Macro Monday
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: #106 – Autumn
Autumn used to be my favourite season when I was young. As I grow older, I am happy to experience the beauty of each season.
Patti’s challenge this week is Autumn – and never has it been more difficult for me to choose images…my autumn tributes counts in the thousands. I will let my choices speak for themselves. As usual, click to enlarge.
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!
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Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
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Happiness is to get lost in an autumn forest, and not to be found is even a greater happiness!
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When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!
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Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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Every season has its own art and the art of autumn is to bewitch the people!
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As the season changes, we learn to adapt.
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A special thanks to Tina for hosting last week’s Spring challenge. And thank you all for sharing your spring poetry with us – hope and joy transmitted over the world!
Finally – Stay safe and well – hope to see many of your autumn memories! Next week it is my (Leya’s) turn to be your host – for Winter. Looking forward to seeing you then.
Thursday Thoughts – Painted Ladies
Today I have finished my Painted Ladies jigsaw puzzle – loved it. Painted really, so faces and details were very difficult to do. Thought mother’s birthday orchid also looked a bouquet of painted ladies…
Wordless Wednesday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge#104 Summer
As we announced last week, the team has a special “surprise” for July. We are hosting the theme “Seasons” for the entire month. This week, Amy’s theme is ”Summer”.
This is My summer. My summer is my garden, and our summer house.
This year, 2020, more than ever. In Sweden we call them ”Smultronställen”, (in direct translation:” wild strawberry places”) hidden, secret places where we find beauty, peace and solitude.
In later years, I have focused even more on giving my garden a ”wilder” face. A childhood summer face, a wildlife face, a caring for biodiversity focus.
Dead trees may lie where they stand or fall…
Wild flowers grow high and abundant before being cut down…
Hawk’s beard grow abundantly in the rear part of the garden – and they are humming with bees when turning their yellow faces to the sun.
A closer look at this part of the summer garden reveals my favorite summer flower – lavender.
– But also Cape plumbago and mallows. As always, click to enlarge.
In the southernmost part of the garden I have plum trees, cherries, elderberry, rowan, black and red currants and rhubarbs, Here there is generous space left for wild flowers.
Many insects hide in the grasses too – lying quietly on my back, I hear them going about their business.
My other summer ”smultronställe” is our little cottage by the sea. Hiking the many paths here is a joy to us all, and the summer nights are long and soft in the Scandinavian light.
Thank you for all your lovely surprises last week! I had some good laughs and some recognizing giggles – and some tears too… and, some Real Surprises!
This week we invite you to join us in a Summer theme. As always we encourage you to use our “Lens-Artists” tag for inclusion in our WP Reader section. Using tags can significantly increase the number of readers who see and comment on your posts. For instructions on adding tags click on this link https://wordpress.com/support/posts/tags/
July 11 Tina Spring
July 18 Patti Autumn/Fall
July 25 A-C Winter
Thank you for your support, stay safe and well – See you!
Wordless Wednesday
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #103 – Surprise
Thank you to Patti for her lovely challenge #102 – ”A Quiet Moment”, and all your beautiful responses! We certainly need our quiet moments, and it feels so good to share.
This week I have been pondering over the impact of not knowing how our situation in general will develop. We really – don’t – know. Even if we never can know in advance how life and things will turn out… we want to have some kind of schedule and feel in control.
Somehow, over these last months, I have tried hard to accept the fact that not knowing will be the normal thing for the future. Less planning – I have decided to adapt.
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence, a surprise.
This young lady was surprised by a happy call yesterday – getting that new job!
For many of us, June, July and August are the starters of vacation time. This year is of course without any scheduled far away travels, but small surprises usually occur in our everyday life. It could be surprising meetings, incidents, or maybe eye openers. In fact anything you feel surprise you!
I start off with a missed coffee break (Swedish ”Fika”) in the opener. We quickly had to find another place to eat our sandwiches… not sharing any!
Then – eye openers and great surprises are everywhere in nature. Last year I met this little creature – an insect looking exactly like a tiny twig – here together with a real twig. Can you tell which is which? This camouflage must be very effective!
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
But then there are surprises both negative and positive…Two days ago I found this battered 4cm butterfly dead on the garden stones. I could tell it must have been a beauty with those emerald/mother of pearl blue spots on the white wings. I wrote my colleagues in the biology group – and the answer was: Zeuzera pyrina, a blue spotted tree butterfly. A rare species where I live. The experts told me that my old apple trees could have been its home. And it might be that more of these butterflies are here. Let’s hope for a live meeting!
This is what it looks like in a fresh costume – wing span 35-75 mm.
Another big surprise – a minor shock in fact –
– was this Digitalis with a mutated top flower – a so called Peloria.
(This photo with my Samsung phone.) I had never seen one before. It reminded me of those dragon lizards running in the desert!
Have you seen these from Patti’s challenge?
Nes Felicio – The quiet has to come from within
From Hiding to Blogging– Yan is chasing sunstars
Pat, of Living Life Almost Gracefully finds quiet in the sense of gentle colors and order
Anne of Slow Shutter Speed – stunning quiet moments
Also –
The team has a special “surprise” for July. We will be hosting the theme “Seasons” for the entire month, and are announcing the sequence in advance. The schedule will be:
July 4 Amy Summer
July 11 Tina Spring
July 18 Patti Autumn/Fall
July 25 A-C Winter
Lastly – stay well, and don’t forget to use the Lens-Artists tag to easily be found in the reader!
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #102 – A Quiet Moment
This week, Patti is challenging us to capture A Quiet Moment. ” Maybe it’s a walk early in the morning or the time you sit down with a book and a cup of coffee. Include shots captured at home or in your neighborhood, or from a trip to a faraway place months or years ago. It’s totally up to you.”
As my Internet connection has been lost for some days, and I don’t know when it comes back, I am sending from my phone. Hopefully it will work anyway. I apologize for the post being a bit thin because of this situation – and not being able to comment on others’ posts until afterwards, but hope you will enjoy anyway. I am having quiet moments in more than a Midsummer way…
A forest exhibition at Wanås – old, embroidered linen in the silent trees.
My daughter in quiet contemplation over the summer night.
Even flowers have their quiet moments…
And you don’t have to be alone – you can be quiet together.
As always, thank you for your wonderful support of our challenges, and don’t forget to use our Lens-Artists tag to make people find you in the reader!
Stay well and safe – and treasure the quiet moments given to you.
Macro Monday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #101 – One Single Flower
I must have flowers, always, and always.
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This week we are honoured to have Cee Neuner of Ceenphotography leading us all in One Single Flower. One of Cee’s favorite quotes is If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha. Cee says: ”I know flowers have changed my world.” – And I must agree – a world without flowers would be unthinkable. See her splendid flower show on Ceenphotography!
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
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A rainy morning, last week, my garden poppies decided to stop hiding their faces – and let the world marvel. They are short lived beauties – but so delicious.
I woke up terrified the rain would have been too heavy for their delicate stems – but they were still there, and ready to go. I love to follow the swelling buds…
…and rejoice at their bursting into full splendour.
The bud shell yields its grip, and the flower unveils like a butterfly – the show only lasts for some minutes. I was lucky and grateful to be there.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
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We look forward to seeing your “One Single Flower” interpretation. Please use the Lens-Artists tag and link to Cee’s original post (the link on WP Reader does not work).
I hope this week will be filled with inspiration and good health for you and your loved ones. As always, thank you for your support, and we hope to see you again June 20, when Patti will host challenge #102.
Leya 
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