For Cee this week – two very different items... The lower part of this picture shows one of my students (in a bar in Madrid) and the upper part of the picture…

At least they both smile!

WPC : On the Way

30 maj, 20154 juni, 2015 / Leya / 12 kommentarer

Sometimes the way is more interesting than the final goal or end of destination.

Reina Sofia in Madrid is a modern museum containing among other famous works of art – Picasso’s Guernica. On the way to the painting, we walked in the beautiful, lofty corridors of the former hospital. The vaults and ceiling works of art in themselves.

Home in Sweden again, and on my way to an ordinary dog walk, Looking out the window I realize that on the way there is a stone wall clad in bright green ferns and snow white meadow saxifrage. I just had to stop for a photo…

So, don’t hesitate to look out the window, up in the ceiling or down on the floor – On the Way there are treasures waiting for you!

# 327 Underläge – Weak position…(168/365)

27 maj, 2015 / Leya / 9 kommentarer

# 318 Trångt – Narrow (164/365)

26 maj, 2015 / Leya / 7 kommentarer

The streets of Segovia, Spain.

# Eget tema Klappa – Pat/Caress 163/365

26 maj, 2015 / Leya / 7 kommentarer

Outside the Royal Palace, Madrid.

#321 Tunga – Tongue (162/365)

26 maj, 201526 maj, 2015 / Leya / 8 kommentarer

Vid Reina Sofia, Madrid.

# 310 Teknik – Technique (160/365)

14 maj, 2015 / Leya / 25 kommentarer

På klassens studieresa besökte vi bland annat Lessebo finpappersbruk. Här gör man pappret för hand enligt gammal teknik och det färdiga pappret används bland annat till examensbevis på Uppsala universitet.

On our study trip to Öland we also visited Lessebo, where they still make paper by hand in the old technique.This fine paper is for example used at Uppsala University.

Warsaw – A Miracle of Old and New – Stroll III

8 maj, 201510 maj, 2015 / Leya / 41 kommentarer

Time for a final stroll in Warsaw – a city of surprises. Much glass, interesting architecture. i fell in love with the University Library and its gardens. And also the pride of the city – The Copernikus Centre on the river Wisla.

The library, finished 1999, was invitingly modern and I knew it was to have a gigantic glassed garden terrace overviewing the river and surroundings.

The impressive entrance – a dream in green and lilac.

Indoors, much air and glass – again. We tried several assistants and guards to get to the glassed gardens on the roof…but…no, we were not allowed there. They didn’t open until…the next day!

Instead we went out in the lower garden to see them from the outside. Art work everywhere and interesting architectural ideas.

The glassed gardens are on the right and left side here, and the closed gates are on either side of the solar cells.

The huge middle ”half moon” would have been great to see from the inside as well – maybe a couple of weeks later with a green canopy.

Further down the road, on the banks of the river Wisla, is situated the pride of Warsaw, The Copernicus Center, ”Heaven of Copernicus”. In Copenhagen we have a centre built on comparatively the same ideas: Experiments and journeys in time and space; but we stayed on the outside this time.

Back in the city centre again. Of course I have to finish with Zlote Tarasy – ”The Golden Terraces”, in rain. For me, this shopping centre is a symbol of the new Warsaw.