Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: What Is Beautiful To You

I know this is too much…too many pictures – but so many things are beautiful to me. Cee’s challenge this week can only touch a tiny piece of beauty in the World and in Nature. What is beautiful to you? Join in and find more beauty here.

I will start and end with my fondest beauties, forests/trees and flowers/plants. Then, a gallery of some more…

Flowers

Flowers

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sense of Touch

For Cee this week – Sense of Touch.

Join in and let us know what you prefer!

Fur…dogs, cats, sheep…

Skrållan, Totti and Belezza or Bronzone in my lap

Smooth stones or stone walls…

Smooth, weathered wood…

The soft, silken shell hiding the magnolia bud…

Travel theme: Dogs

Ailsa – this must be one of my absolute favourite themes…Dogs! My faithful companions through life. Please join in – we cannot get enough of faithful life companions!

Here are some of the dogs who met me, too – of which some still are my great friends.

Spain – Les Pyrenées

This lovely dog was chained to his

This lovely dog was chained to his ”house”. This is forbidden in Sweden.

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Having great fun…but then…

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Greyfriars Bobby, Scotland

New Zealand, Lonely Dog

Lonely Dog

Tibet – taking good care of their animals and pets

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I once had a Bearded Collie – looking exactly like Seonaid Green’s beautiful girl…

…Maisie – Edinburgh, Scotland

Finally my own treasures, and favourite photos of …

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Mille in ”vitsippsbacken” and Totti as a puppy

Bonebreakers Giardiniere

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sense of Seeing

So, there was a slight misunderstanding of Cee’s challenge…from my part. Hopefully I can repair that in the following challenges! Why not join in yourself!

Everything in Nature I love seeing – and the habits are …hiking, using binoculars and camera.

Indoors – I have moved nature inside my house. Today I have 171 pot plants.

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Hiking is essential – preferably with my children and my dog.

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Autumn will soon be here now – hopefully it will be a colourful one this year.

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Spring is my favourite season. Maybe because my favourite colour is green.

Snowy Silence

Strangely enough, It happened to be the winter pictures I liked to see most of today.

My favourite – Robin – sitting outside my window.

Sweet Painted Ladies – Sgraffito Part II

Guarda and Ardez – pearls of Engadin

These two genuine villages belong to the area of Engadin in Switzerland- stretching from the Maloja pass to Zernez. More about them and the technique in sgraffito I.

Ardez is the other painted houses’ village using the sgraffito technique –

Maybe not as beautiful as Guarda, but let’s take a closer look at the details…

I loved their way of doing this! Carefully put together, leaving the window clear.

Water fountains in every open area. And, the windows of course.

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Then, walking along the main street, this house really stood out from the others…

Some of the paintings want a restoration, but for the most part they are well preserved.