One major thing had happend in my life outside the photography beetween the previous image in this gallery and this one: I have bought a new house, the first in my life. So, when I have unpacked my photo gear I have tried my only digital camera on the huge frog sitting on the external wall. To my suprise, the result was barely visible, very cloudy, almost white image. It was a night time and I used external flash so I tried different setups thinking about overexposure due to flash light be too strong... no way. It turned out to be a common problem with Sony CCD sensors. You can find the complete description here:

Sony CCD problem

My camera's symptoms were somewhat different: all the new images were as desribed above, but it still was capable of taking movies with no degradation in quality.

...story continued under the next picture...

This is the last image taken with repaired camera, the view from my office's window.