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The Botanical garden in Madrid – again

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I often visit the botanical garden in Madrid – in fact it is almost once a year nowadays. Come walk with me in this fragrant spring evening!

Callistemon – a favourite of mine. I once brought one home from Nepal, many years ago, but it died during one of my travels. Not easy for my mother to take care of…

You don’t necessarily need flowers to see the beauty.

The tiniest ones are enough too…

Allium is truly irresistable. Beautifully displayed against a dark background.

Yellow and red is wild and enigmatic together in this Caesalpinia Gilliesii.

This little one had no name – but glowed in the shadows.

…together with Yellow fire…

Lovely ”needles” everywhere.

The tiniest – allium and others.

And more. White poppies and Callistemon in all their glory.

# 312 Titta här! – Look here! (172/365)

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Suddenly they jumped into my lens…I was taking a photo of all the cages!

Titta här! Look here! And I couldn’t resist them of course – three nice strangers in Madrid’s flea market.

Travel theme: Handmade

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For Ailsa this week – Handmade.

This expression hides many interpretations and here are only two, and both from Madrid.

 The colourful tent on exhibition, by Federico Guzmán, in the Crystal Palace in Parc Retiro, and a totally different one with an artist on the flea market, making etherial tones vibrate from glasses. Click here for more made by hand.

WPC : On the Way

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Sometimes the way is more interesting than the final goal or end of destination.

Reina Sofia in Madrid is a modern museum containing among other famous works of art – Picasso’s Guernica. On the way to the painting, we walked in the beautiful, lofty corridors of the former hospital. The vaults and ceiling works of art in themselves.

Home in Sweden again, and on my way to an ordinary dog walk, Looking out the window I realize that on the way there is a stone wall clad in bright green ferns and snow white meadow saxifrage. I just had to stop for a photo…

So, don’t hesitate to look out the window, up in the ceiling or down on the floor – On the Way there are treasures waiting for you!

Travel theme: Modern

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The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, or Queen Sofía Museum,  is Spain’s national museum of 20th-century art. Formerly an 18th century hospital, but was renovated into a modern museum situated near the Atocha station in Madrid. It was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992,

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain’s two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Even if Dali´ is my personal favourite, the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso’s painting Guernica.

In this picture is one of the elevators at the entrance to the Sabatini building.

For more modern things at Ailsa’s – go to Where’s My Backpack?