Textures – many interpretations possible, but I found some that I really like. I guess you all have seen and felt these ones before? From harsh to smooth and delicate, from warm to cold…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
Tankar
Who’s who – or – Whose room is whose?
I have got two wonderful youngsters at home this summer – in a couple of weeks they will be back at university and my house will feel so empty. Now, both of them are active and creative people and they interact with a lot of other creative people. But…I think every parent knows how different their kids are even if they do have the same parents and – for the most part – about the same upbringing…
My son is 22 and my daughter is 24.
What picture belongs to the life of who?
Jag har två fantastiska ungdomar hemma den här sommaren. Om några veckor är de tillbaka vid sina universitet och huset kommer att kännas så tomt…Båda är kreativa och skapande människor, men ack så olika inom vissa områden…Alla föräldrar kan nog känna igen hur stora skillnader det är på barnen trots att de verkligen har samma föräldrar och i stort sett samma uppväxt.
Min son är 22 och min dotter 24.
Vilken bild visar ”vem” av de två?
Cee’s fun foto Challenge: Metal or the Season of Autumn
This week Cee is asking us for something metal or from the season of autumn – my choice is The Kelpies in Falkirk, Scotland. Impressive metal sculptures that took my breath away this July.
The Kelpies, made by sculptor Andy Scott, stand 30 metres tall in the 350 hectares Helix recreational space in Falkirk. They are the world’s largest equine sculptures and towering over the Forth & Clyde Canal they form a gateway to the canal entrance. These sculptures are meant to pay tribute to central Scotland’s working horse heritage on the canals from years gone by. Read more about them in my post here.
For more entries, click here.
And, thank you Cee for featuring my entry on Harvest last week!
Karlskrona skärgård – A day in the Karlskrona archipelago
Coming and leaving
Travel theme: Simplify
Ailsa at Where’s my Backpack? wants us to simplify – so why not just go relaxing …
…with your best friend?
Weekly Photo Challenge: ZigZag
Lines in a window and through the window – some of them zigzag and some not. You see what you want to see.
And then – why not a crane doing a shrill scream? Do you see the lines as I see them?
For more zigzag, click here.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Earth or the Harvest Season
The harvest season is here, and for some farmers the harvest is already in. We’ve had very high temperatures for about two weeks now, so they have been busy.
Photo from late this afternoon – the scent was lovely and the sun still hot, which comes trough in the warm colours.
Travel theme: Meeting Places
Ailsa’s Meeting Places is a real treat – now we can find places to meet in reality – and virtually – all over the world!
Me meeting all the H.P. fans at the ”Elephant House”
Go there and remember…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’
When we go to our summer house, this is the view just before we turn the last corner…we call it ”Hästviken”,. This is truly summer to me. And now, soon, this view means the final piece of summer when we say goodbye and leave for home.
Find some more summer lovin’ here.
The Falkirk Wheel and The Kelpies – Masterpieces
The Falkirk Wheel
Let us start with my last day in Scotland for this time. Our flight home was moved to the afternoon, so, we went west from Edinburgh to visit The Falkirk Wheel, which is the world’s first rotating boatlift. The lift links the Forth & Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, connecting Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Detta hjul är den första roterande båtliften i världen och ingår i Skottlands ambitiösa kanalprogram. Union and the Forth och Clyde är nu en oavbruten länk mellan Glasgow och Edinburgh. Hjulet svingar båtarna mellan de två vattenvägarna!
If you want to try the wheel you can take a trip on these boats. Unfortunately they were not available when we visited. Vanillarock shows great shots of the wheel at work here!
Om du ville pröva hjulet fanns möjligheten med dessa turistbåtar. De hade ännu inte öppnat när vi var där. Vanillarock visar den i arbete här!
The Kelpies
More fantastic engineering – or rather spectacular, beautiful art – are The Kelpies by sculptor Andy Scott. ”The original concept of mythical water horses was a valid starting point for the artistic development of the structures.“”I took that concept and moved with it towards a more equine and contemporary response, shifting from any mythological references towards a socio-historical monument intended to celebrate the horse’s role in industry and agriculture as well as the obvious association with the canals as tow horses.”
Som en tribut till de hästar som troget arbetat för människan, bland annat vid kanalerna, står dessa 30 meter höga jättar vid varsin sida av the Forth & Clyde Canal och bildar en portal till dess ingång.
The Kelpies stand 30 metres tall in the 350 hectares Helix recreational space in Falkirk. They are the world’s largest equine sculptures and towering over the Forth & Clyde Canal they form a gateway to the canal entrance. These sculptures are meant to pay tribute to central Scotland’s working horse heritage on the canals from years gone by.
Hästarna är konstruerade av skulptören Andy Scott. Skulpturerna påbörjades i juni 2013 och stod klara i oktober samma år. Invigningen var dock i april 2014. De är världens största hästskulpturer.
Built of structural steel with a stainless steel cladding, The Kelpies weigh 300 tonnes each.
Vi uppskattade stålplåtens tjocklek till ca en halv centimeter – och hästarna väger imponerande 300 ton vardera.
Construction began in June 2013, and was complete by October 2013. The Kelpies are positioned either side of a specially constructed lock and basin, part of the redeveloped Kelpies Hub.
Please click the photos to enlarge!
Läs mer om arbetshästarnas historia här. Read more of the working horses history here.
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