Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Steps Indoors or Outdoors

 

For Cee this week – Steps. In the header – the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. (I’m not sure you can walk them though…except maybe from the inside.))

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The second photo is from Hamar, Norway, steps with autumn leaves.

 

CFFC: Doors and Drawers

Two favourites from Riga! Drawers from Tom’s Drag and the door from a walk in old town.

 

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Doors and Drawers

Thursday Thoughts

We went to the summer house for some days. On the way, we caught our daughter at the airport  – summer holidays are here. We also visited a very dear friend of ours and their 7 weeks old puppies. Totti was the proud grandfather – and his daughter Ella was the perfect mother. Busy days….

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Meet some of the youngsters here! I do not have to tell you that they were Not posing…not a second…

I guess I got an extra heart ♥ swelling today.

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Travel theme: Plants

Plants, butterflies and insects from a trip to a hidden valley in the Pyrenées. Gorgeous  hikes and nature amazingly full of life.

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This Astrantia major, common name great masterwort, and below, Eryngium maritimum, or the sea holly, are two of my favourite plants.

Love plants? There are more of them here, at Ailsa’s.

WPC: Numbers

Numbers…I seldom photograph numbers. I’m not that much into mathematics, and my profession includes more of letters…so, in my photos there are … letters instead.

Nevertheless,  I do have one of my favourite numbers here, created by a woman of letters, for Ben and WordPress….For more numbers, click here.

And…

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… in this second photo, from NZ, you get a free, kneeling,  selfie as well!

Thursday Thoughts

For almost a week now we have had extremely hot weather in the south of Sweden. And we know that last year was the hottest ever here – and on Earth.

Of course this gives us wonderful mornings – and evenings. Something to be grateful for.

But, northeners are not made for this. Our bodies protest. The evening walk with my dog cannot start until 7.30 p.m. He is not well prepared for the heat either (he did not come with a zipper…) – 33.5 C yesterday.

This is the end of May and the beginning of June. If we ever have those high temperatures, then it might happen some day in July or August.

It is beautiful, it is a wonderful evening by the sea, but it feels neither real nor all right.

Today we are having the biggest migration of people – ever – in Europe, and what will these climate changes bring? Yes, even more migration…people trying to save what is left of their lives and trying to get a new start, a new life, somewhere else. Some islands have already disappeared.

This is only the beginning of the end.

As always, click the pictures to enlarge –  sometimes you have to click twice.