Fruit trees planted

It took us almost the whole week-end to plant our new 12 fruit trees in our meadow with my father-in-law. Completely exhausted :-) But happy!

Above the list of the fruit tree names we have planted:

  1. Plum tree – Prunus domestica ‘Quetsche d’Alsace
  2. Mirabelle – Prunus syriaca ‘Mirabelle de Nancy’
  3. Apple tree – Malus ‘Granny Smith’
  4. Apple tree – Malus ‘Golden Delicious’
  5. Pear tree – Pyrus communis ‘Williams Bon Chrétien’
  6. Pear tree – Pyrus communis ‘Conference’
  7. Cherry – Prunus avium ‘Burlat’
  8. Cherry – Prunus avium ‘Géant Hedelfinger’
  9. Apple tree only for pollination – Malus ‘Evereste’
  10. Walnut – Juglans regia ‘Franquette’
  11. Hazel – Corylus avellana ‘Merveille de Bollwiller’
  12. Chestnut – Castenea sativa ‘Marigoule’

We were lucky as it was a perfect week-end for planting: sunny and about 10°C!

Some figures about 2010

On this blog:

  • 1.3 million pageviews in 2010 (cumulated since March 2004: 6.7 million pageviews)
  • and 79 posts (cumulated since March 2004: 1’221 posts)

On SmugMug:

  • 800’000 unique views in 2010
  • and more than 1.5 million in the last 2 years

I feel very comfortable now with my technical current setup:

Saint Barth and its 101 yachts…

Very high season in St Barth now. Actually the period almost all St Barth lovers would not be on the island, as it’s time for “show off” and “celebrities”.

Concentration of big yachts is just crazy now there, about 100 yachts (and no small ones) are present near the Gustavia harbor. And grouped outside the harbor, as the swell is very strong :-)

(From MarineTraffic.com)

Flickr users, you feel uncomfortable? …

…I understand ;-) Was the same for me since now already 2 years, when I decided to move from Flickr to SmugMug. The reasons for this change in December 2008 were listed in detail in this post, but as a summary, I recap my points from 2008 that are more and more valid to my understanding…

Why I left Flickr?

  • The huge functional differences between Flickr and SmugMug
  • The lack of innovation and service updates at Flickr. In the last months, nothing happened at Flickr. SmugMug is principally launching new functions and testing new ideas each month!
  • I was impacted by all the controversies and censorship stories (Thomas Hawk is relating some of them here and here) around Yahoo!/Flickr.

When you follow a bit the Flickr story, you have for sure heard that mainly the whole team and founders have left Yahoo now…

So now the "good news" for you if you’d like to leave Flickr is that the migration to SmugMug is quite easy (I’ve done it for 2 years). And refugees are definitely welcome in the SmugMug family ;-)

Have a look at the special SmugMug offer for you (20% discount)!

As a SmugMug user since now 2 years, I personally strongly recommend their service, really great!

(I’m not affiliated in any manner with SmugMug, excepted as a paying *happy* customer ;-)

This week-end…

We had a cool lunch at JYS (Chef: Jean-Yves Schillinger, 1* Michelin) in Colmar, which is really a very nice town during this Christmas time. I had specially a super entree, 3 eggs with a simple potatoes’ puree for strengthening the flavor of the truffle :-)

A stroll in the old city.

And this evening, a nice colored sunset!