I finally went back to the woods to shoot some new photos. I arrived just before 9 AM so the sun was already up, but I've been putting it off for long enough. The pictures are not as spectacular as last years, but there are a few I'll be putting up after I sort through them.

Hearing churchbells on this first eastermorning while walking in the woods is... strange. It's something I might've heard hundreds of years ago, and since there are no cars or people in sight I could imagine actually being almost a thousand years in the past. I'd walk back to the edge of the woods and look out over the medieval town with the churchtower clearly visible above the wooden houses. Easter mass is being held there and nearly everyone is there. Except for those two men walking up to me warily.
'Hey, sir,' they would say, 'why aren't you at church? And what's that in your hand?'
I'd look down at the camera in my hand and say something like: 'Oh, this? It's my digital camera. It makes pictures, look.'
I'd shoot a picture of the two gentlemen and show it to them on the LCD screen.
They'd be startled by me pointing the strange device at them making a clicking noise, but curiosity would win over panic and they'd take a look.
'It's magic!' they'd say, shocked.
'Naw, it's just technology' I'd reply dismissively.
'He's a witch!' one'd cry. 'Burn 'im! Burn the witch!' the other'd follow.

Well, fortunately the sight of littered plastic candy wrappers, the sounds of loud babbling people and the smells of car exhausts will remind me that I do indeed live in these glorious modern times