Mushroom magic

17 september, 201417 september, 2014 / Leya / 35 kommentarer

My mother and I like to walk, and every year we visit Vedema, only some miles from where I live. This area is perfect for hikers and others who want to enjoy the outdoors. Follow me and Totti on a day out with my mother, looking for this autumn’s lovely mushrooms! Indeed they are all wonders, and all different ones…

After a couple of hours – and a beautiful couple of gigantic red toadstools, we met a young lady called Bella – and Totti fell totally in love…For some 15 minutes we were all in the middle of ”The Fast and the Furious”.

Walking back again after some coffee and buns, we felt we’d had a refreshing day.

Poisonous hats

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Buildings

16 september, 201421 september, 2014 / Leya / 23 kommentarer

Buildings can be serene and beautiful too – not only functional. I have chosen the glass building covering an old cathedral in Norway, and a tree building for birdwatching in Sweden. Both are new, but somehow naturally fit into their environment.

For Cee’s challenge – Buildings – Hamar, Norway, the Cathedral ruin totally under glass cover.

The bird watching centre – Hornborgasjön, Sweden.

Travel theme: Noise

13 september, 201413 september, 2014 / Leya / 16 kommentarer

Ailsa’s travel theme this week is about noise. The strange and interesting thing is that we all are different here – some say noise and some say sound and some cannot stand it and some love it…

My concert pictures are from the hard rock band Kamelot – my favourites in the category.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity

13 september, 2014 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

Humanity is the WP challenge – what first comes to my mind is all human beings collectively – the human race. Then the human nature – what does it mean, being human?

We live in this world, on this Earth together

We travel, we try to find our own way in life

Eating and…

…drinking are essential to stay alive

We start families – and we read and learn

Working together is a must – and, oh, the joy!

Communication – more and more important to us

We try to build bridges over gigantic gaps…physical and psychological

Living without art and stories and fantasy – impossible…

…but we pay too much attention to our outward qualities…

…and everything is not what it seems to be

Secondly, there’s the quality of being humane – kindness and benevolence. Tolerance.

How we treat the lonely man in the street…

…and our best friends, the animals

…and try to give our newcomers on this planet a positive start

So…I’ve been playing around again…

11 september, 201411 september, 2014 / Leya / 19 kommentarer

As I’m having wonderful students this year – too – I’m rather busy with my big classes! I try to blog, and try to read as many blogs as I can as often as I can …Thursday evenings though, there are usually some hours free – and today I have been trying Fotosketcher again. A way to relax before the Big Day. There’s the Big Election coming up here in Sweden this Sunday, and as I’m responsible for the election held in my area, I will be very busy that day. Fun, but a lot of responsibility. I have been doing this since the 1980’s. This year I guess everyone expects there to be a totally new government on Monday morning.

Now to my pictures…which one turned out the best? Technically? Colours? Your preferences? The flower and the beach are from Blekinge, Sweden. The building is the Edinburgh Parliament and the cat – was watching me from a window at Greyfriar’s, Edinburgh.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Contrasting Colours

9 september, 20149 september, 2014 / Leya / 9 kommentarer

Contrasting colours makes the picture pop – Join in Cee’s challenge!

Red and green

Blue and orange

Yellow and violet

Weekly Photo Challenge: Adventure

7 september, 2014 / Leya / 23 kommentarer

The WordPress challenge this week is about adventure. The greatest adventure is Life, the life we have been given. We don’t know anything about what’s waiting just around the corner…we only know that we all are going to die one day. This is what we all have in common.

My greatest adventure then, is following my children grow up and helping them discover the world, themselves and their special gifts and possibilities.

My daughter, my eldest child, is now turning 24. Even if she has travelled with us to many places in the world, her greatest adventure was living and working with nature issues in New Zealand. She stayed for two months, learned many important things, and was a different person when she came back home.

My son has not yet been working abroad, but here he is hiking the Azoric island of Flores. A great adventure for us all.

So…following the two of them along their different paths…

…on their adventures – is my great adventure. And the thing is, that you never know what’s waiting around the corner. What is prepared just for you? Surely an adventure worth entering upon!

Travel theme: Merchandise

7 september, 2014 / Leya / 11 kommentarer

Merchandise is the theme this week at Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack? I got hooked up on eggs – why not participate yourself and display something totally different?!

Cherry hats

A Goodbye to Summer

7 september, 20147 september, 2014 / Leya / 37 kommentarer

The last visit this year to our summer place…meant some thinking and some walking and some …just being. A long goodbye in pictures – a last day of summer beauty – sunny and warm. You are welcome to accompany me on this farewell walk yesterday, from daybreak to a cavalcade of sunset!

But…My Hideout then…? Men, Mitt Gömställe då…?

3 september, 20143 september, 2014 / Leya / 17 kommentarer

Idag är en jobbig dag – vi har sågat ner stora buskage i trädgården och ska (enligt husse) ta ner två stora tallar som har blivit alltför höga. Fjolårets storm landade ju en av björkarna på taket…Men, det hela kom som en blixt från klar himmel. Jag har inte fått någon förhandsinfo Alls…Jag behöver inte säga mer – bilderna talar för sig själva…

Today is not a funny day – my master has taken down a lot of bushes and trees in our garden and we have to cut down and remove two giant fur (fir) trees that’s grown too big to handle if a new storm comes this way. At least that’s what my master says. Last year one of the birch trees fell over our house, and now he has gone crazy cutting down every tree we have…I had no idea this was coming…no one told ME. I don’t have to say any more …let the pictures speak for themselves…