Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Squares-Triangles-and-Angles

4 juli, 2014 / Leya / 43 kommentarer

This challenge made me think about how many of these squares, triangles and angles we find in an ordinary house – in this case an old cottage, a ”Blekingestuga”. For more on this theme – click here.

In the tiny rooms of this particular cottage, everything from ceiling to floor seems to be made up of these angles…

Miss Jenny Samuelsson from Kuggeboda, Blekinge, gave this cottage to the museum – now to be visited by everyone coming to their garden.

From the outside you can see the tinyness of this cottage – a remembrance of how poor people used to live in the old days.

Turning my lens to the modern buildings just some 50 metres from this cottage – the houses still have these angles and squares …and colours. A brilliant merge of old and new architecture.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

30 juni, 2014 / Leya / 39 kommentarer

Contrasts – impossible…couldn’t stop myself here…There are so many possibilities so it had to be a gallery. Some of them I have used before, but they work together as well! For more contrasts, click here.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Smooth Objects

1 april, 20142 april, 2014 / Leya / 30 kommentarer

From Salvadór Dalí and Figueras, Spain – Smooth!

Door handle…

…and seductive lips

One Trip EVERY Month Challenge: Östersund and Maria

6 mars, 20146 mars, 2014 / Leya / 28 kommentarer

Marianne has begun a new challenge where you take one trip every month, near or far, and take photos or write all about it. Join her here http://eastofmalaga.net/2014/01/20/new-challenge-one-trip-every-month/

Here’s how:

Each month, visit somewhere and then write about your trip or describe it using photographs – whichever suits you best.
Don´t forget to title and tag your entry ’One Trip EVERY Month Challenge’, and link back to this page.
Display the Challenge logo on your post or in your sidebar.
HAVE FUN!

I should have gone before Christmas, but a storm closed down all transportation in the southern part of Sweden. My flight was cancelled only a couple of hours before take-off. I was finally going to meet one of my blogger friends, Maria, living in Östersund up north, and I can’t say how disappointed I was. And Maria too. We had been planning this for about half a year, and we both laughed in the phone at the disaster …there was nothing else we could do…

I had to book another flight – not until February was it possible for us to meet. I was looking forward to a lot of winter, snow and fabulous walks on their big lake, Storsjön. The trip turned out to be … something quite different, but maybe not less wonderful!

My room

The real thing – Yarri!

One good way of transporting yourself on ice

Östersund – on wet ice

Åre and the mountains

Studio glassworks – Storsjöhyttan

Hot chocolate and …..

Östersund by night

For more on Jämtland, see my previous posts: https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/en-pa-miljonen-one-in-a-million/

https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/frozen-gems-ristafallet-och-tannforsen-a-john-bauer-and-j-r-r-tolkien-dream/

And MariaYarri who is the true source of Jämtland pictures and stories!

Weekly Photo Challenge – Selfie

8 februari, 20148 februari, 2014 / Leya / 69 kommentarer

A hotel entre´ I couldn’t resist! Loved the table too…but to what use it was I couldn’t guess. Being beautiful only?

For more selfies – click here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Object

31 januari, 201431 januari, 2014 / Leya / 46 kommentarer

Object – what’s an ”object”? The WP challenge this week made me choose a useful object, an object that I like, portrayed on the most beautiful summer’s day.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 100 steps or less and take new photos

28 januari, 201428 januari, 2014 / Leya / 29 kommentarer

This I have never tried before – taking photos almost where I stand right now. 100 steps, I think this little tour was about… 40? But, tonight there is a blizzard and I hear it roaring. When I had walked the dogs, about 6 pm, I’d had enough and stayed inside. So, indoor photos then – and only a quick look outdoors …

Tiger lily standing proudly in my window. It’s always in flower this time of the year.

It’s getting dark, so I turn on the lights in my other rooms. But, the days have grown longer and light is still lingering when I’m back from work.

Now I’m going to open the door to our garden – the wind should be hiding behind the house today if my calculations are right…

No walking on the roof today though… Last time we lit the fire for a cosy evening, the smoke sneaked in instead of out. The ladder was left there just in case…

Some places make you forget everything…

30 juli, 2013 / Leya / 26 kommentarer

Somewhere in the neighbourhood of the British Museum we found a Little shop of…

A fabulous place where I – and my daughter – could have stayed for ever…The atmosphere, the patina of the old cupboards; the pencils, the bottled colours…everything.

Of course we bought some colours and sketch books, and I even bought a new pencil-box. My old faithful one is falling apart after 30 years and more of extensive use. But…I know I cannot abandon it anyway…it has stayed with me for ages, seen my university studies and…well, maybe it has brought me luck through tests and safely kept my precious pens and pencils…I am a pen-freak and have always been.

We were both so immersed in our findings, that we forgot to remember the name of this shop. I do know where it is situated, though. I will easily find it next time

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

7 juli, 20137 juli, 2013 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

Så många saker väcker nostalgin till liv, men när jag nu ska finna bilder till detta inlägg blir det genast svårare. Inte många foton finns från mitt barndomshem eller från min älskade mormors hus – tankar och minnen från barndomen finns mest inuti mig själv. Men, så fick jag chansen att besöka en av de riktigt gamla husen i närheten av vår sommarstuga.

Denna lilla stuga är från slutet av 1700-talet och dess interiör värker fram minnen som får ögonen att tåras. Här finns möbler, färger, mönster, prydnadssaker och tidningsställ som påminner om dem vi hade när jag var barn på 50- och 60-talet. Blandat med moderniteter förstås – helt enkelt gott och blandat. Få se om du inte kan känna igen dig lite grand, du också…och kan konstatera att vi vuxit till oss en aning de senaste tvåhundra åren…

So many things can make you nostalgic, but when I am supposed to show something of this in WordPress Nostalgic – I do not have any pictures. My childhood didn’t get much photographed, and when I grew older and bought a camera of my own, we had moved away from where it all started. My grandmother’s house though, was still there for a while.

But, last week I got the opportunity to visit a very old little house (or maybe cottage) some kilometres from our summer house. The owner told me that it was built in the late 18th century and is well kept. Even if it seems to be very low, because people were a great deal shorter in those days, I could stand upright inside.

The cottage is furnished almost the way my childhood house was. I grew up in the fifties and sixties, and recognized many things here, such as colours and patterns, the table, rag-rugs (my grandmother used to make those too), chairs, and the special basket for newspapers… Oh, happy childhood – because I was really fortunate enough to have that. In my memories it will live on as long as I live.

Weekly Travel theme: Benches

13 april, 201313 april, 2013 / Leya / 13 kommentarer

Bänkar är veckans tema hos Ailsas Where’s my Backpack? Det är viktigt med bänkar. De ska vara av trä – så att de får den där solvarma sommarmjukheten. De ska helst vara bekväma och dessutom vara vackert placerade med en avkopplande vy för den sittande. Men, i verkligheten kan bänkar se ut på många olika sätt och vara anpassade för helt olika människor. I franska Lourdes, som ju är en kurort av rang, finns bänkar som bara sjuka (malades) får sitta på.

This week’s Travel Theme is Benches. Many people truly love them – and I’m rather fond of them myself. At their best they are wooden and absorbing the sunlight so they feel warm and cosy…and, they should stand in spots important – in terms of comfortableness and beauty. The view is essential to people using the bench. In reality, there are very different benches to be found…In this little gallery there is a bench standing in the old health resort Lourdes, France – only for ”malades”.