2015 is Soon Coming To an End…

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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?

WPC: Change

From Bellinzona in Switzerland. This post was featured in ”Photos We Loved” by WPC

WPC: Happy Place

My most happy places – many positive comments on the golden forest

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WPC: Victory

This post is about my decision to take a year off.

About Mille

How happy you made me by liking and commenting on my lovely Mille! He will never die!

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WPC: Inspiration

The Swiss Alps – a place for meditation.

Travel theme: Spice

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Spicy Travels! Budapest and Rome. Visit here at Ailsa’s for more.

Thursday Thoughts

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Thursday happened to be Christmas Eve. So this will be the story of a very special parcel…a present for my mother from her granddaughter.

This Origami flower ball took some time to make, but Emma is a skilled Origamist (she makes a crane from every small train ticket and leaves it for the conductor…).

Then she drew a picture puzzle on the parcel, for my mother to solve before she was allowed to open it. ( With some help of course!) And we all laughed throughout the entertaining process of figuring out the problem…

This Christmas present was the most loved one on Christmas Eve. Handmade, beautiful, and engaging its receiver for several minutes before revealing its content.

No money spent, but Love, Time and Interest. Sometimes that is just enough.

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WPC: Now

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This deliciously crisp chocolate candy we made two days ago – and NOW we are eating it!

SL-WEEK 25: Macro

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For Sylvain Landry – macro, frosty leaves.

Merry Christmas !

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Celebrating – the Winter Solstice

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05.48 this morning – and from now on the light is returning!

Looking out my window

Blue sky

—and the Tiger Lily decided this was a good day to unfold

Silent Sunday

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WPC: Gathering

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A gathering of 19000 cranes at Lake Hornborga, March 2014.

For more photos and facts about this gathering, click here.

4 Days to Go – Thursday Thoughts

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Soon the winter solstice will be here. Much longed for, maybe more than ever this year. No snow – except for one single, great day – and many dark and drizzly days.

Here a series from one of the better days, this week in fact. Notice the play of warm and cold this time of the year. Warm colours if you turn in the direction of the thin rays of the sun – and the cold colours or darkness if you turn towards the sun itself.

One of my favourite spots in ”my” forest, is the passage between two of the grass meadows to the west. Here, Mille used to stand waiting for me by the big oak tree.

The other spot is on my way back from the open landscape to the forest path. The majestic beech trees all aglow with the last rays of the low sun. 2.30 pm.