FMTSO: A Mystery

I was on my way home from town last Saturday,
when I suddenly saw this rather unusual sight:

Actually, I first met the creature face-on, but it took me a second or two to take in what I was looking at, turn round, and get the camera out of its bag… And by then, I only saw the back of it…

Another second or two to make the decision that even though it was going in the opposite direction from where I had intended to go, I just had to follow and see where it was going!

Perhaps to McD for a burger?!
No… It turned left around the corner.
I almost lost sight of it for a while,
but then I spotted it again… 

…headed for the new playground in the Town Park.
Well, I guess that makes as much sense as anything!

 

I wonder what the children were thinking?
(I wasn’t close enough to hear any conversation.)

For me, seeing a troll brought back memories.

When I was four years old, my mum enrolled me in an outdoors playgroup called “Troll School”…

She left me there, in the wild woods with a bunch of people I’d never met before, and then out came a TROLL… Eeek!

Well, luckily it turned out to be a rather nice one, bringing us ginger biscuits if memory serves me right (and it probably does, because why would I make that up?)

But I still remember being scared when the troll first appeared!

 

Maybe that’s why (54 years later) I found myself still lacking courage to just walk up to this troll and ask WHAT exactly it was doing in Town this Saturday in October.

However, I did not have to return home still wondering.
I found the answer to the mystery on the playground noticeboard: The Occasion was a Book Release.

The book title: “Jens and the Tree where the Echo lives”.
Jens is a boy’s name so it seems the troll was a little boy troll (even though I could have sworn it to be a girl… but who knows with trolls!) 

It seems the author and the illustrator of the book were both visiting our town for a couple of hours this Saturday, selling and signing books in a building near the town park.

Apparently the troll got tired of just waiting around, and decided to go out for a stroll around town instead… :D

For Friday My Town Shoot Out – A Mystery

 

 

Mandarin Orange Monday: Rowan Berries

Sometimes it’s hard to improve on Nature’s perfection…

Okay, what were these supposed to be, again…?
Oh yes – rowan berries! (LOL)
Here’s the tree:

Playing around for…

Shadow Shot Sunday: Photographer’s Shadow

tall shadow watches
the golden leaves one by one
dropping to the ground

October Skies

All photos in this post are from the last ten days or so.
October so far has been mostly sunny.

The first two shots were shot around 4 pm, directly against the sun, very low over the horizon that time of day now. 

 

Actually it does not rise very high even at midday now:

 

Some days, not a cloud to be seen in the sky:

 

Other days, it’s the sun that goes into hiding:

 

Sunset clouds from my balcony (6 pm on October 11th):

 

And morning mist lifting the next day around 8:15
(as seen from my kitchen window):

 

Skywatch/Treewatch Friday

After a cloudy/rainy week, we had an amazing blue sky again today. And still some leaves left on the trees… :)

 

Skywatch Friday