The winter is still a feast in my garden – some mornings offer a shimmering, microcosmic world of crystals. Nature’s wonders are always the best wonders.
Tankar
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #31: Landscapes
The challenge from Amy this week is Landscapes. And I must agree with her, searching the archives for landscapes I have traveled through brought back many fond memories. I also got reminded of my love for two English painters, namely John Constable and William Turner. Constable a naturalistic painter and Turner a Romantic – they merge into the kind of art I love the most. So, let me start with a photographic painting from the winter where I live in the southern part of Sweden. And then, some different Swedish landscapes.
”The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.”
Molly Parker
If we go abroad, the landscapes of course change for every country. Here are some of my favorites, starting with the Alps of Switzerland.
Endless, lonely beaches in Latvia
…and in Iceland. More Icelandic landscapes are here and here. More? Here and here!
Early morning dunes in Morocco – so different from the warm yellows of the evening sun!
This view from a kapok tree in the Amazon basin is one of my loveliest memories ever
The unforgettable, strange landscapes of the Galapagos Islands. The impressive, 5-40 ft, endemic Opuntia cactus is common, but
– every island is different…
Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers of New Zealand display extremely impressive landscapes
Back in Europe again, and the lush, rural landscapes of Bastán, Spain
A spectacular landscape hidden somewhere in the Pyrenees, Spain
And finally, China, along the Yangtze river…
… and the vast landscape of the Tibetan Plateau – shot through a train window. We traveled on the highest built railroad in the world, and the only train running on the permafrost.
Thank you, Amy, for this opportunity to revisit some favorite landscapes! I quote Charles Lindbergh: ”Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”
Thank you for visiting, and welcome to join in the challenge! Also, be sure to tune in for Tina’s challenge next week, February 9!
Silent Sunday
Friendly Friday Photo Challenge – Revisited
Amanda asks us to revisit this Friendly Friday, and I have chosen Iceland. We have visited several times, and never tire of this magical saga country. This summer we are going back again, to the western part of Iceland, and to revisit Vestmannaeyar.
Seljalandsfoss 2006 – in the header, 2016 and winter.
Gullfoss winter 2016 and summer 2006.
And the mesmerizing lava fields, 2006, just have to have it again!
Thank you, Amanda, for a chance to remember and revisit!
Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Anything Construction Related
Thursday Thoughts – Fryksås Winters…
Suddenly I remembered all those years we every winter went to Fryksås in Dalarna, and stayed at the Fäbodvall in a typical old cottage from the 19th century – or older. When I look up Fäbod in English, it says shieling/sheeling – small huts were farmers used to spend their summers in the mountain pastures, looking after their cattle.
We used to go skiing in the hills and the dogs had great fun. The children were not that old, so they went skiing with us, but also used the hills for other ways of sliding down on the snow…
And I miss those days. No TV or radio, no electric lights – only the sun and candle light. The long evenings after skiing and playing in the snow, we played card games or board games, and read books together. The beds for the children were still like in the old days, called skåpsängar – in English box-beds or closed beds.
We all loved it. We kept going there until 2010. And do you know – the children never missed their electric gadgets, and neither did my husband or I.
Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Rose
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Rose
The rose has got an advantage over many flowers…it looks good even when it is fading.
And I love them in any colour. But orange might be my favorite. For Dutch Goes the Photo.
Macro Monday – On our Way!
Silent Sunday
Leya 
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