Amanda has a prompt for us – Shadows – and you get Me at my best (;-D) in both pictures: In my forest and in the Sahara desert.
This photo challenge is alternately hosted each Friday by the bloggers:
Something to Ponder About and The Snow Melts Somewhere
Cee asks us to smile this week – Here’s one from me, last summer when I finally got away from the heat and drought in Skåne and reached the sweet, fresh air of Norrland and Lofoten. The best smile that year…
And the sweetie in the header, from Jokkmokk’s Market in Lappland, Sweden.
You can never get too many smiles in your life!
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” – Henry David Thoreau
Tina encourages us this week to go Wild! And, this time of the year I spend as much time as possible outdoors, in the wild, so my decision was easy – to go for my own neighborhood and use the most common meanings of the word Wild (according to Wikipedia) –
Wild animal – I met this lovely deer on my morning tour a couple of days ago. She noticed me of course, but waited patiently in the sunlit glade until I was gone.
Wilderness – a wild natural environment not significantly modified by human activity.
Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Represented in the header by a wild rose.
One of the most fascinating things in the wild is the metamorphosis of butterflies. Here some caterpillars of the small tortoiseshell, feeding on stinging nettles…
…but later developing into these beauties – Wild Wonders!
Finally, Wildness – the quality of being wild or untamed……easily recognizable even in domesticated animals – such as my dogs running and chasing each other like maniacs.
Would you like to go wild for a moment? Welcome to join in! Tag your entry ”Lens-Artists” so we can find you in the reader. And stay tuned for next week’s host, Patti, for challenge #49!
Spring is my favorite season, and early Spring mornings are my favorite hours of the day.
Everything is calm, but – nature is so very alive, vibrating with life.
The meadows bloom, the waters flow merrily in the streams.
I rejoice in the birds’ song, and feel the joy in every living thing…
I wish we could all feel that joy and contentment. Harmony. At least some moments every week. I know I am lucky to live in the middle of nature, but I also know that nature is the best healer for most things troubling our human life.
Go seek it – Harmony. If you have an open mind, you will find it. In Nature.
Enjoying each others’ company!
We set out in the early morning to enjoy the stillness and the bird song – I thought I might get some photos of the two boys together too…Totti hates the camera, but Milo tries to be
…complaisant. Not always succeeding, but, he helped checking out the bird houses …
…even if they were still empty, no guests arrived yet. A couple of weeks more is needed.
When spring arrives, they both need hair cuts often – but still get warm and thirsty.
Some advice from me – never turn your back on your motif…and never try to shoot without warning! Totti and Milo knocked me down and showed their best, wet and friendly approach…A very foggy lens emerged from this attack.
Here they are finally posing, after some hours of digging and running in muddy waters.
Well, which shot did you like best? My first favorite was the one of Milo alone – in the header. But after some hours…maybe the last one. After all, they are my sweeties!
Today we were out the whole day in the forest and on coming home, mum decided we had deserved a bone, both Milo and Me (Totti).
Well…we had a delicious one each, but after about 30 minutes, Milo made a major mistake…I watched him from my side of the garden:
The enemy flew in…two Magpies. Both first waited patiently while spying from a distance. Then they became more and more impertinent…and Milo, who is young and inexperienced, left his bone to take a pee. NEVER take a pee when you have been assigned a Bone!
He lost the last pieces of goodies inside…but soon gave up chasing the two birds –
But, I think Milo learned a lesson. I did not say anything, just kept gnarling my own bone… – ”Best learning is learning by doing. Or Not doing.” Quote, Totti.
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Crawl
For Dutch Goes the Photo this Tuesday – Crawl! I thought I had no photos of crawling creatures…but found these. I was looking for a snake shot of a Swedish viper. But No, did not find it…I hope a Galapagos Land Iguana is OK – at least when it is eating from a cactus. And the Swedish variety is a nice little spring frog.
And I could not refrain from giving you this human crawl as well…spotted in Switzerland some years ago…Enjoy!
My son found this little one when walking the path up to my door. Surely he is a bit too early on his way – the snail? February only.
He was so tiny, only about 3 millimeters, and still venturing out in this big world…on icy paths with an unwashed house. He ”looked” at me…
but, when I came too close with the camera, he silently steered away.
My son decided to pick him up and hide him under the garden bushes – out of sight from hungry little birds. Maybe we will meet again, on our way towards summer?
…no, I guess, nothing…
Leya 
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