Not too bad this morning, cool but with a promise of sun, although I am not sure if I will go places and see things. Yesterday I made an effort, but somehow the energy was not with me. I made my way across the road to the stables and the chicken run. There were no horses in the stables and their lady was cleaning out the stables, so no luck with photos.

I moved onto the pond next to the stables. There were some ducks and geese there and would have made great photos, had I taken my zoom lens with me. I only had the normal lens, so got more of the wire fence in the photo that what was behind it. The chickens had been move to the other side of the field and my energy was not with me to walk uphill.

However there were cows and I noticed the farmer had put a cow bell around their necks. This is a sort of Swiss thing, although there were so many complaints about the ding dong noise that they are becoming rare. However, this farmer decided to know where he cows were when munching their grassy meals. Note the cow does not have horns, she never knew that she could have horns. The buds are removed when they are still calves. There is now a small movement in Switezerland to let the cows have their horns again and signatures are being collected for a referendum. I will definitely sign. I want my cows to be rehorned, and of course it makes much better photos.

And so my walk was a short thing, about 40 minutes and I returned home with my few photos.

I have an app on my iStuff called macprime which is the Swiss Apple portal. It is not officially from Apple, but keeps you up to date on what is going on in the Apple world. I would have included the link, but mine is .ch which means only for the Swiss, although somewhere it probably exists for other countries. It informed me that there is a new Apple programme calle High Sierra that can now be downloaded, so that kept me busy yesterday, although it runs so smoothly on my Mac Computer I only had to look in now and again. When you have it, you go through the various queries about how you would like your Cloud to be organised. I did not actually want a cloud, but it seems there are certain things that have to be floating around in a cloud, one being your e-mails.

I confused my Apple computer and it told me that there was no deal with important stuff working with a cloud. I had to revise my choices and now I am back in the cloud. At the same time Mr. Swiss updated his Apple computer as well, so there were a few moments of silence at home. We are now both in the High Sierra. Apple always name their programmes with American mountains.

Taking a closer look at the scaffolding surrounding my home yesterday, I noticed that it is slowly becoming a place of refuge for various insects. This one had spun its web betweem the angle of the iron bars and was feeling quite comfortable. It was preparing  its lunch when I took the photo.

And now to move on. Looks like another apple tart day today from the shape of the apples on the tree. Enjoy the day, look after your computers and be happy. You might have an update somewhere that you would love to upload.

First thing in the morning after I stop hugging my bed is to see what the sky is doing. Today it seems that we had some identified objects circling above us, although they are now gone, but they left their traces. We are on one of the main routes from Zürich airport towards Geneva and other places even further.

Before we moved to where we are now we lived on the third floor of a block of appartments. We had a good view from the kitchen window towards Zürich, and I could see the planes rising in the morning and making their way. In those days digi cameras were still unknown, and I was busy getting the kids off to school to have time for photos. It was interesting to see them taking off and in descent. Now they just fly overhead. I flew once a year to London from Zürich to visit my dad and I knew the route exactly. I even saw our small town of Solothurn from the plane as it flew parallel to the Jura mountains.

The days of my regular flying trips are now over and I just watch from the garden to the sky.

Otherwise life is not so adventurous at the moment. After my walk through the surrounds looking for Autumn, I spent yesterday at home  looking at my book Doctor Sleep the No. 2 in the Shining series. I had a bit of a problem getting into it, but am now on my way. I first had to sort out who is who, as the characters in the first story are now grown up and the little boy is now a man, still with the shining gift, but it can also be a problem.

Today is the day of week-end shopping and Mr. Swiss and I have already composed our cloud list. These computer clouds are OK if you can use them because you want to, but now and again they are forced on you. Yesterday I was going through my mails on my iPad, which is Apple. It serves my purpose when I am sitting in an armchair with nothing  better to do. They also have a spam mail section and I notice a notification from something called onedrive in Windows. They notified that 6 of my photos had now been uploaded. I have never ever allowed Windows to upload my photos so I investigated. My photos are all on a cloud from Flickr and that is OK, because I have everything under control more or less – you never know.

Now this onedrive is interfering. I had a quick consultation with Mr. Swiss who said it is rubbish and we checked on my computer. I do have a onedrive and now and again it wants me to register me there, but I refuse. I have now disabled it, and it no longer exists on my computer. Why are they always forcing stuff on us that we do not want. Clouds are OK for shopping lists and my 18,000 photos but because I want it and not because someone somewhere in a cyber world is forcing me to use it.

However my computer world is now organised and I will be making the supermarket insecure this morning with my iPhone camera and shopping list. Keep safe, and be careful of the clouds, they are everywhere.

A parting photo from my physalis in the garden. I decided to get one as I read that they like to spread, go forth and multiply. This year it is not so special, but the organge lanterns each contain a seed, so who knows. I may have a garden full next year.

A misty morning with a nip in the air as my mum always said, although London “nips” were not so clean as the Swiss nips.  It can only get better, although we were told by the weather gods that we will be getting a few offshoots from hurricaine Maria, but nothing tragic. Some higher winds than normal, but warm so no big deal.

Yesterday I did it, I broke out and escaped, although with a small delay. I was prepared with my jacket when Mr. Swiss told me temperatures were around 25° in the sun. I was glad so changed again into something more appropriate and then I set off in the search of Autumn.

As I walked down the slope to the river I turned and noticed that the clouds were doing me a favour hanging over the Jura mountains, so I stopped for a photo. It was at least a month, if not two, that I had ventured into the unknown. Could I still do it was the unanswered question. I could, although I noticed I was not as fit as I used to be, with a few shaky moments, hoping not to slip on a leaf from a tree.

I eventually reached the river bank, turned left and made my way to my first bench.

I saw a few signs of Autumn, but nothing spectacular. Some trees perform earlier than others. The path was not covered in leaves and the trees were still holding on. Mr. Swiss was right about the weather, it was comparable to a summer day and very hot in the sun which was everywhere.

The usual river bank cow collection was there, but were more interested in grazing the last remains of the grass before being condemned to their stables throughout Winter. The crane in the background did not actualy suit the pastoral surroundings, but up on the hill is our village and one of the houses is being demilished to make way for a new appartment construction. Even the country is not protected from human progress. I have discovered that cranes can also make interesting photos, especially since our home has been a building zone for the past months.

I eventually reached my bench when after a while I was joined by a colleague I had not seen for some time. Even on lonely river banks you have a chance meeting.  I deicided to move on and climbed the steps to the top of the hill. The cows joined me, especially as the next bench was placed next to their canteen.

There was no silence of the lambs, and I could hear sheep bleating in the background. There were always sheep on the neighbouring meadow, but they disappeared some time during the year and now they were back, or perhaps they were new arrivals. The famer had now shifted the sheep barn further down the river and they were no longer within camera range. He had even planted a few new trees where the barn used to be. It was time to go home in any case. I enjoyed the walk, but noticed that half an hour is now really my limit. I managed to refill my photo album with some new material.

And now something which I have noticed lately on my blogging pages. I really appreciate your comments on my written words, they inspire me to continue and it is a way of getting to know each other. I have been blogging for almost 10 years. My beginnings were humble – WordPress was not exactly waiting for me. However, I persevered and one day I got followers. I now have many followers and I love you all. Everyone is welcome to pass their comments and I have got to know many.

However, something bothers me lately. I receive a comment, which I must approve, because it is a “new arrival” on my blog. This is good, I love meeting new people. There are some visitors that I do not understand. They make a “like” on my page and add a comment with a link “Please visit my blog” and that is all. I find that a little lazy. They make no attempt to say anything more, just visit my blog. I naturally do not visit their blog and their entry either disappears into the trash or spam, according to my mood. If this is all you can manage as a comment then you are in the wrong place with me. I built up my site with patience and realised that Angloswiss could not be built in a day. I have been writing for many years. I now have 6,500 + followers, many that I can really call online friends. They did not click a like and say follow me, they supported me with their comments and I visit their blogs out of interest. I might tell Mr. Swiss to follow me when we are shopping, but I know him quite well.

And now I will move on. There is a silence of the builders, which is always positive. They are now probably having their morning break, although paint drying does not make a noise.

See you around, enjoy the day let’s write, or just read what is written, which is also very good.