a good continuation. My favorites have been the role of Quorra, a beautiful and mysterious being, and the soundrack by Draft Punk. OK, the part with Clus motivation and his speach in front of his forces have been a bit too much, here the topic has more potential. But hey, it's just a movie.

Btw, I once again recognized for me, that 3D is a nice effect. But it's neither an important stylistic device nor does the movie break without it. Maybe this will once be better when we've got real holographic cinemas.

Last Tuesday on my way back home from a customer I had the chance to have a quick stop at a very special car dealer near the route. This dealer - Tamsen - sells dreamcars, like Bentley, Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and naturally my favorite: Aston Martin.

So I took a look at some V8 Vantage, N420, DB9, DBS (both also as Volante), and Rapide. Sadly my preferred V12 Vantage hasn't been there. But I took place in the N420 and it fits like a glove. What a great feeling, together with the smell of the leather.

I don't think I'll ever own one, even the older ones are by far too expensive for my income. But there's still the dream ... *sigh*

Even without a mouse our cat Flo is interested in using the computer. Maybe he's controlling his territory using Google Maps.