Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: My Favourite Things, Verse Two

22 januari, 201527 januari, 2015 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

For Cee – sleighbells and wild geese are some of my favourite things.

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels, Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings, These are a few of my favorite things.

Grandfather’s horses used these bells. Sleigh bells? I love the sound and the worn leather. We’re fortunate enough to have kept them, even if we don’t use them. I knew they were down in the cellar, and I found them in grandmother’s old rocking chair.

Wild geese and cranes early in the morning at Hornborgasjön.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: You are my sunshine chorus

15 januari, 201515 januari, 2015 / Leya / 5 kommentarer

For Cee – You are my sunshine!

A try to illustrate the chorus-

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine you make me happy when skies are gray you’ll never know dear, how much I love you, please don’t take my sunshine away.

And thank you for being featured in Industrial!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Industrial

31 december, 20146 januari, 2015 / Leya / 12 kommentarer

For Cee’s Industrial, this lime industry is about one kilometre from my home.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Cities and City-structures

24 december, 201424 december, 2014 / Leya / 8 kommentarer

Barcelona is a famous city – and many visit every day. Gaudí stands out of course, but there are also modern structures worth a view. Go to Cee for more!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Landscapes or Seascapes

18 december, 201422 december, 2014 / Leya / 10 kommentarer

From Ostia Antica we went by train to the sea. I hadn’t expected anything special really, but we had a lovely walk. Here, two afternoon seascapes for Cee’s Challenge.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bridges

9 december, 201422 december, 2014 / Leya / 11 kommentarer

Bridges – Night and day, they are all in Rome. The Vatican, Castel S. Angelo and Unknown…

For more bridges, go to Cee – click here.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Joints and/or Things You Enjoy

29 november, 201429 november, 2014 / Leya / 7 kommentarer

First of all I would like to thank you, Cee, for being featured last week! I’m honoured!

This week is a bit more grim…for Joints I cannot stop thinking of my visit to Rome and the Crypt of the Capuchins.

My reaction on entering this ossuary, was at first a bit violent…but after walking the thirty metre long corridor with all niches decorated with human bones and skulls, the hanging lamps made of vertebrae and whole skeletons standing watch – I got used to it and could almost admire the fantastic patterns once made by the monks. I read somewhere that the bones of about 4000 monks were used to build this scenery, starting in the 17th century and finished not until the end of the 19th century.

”What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.” This is the memento mori written down here, in three languages.

As no one was allowed to take photos, I bought some cards and photographed them instead. This is the Crypt of Skulls.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Doors, Door Knobs and Handles

20 november, 2014 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

I love doors and everything on them…so for Cee’s challenge, I have some Roman doors. All collected two weeks ago.

Big enough for a car

The Lateran…

…close-up

S.t Peter’s

Porta Sancta

Inner court

Below street level…?

How many keys do you need?

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Vehicle Details

13 november, 201413 november, 2014 / Leya / 20 kommentarer

I’m not sure if this will pass…vehicle details for Cee, but, being so small and well kept I think it’s a detail of its own – a real gem.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bark or Leaves

4 november, 20144 november, 2014 / Leya / 9 kommentarer

From Ostia Antica are my photos for Cee’s Challenge, Bark or Leaves. It fascinates me how well they melt together – the old ruins and the trees. The bark of those pine trees seem to continue into the man made work, and the lush ivy seem to have grown out of the brickwork. Perfect marriages.