Leaving for Iceland for some days – only near Reykjavik this time. We will be spending some bathing time with friends. I just realized it is 10 years since our last visit. Hopefully this will mean some good times.
Wish you all a great weekend!
Memories
SL-WEEK 27: Pride
I am immensely proud of my daughter, who after high school went to New Zealand as a volunteer worker – natural science. NZ is far away from home – in fact they are our antipodes – and she did not know anybody there. I never got the opportunity to go when I was young, so a bit envious I was…
She handled it perfectly well and worked with everything from clearing the djungle to setting up traps for rodents and vermin.
This photo reached me after some weeks – and the pride I felt was overwhelming. A working girl, with knife , machete and saw – doing good things for Mother Nature. My Daughter.
Now she is studying to become a dentist, and when finished, she is determined to go back to NZ to live and work there.
For Sylvain Landry – Pride
Top 6-10 of all posts 2015 – Is Your Own Favourite Here?
What did you like most on Leya during this year? I took a closer look at the statistics to find out the top 10 posts. Would they be My top 10 as well? I’m giving you one picture from each of these ten posts, and the link to the full post.
Analysis? Again four out of five posts are challenges from our host, WordPress. Post number 10 is a Travel theme from Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? So, the importance of challenges is clearly visible.
It would be very interesting to know which is Your special favourite – and why? Let me know in the comment box! Maybe it’s not even one of these posts? And, what would you like to see more of in 2016?
Find Post 1-5 here
A freezing cold morning at the old bridge. This is clearly one of my own favourites.
Photos and text from a day in my life. In the evening a walk with one of my best friends.
A Medieval dinner in Riga – one of the most appreciated meals in my restaurant history.
The old houses in Jurmala, a former holiday resort outside Riga.
These trees live in ”my” forest. Always in a magical light – sometimes more, sometimes less. But they always mean Magic to me.
2015 is Soon Coming To an End…
First of all, my deepest gratitude to all of you, followers, readers and commenters during 2015, and many of you for some years back too! I have got to know some of you rather well, and I have even met three of you ”in the real world”. I love that feeling…So, if you are coming to the southern part of Sweden, I hope you will mail me or give me a call. As you know – I have taken a year off. You are so very welcome for a chat, a cup of tea or coffee. Maybe an outing together! If I am home of course, and not on a trip somewhere in the world…
What did you like most on Leya during this year? I took a closer look at the statistics to find out the top 10 posts. Would they be my top 10 as well? I’m giving you one picture from each of these ten posts, and the link to the full post. Only five at a time, so you will not get too tired…
Analysis? Out of these first five posts, four are WordPress Challenges, which of course tells us what we already know – the importance of challenges and the importance of our host! But, the fourth most liked post made my heart jump with an extra beat. About Mille. In this post I have put some of my favourite photos of my ”Iron Man” and I have tried to describe his wonderful character.
I will post the top 6-10 before New Year’s Eve. It would be very interesting to know which is Your special favourite – and why? Let me know in the comment box! Maybe it’s not even one of these posts? And, what would you like to see more of in 2016?
From Bellinzona in Switzerland. This post was featured in ”Photos We Loved” by WPC
My most happy places – many positive comments on the golden forest
This post is about my decision to take a year off.
How happy you made me by liking and commenting on my lovely Mille! He will never die!
The Swiss Alps – a place for meditation.
SL-WEEK 24: Machine
Machines I’m impressed by are the mountain trains – here in Switzerland. They climb, sometimes very steep, several thousands of metres and they go down the same way. Seemingly undisturbed, effortless. And they are comfortable as well.
For Sylvain Landry. What machines are you impressed by? Join in and let us know!
WPC: Oops!
Well…this is by far my most oopsy picture ever – me doing food photography outdoors, suddenly finding a cat literally IN my lens. I was so shocked, nearly dropped the camera, and the shot went off. Salmon must have been one of his favourites…
Looking for more oopsy pictures? – click here or join in yourself!
Travel theme: Fabric
I believe we all love fabric, and we all go looking for them in the market and in shopping centres and…love to surround ourselves with them at home.
Thank you, Ailsa for always having lovely themes and keeping us going! Click here for more inspiration and join in yourself!
A Swedish fine tablecloth, woven and then cut, drawn together and ”embroidered” in this special way.
Chinese carpets – pure silk. Header – bedding in pure silk, China.
SL-WEEK 23: Narrow
For Sylvain Landry this week – Narrow.
Some weeks ago, we went down the Yangtze River on a cruiser, and had to pass the Three Gorges Dam – the biggest dam project in the world. We went through the lock during the night, but I stayed up late to touch the wall and feel the claustrofobia…
#37 Eget tema: I ett förklarat ljus – In a Glorified Light (360/365)
The old Lutheran Church (1704), Latvia, Riga
Travel theme: Self
Ailsa’s theme this week gives you another chance to reflect on who you really are. What is the very essence of you? Not easily done in only one picture…so I had to choose two.
The loner, hiking in nature – but I am also the photographer and the lover of my job and my students. The results are one picture from a hike at Svartisen, Norway, and the other taken by a student at the final dinner for my class, leaving school, heading out in Life.
Why not take the chance to figure out the very essence of You? Click here for more inspiration.
Leya 
Du måste vara inloggad för att kunna skicka en kommentar.