Coralish for Friendly Friday – I looked up the pantone site, and …well, I don’t have much in that colour either. Here are my suggestions, somewhere near I hope!
In the header, the Dragon of Bhutan’s Druk Air.
A rose…
…and my garden poppies
Thursday’s Special: Pick a word in January – y4
Paula is back with a new prompt this month. As this challenge is a favorite of mine, I am here already! But only with four of the five words…the last one, in the header, is detox. I had to do mental detox…
crepuscular
coded
lofty
scintillating
Thursday Thoughts: Fulltofta, New Hike – Old Area
Through my father, I found a new forest to hike – an area where he used to work and walk when he was younger. If you want to, you can follow me, Totti and Milo!
Looking at the weather forecast, I chose a glorious day. And it was, from the start.
Night fallen snow and no wind. Blue promising skies with a cold sun.
Some 5-6 kilometers into the hike, I found the ruins of what once had been a cottage of my father’s. He used to stay there during the summers in the late 1940’s.
The stones rested in an open space, where now only brambles and old cherry trees, birches and lonely beeches were left to themselves. A silent and beautiful place.
Store Damm – Big Pond. This vast pond was recreated as part of a wetlands project from 2002 to 2006 with the help of old maps. The pond was drained just before 1920, but prior to that, it supplied hydro power to small-scale industries in the area.
The draining was done so that spruces could be planted, but the majority of these were downed by Hurricane Carola in 1999. Today, dead trees are still rising from the water.
Somewhere on the path here, Milo happened to venture down into a snow covered mud pool… so we had to keep moving faster because of the cold.
We also encountered wild boar hunters with dogs running around us – not that pleasant, but we have far too many wild boars here, so I hope they got some of them.
A glorious hike anyway, from where some earlier posts, Wednesday and Sunday, have borrowed photos.
In the late evening, Milo ”dropped his tail” and suffered from something called ”wet tail”. This problem might occur if the dog gets too wet and cold. A Spaniel and Retriever phenomenon mostly. I understand it hurts a great deal and he did not want to do anything at all after dinner. I had to let him out several times during the night, but the next evening he was – Tail Up again!
Wordless Wednesday
CFFC: Black and White
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Bank
Macro Monday – Winter Green
Silent Sunday
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #29: Cityscapes
”In the visual arts a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area.” This is the Wikipedia definition, and I must express my love for the easiness by which the English language constructs new words, adding – scape is only one possibility.
I must admit, this time I have had to struggle a bit, because I seldom take the time to see a city from a high up vantage point. I am not a city girl – more of a town girl and most of a country girl. I do enjoy visiting big cities for a very short time – for the architecture and all the other arts found in museums, opera houses, exhibition halls and the like. But one week is enough for me. Thus, my photos for Patti’s challenge, are mostly shot from boats, trains or planes. I have to excuse the lesser quality through all those windows…and the biggest city, Shanghai (25 million people), in rain.
Rain, fog and smog – that is Shanghai, and so many other big cities all over the world – in China not the least…but here I found most of my cityscape photos.
We managed to get a short glimpse of Shanghai by night – in heavy rain.
Our ship passed many big cities on the Yangtze cruise – I don’t even remember their names…
…through the windows it seemed to me…they all looked – the same.
Now we are on the other side of the world, Quito (2 million people), Ecuador. The people here are gentle and very sweet, and I loved their friendly and colourful city.
How about returning to Europe? London (8 million people) is an absolute favorite with me, and I have chosen the moment I first saw the Shard – through a dirty train window on arriving from Gatwick. Funny, I was chocked, I did not even know it existed!
Another favorite is Barcelona (1.6 million) – the home of so many of Gaudí’s architectural masterpieces. I do plan to return to see the Cathedral finished.
I recently found a new favorite city of mine, in Bulgaria – ancient Plovdiv (345000 people, and 2019, The European Capital of Culture). A true gem.
Lastly, my nearest big city in Sweden, Malmoe, with its 312000 inhabitants. A windy city by the sea, just opposite Copenhagen on the other side of the water. Shot through the plane window flying in with a beautiful sunset. The only skyscraper you will see here is Turning Torso – by the architect Santiago Calatrava.
In the header, the City of Cities – Rome, in late afternoon light.
Thank you to Patti for this wonderful opportunity to dig in the archives for cityscapes I did not think I had… and for the chance to see so many cityscapes I will never be able to visit!
Friendly Friday Photo Challenge – Pathways
This Friday Amanda is the host of this fun challenge – and Pathways is the theme. I have got many favorite paths…but I will try to single out some of my absolute favorites.
In the header, a stone path through the Dracaena Draco part of the wonderful botanical garden in Gran Canaria.
I love walking the old boards of wetlands – looking for orchids in spring.
The Azores is filled with fantastic, rural pathways. My heart warms when I walk the winding path among sleeping sheep and old farmsteads.
Of course I cannot but love the path through my home forest. A path I walk every day – and always enjoy to the full. No matter how many times or in what weather – I know it so well…
…it is a lifelong Love.
Leya 
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