This week’s photo challenge is called Room – for us to interpret the way we feel. A room for me to love, must contain flowers and plants and it must contain books. As books and humidity don’t go that well together, my real dream will never come true. There will have to be at least two rooms… But, here’s a dream medley, finished off with what comes closest – in my home.
Books are of course essential in my room
And flowers – orchids are not wrong…
…colours and shapes…
…and divine compositions…
…in a warm stillness.
I admire people who don’t tear down buildings – but recreate. This is the old railwaystaion hall in Madrid.
Leya 
I know your heart is filled with warmness and kindness.
Now that I will remember and treasure – thank you for your kind words!
I love your beautiful interpretation of room!
Thank you, Amy! I wanted to somehow show the empty room in my heart too.
This post touched me deeply. So sorry about Mille.
Thank you for commenting – I miss him so much.
Lovely last photo. I have a special album for my special dog friends. Each has an own half of the album. From baby up to the last moments! Your orchids are lovely. Are they the new season ones?
Good idea with albums. They are not all my orchids, they are in Madeira!
Still beautiful
Books, flowers and plants…works for me!
janet
You’re welcome over for a chat any time!
Did I know you’re an orchid fanatic …? If I did, I’d forgotten. How wonderful they are ! 🙂
Wow, M.R. …I am a fanatic there…even though I just hate fanatics in every sense…
Of course I knew you to be a cattleya fanatic – I must have briefly lost my senses there.
😦
He, he, then you’re just like me…And, It’s Mille in the last picture
Mille will be getting twice the love, now …
Sugar. Got it wrong. Deepest apologies. I’;m a thoughtlessly stupid old fart. 😦
And a very loveable one too…love your book! This weekend i will be reading again! I’m planning a review in our Swedish book magazine – in Swedish. I read what good reviews you had from blogger friends – I couldn’t match that, so I’ll go for Swedish.
Fair enough. Comme tu veux. I’d still love to see it, if only to sight a review of it in another language, please, Ann Christine …
Of course!
This touched me deeply. It is never easy to lose our furry family members! Your summer room outdoors sounds most divine! I think books multiply when we are not looking, turning up in the oddest of places! 🙂 I couldn’t have bought ANOTHER BOOK!!
I will miss him forever. I sit looking at pictures over the years and little movie clips of his ”specialties” like fishing bubbles, hunting cones, jumping like a hare and so on…Crying. And we used to sit out there under the vines, him by my side as always. Poor Totti never really had a chance to come close. But now he can! He is such a sweet guy. Laid back and calm. They were each others opposites.
Lovely post, Ann Christine. I enjoyed all your photos so much. 🙂
Thank you so much, Sylvia!
Your summer room looks gorgeous, a perfect reading spot….but why without Mille? Have I missed something….
Him. He’s gone, my boy. 9 May we lost him. It came so sudden that he fell ill and there was nothing to do. His pancreas stopped working insulin and he got diabetes. In one and a half week he was gone. But he went away here, at home, in my arms. https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/
I’m so sorry Anna Christine, and it sounds as though it was very sudden. What a beautiful boy he was, and how you will miss him in your reading room this summer. Your goodbye was beautiful and brought tears to my eyes….and of course had me looking over at Maisie, our old lady 🙂
Recognise the old railway station in Madrid. I’m on your page regarding books!
I thought so!
Books in every room except bathroom, and in the hall and landing as well! I feel uncomfortable if I walk into a house with no books……
Agree – I don’t have any friends without books in their home. Mostly they have them everywhere…just like me – and you! The worst thing happened when we were moving our school to another building – with no room for my built up library. I had to even through away books…couldn’t keep them all and yet I handed out to my students and friends and everyone…That was a tough decision.