Weekly Travel theme: Statues

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Grave yards are some of my favourite places for taking walks. At Highgate Cemetary in London I can walk for hours in the calm and peaceful athmosphere. The statues are all very beautiful here.

This sleeping woman was found under the ivy last year, and totally intact, in one piece of marble. She had been sleeping under the ivy for decades.

This dog is another faithful friend, just like Bobby, sculptured to stay with his master or mistress beyond death.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Texture

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Texture from Cee this week!  One of my favourite textures is from New Zealand, South Island and the great Glaciers. We stayed for several hours – just enjoying.

 

Something worth waiting for!

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Ola Salo from The Ark is one of my absolute favourite Swedish artists. Some years ago I learned that he was going to do Jesus in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. I just had to see it. Ola Salo is very talented. He’s got a good voice and his father is a priest. Now this makes it even better – the son of a priest acting the son of God! Who could do this better – potentially? Salo is also a phenomenon on stage (a glam rocker with his band The Ark) and not to speak of his good looks – he is a Jesus look alike.

Unfortunately the tickets were impossible to get – sold out in a couple of minutes only. Every show. But – last weekend I saw Jesus Christ Superstar in Karlskrona. Starring Ola Salo! The group had decided to do one more tour with the show (5-6 years after the first and only one…). I got tickets, I GOT TICKETS. Maybe I sound like a teenager now, but this was something I really had been waiting for. The musical first came to Copenhagen when I was 12 something, and then I was too young to be interested…I guess I have been waiting about forty years (40) just to see Ola Salo as Jesus!

Here’s an interview with him as well – enjoy!

 

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Mysterious

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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

A world of roots in February

Mysterious grass world…

Hidden in another mysterious world – look closely…

A sunny, summer, lichen world …

For more mysterious worlds…click here!

Vårkul – Spring fun!

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Hundarna är som galna. Den gamle, Mille, fyllde 12 den 13 mars men beter sig som en yngling. Den lille, Totti, som snart fyller 6, beter sig lika tokigt. Vår i luften!

Spring is in the air! Mille and Totti are crazy with joy, they play and run and fight…they definately don’t want to stay indoors…Mille turned 12 the other day – but no sign of age there…maybe a tiny bit more tired in the mornings, but fiery outdoors as usual. Totti is more modest, but extremely playful  when Spring feelings hit him!

Got ye!
Come on Totti…!
A nap would be great now…don’t disturb!
Oh, no…napping again!

Travel theme: Pink

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Pink comes in many different hues. My three beautiful flowers – One sunlit pelargonia, a soft spring magnolia and a lovely student of mine at last year’s ball!

For more of Pink, go to Ailsa on Where’s My Backpack?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

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Reflektioner – kan innebära så olika saker, men i WordPress kan var och en välja sin egen tolkning.

Reflections – could be interpreted in many ways, but in WordPress Photo Challenge you can choose your very own…These three different ones speak for themselves…

…but, what you see could maybe depend on what kind of glasses you put on…

…and also on the very little things in life…

…and maybe what mood you are in just then, in that particular moment

The Book Thief – to read, watch and love!

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När jag hade läst Markus Zusaks Boktjuven var jag förtrollad av hans språk och att en så ung författare kunde skriva så fängslande och använda så spännande grepp. Förra veckan såg jag filmatiseringen av romanen, och jag blev inte besviken. Få filmer gjorda på goda böcker blir riktigt bra – den här blev det. Gå och se den!
The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak, narrated by Death and set in World War II Germany.
The Book Thief
2013 Film
  • Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel, an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family and Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For Liesel and Max, the power of words and imagination become the only escape from the tumultuous events happening around them. This film is a life-affirming story of survival and of the resilience of the human spirit.
The movie (131 minutes) was released in November 2013, directed by Brian Percival. Narrator Roger Allam.

This is a great film. The Book Thief has wonderful photography by Florian Ballhaus, an excellent musical score by Golden Globe and Oscar winning John Williams, and best of all, marvelous acting from Sophie Nelisse as the young girl, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as her adoptive parents, and Ben Schnetzer as the Jewish boy they hide.  ”Death” is the narrator, just like in the novel. The power of the story and the brilliant acting compensate for any short coming you might find.

I cannot imagine a more perfect cast for this film, and I loved every moment with Rush and Nelisse together. Their friendship and love for each other sparkles. I have always enjoyed Geoffrey Rush in his movies, but here – he made my heart melt. Just go and see it!