This time the challenge is ”Refraction” and what that means to me. When I was a child this was enigmatic – and I think it still is. Even if I understand the phenomenon, it’s still great to see it – every time. Even in the smallest formate – not to talk about rainbows…
I’s raining. Not much sun these days, so when it doesn’t rain – we go out. Totti is not much of a man for wet weather…open the door, he sticks his pretty little nose out, turns around and snuggles up in his bed. ”I can wait…”
Whe we do go out, the air is dewy soft and trees and grasses are all in pearls. In the forest, there is a dim light between the trees.
In the open, there are many different spiders and many different webs – depending on where they live and what they want to catch.
Maybe the wheel spiders are the ones we love the best – or at least those are the ones we firs recognize.
Everywhere on everything growing, you will find them. Pearls, necklaces, ethereal. When the sun shines through, they are almost lost to the eye…
…especially in the grass on the ground. But now – they are visible, beautifully intricate. And many!
From a different angle we can see how thickly woven and how close (3-4 cm ) to the ground. It must be quite impossible for a moth or a fly to get detangled from this…
On our way back, the sun finally came out and the misty dew lifted – no more spider’s web to be seen! Instead the few autumn colours shone – the spindle-tree being one of my favourites.
And back home again – my last garden flowers this year. Glorious in the sun.
For Cee’s challenge this week – Vibrant Colors – I picked Gran Canaria apartements and two little friends a dewy summer morning. Why not participate yourself?
Last weekend we spent in Gdansk, Poland. We went by ferry from Karlskrona to Gdynia, and then by taxi and train to and from Gdansk and Sopot. I had a gloomy vision of Poland since my school days – coal, polluted, misty, drab…and no one could convince me of anything else. I had to see it with my own eyes….And, I was met by lovely people (not that good English speakers, but there are hands, feet, body and face to use!), a wonderfully restored city and a glorious resort in Sopot.
Early morning mist and we woke up to this wiew of the harbour. Looking out through the window, the big cranes were sailing by…
….behind the containers, the city itself was rising from the morning mist.
The King walked this way when he had received the key to the city. Dluga – or the Long Street. It is difficult to understand how all these magnificent buildings all were rebuilt from the disasters of WWII.
Passing the Town Hall, which is the highest building in the city – 81 metres – we reached the fountain of Neptune. But first, let’s take a closer look at some of the architecture.
Oh, the doors and their ornaments…
…and all the old and new signs and lamp posts, intricately woven in iron.
Many old ladies were selling their home made knittings – among many other things…in the street.
And the colours were amazing – on houses and people and clothes and …
…balloons!
This fountain, built in 1549, was so popular with the citizens that they took it down piece by piece to hide it during the war. Not until 1954 was it put together again!
And now, the mighty Neptune himself guided us to…
…the Waterfront. Restaurants, cafés and people, people. More from the beauty, the people and the ships on the Waterfront in the next post!
For Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? – an Interior from Gdansk fruit and vegetable market!
Four different pictures…I could not choose between them for the WPC Dreamy. Walks in the woods and then by the sea this summer. The last picture is one I first thought of throwing away…but my beloved Mille is still running there, in my dreams.
It was a great surprise and a great pleasure to visit Gdansk in Poland this weekend. The city centre has been totally renovated and built up from the ruins of WWII. A fantasy of soft pastels. Just in time for Cee’s challenge!
A short trip to Gdynia and Gdansk – the container ships in the Gdynia Harbour for Ailsa’s Bountiful!
And here is a second entry for Signs...because something is wrong and the rest of my photos could not be shown in the post – only in my post before hitting ”Publish”?
Who’s the owner?
What happened to the water?
On a church in Perth…
New Zealand – the land of signs!
A special vote for this one from Scotland – emitting warmth and care and love!
Leya 
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