Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Purple

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Purple is my mother’s favourite colour. So for Cee I have chosen one wild flower, a second flower from my garden and the third beauty is my favourite orchid.

Pasque flower at Kjugekull, Skåne. These flowers are quite rare and you are not allowed to pick them or dig them up to plant in your garden.

Cranesbill geranium from my garden. Lovely flowers in bouquets and especially together with orange and yellow flowers.

Cattleya. Photo from my dear friend Börje’s greenhouse. Cattleyas are easily grown in your own window – flower generously and are found in a great variety of colours.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Inspiration

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Anne Frank once said: How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. This is something as inspirational as it is important to realize…

Inspiration är temat för Esenga denna vecka. Jag väljer att visa två bilder från Naturvetardagarna i Lund förra veckan, där forskare vid universitetet föreläser om sin forskning för studenter från hela Sverige (och deras lärare.)

Den första handlade om skogen och hållbar utveckling och den andra om att hundar och andra rovdjur faktiskt är värmesökande missiler. Forskaren fotograferade med värmekamera och kunde konstatera att den kalla nosen förmodligen används för att lokalisera bytesdjur med hjälp av den värme detta djur utstrålar. Inte bara doften skulle alltså styra rovdjuren, utan kroppsvärmen från bytet. Forskaren lyckas förmodligen bevisa detta, eftersom han till exempel redan tränat upp hundar att plocka ut den varmaste av flera uppvärmda lerkrukor.

As Ese wants to know what gives us inspiration, I immediately thought of our day in Lund last week – visiting the Science Days where lecturers at Lund University introduce science students from the whole of Sweden (and their teachers) to new scientific research. Inspirational indeed!

Here are two of them that I was fortunate enough to listen to. The first one was about trees (of course I had to listen to this one!) and sustainability, and the second one about dogs and other predators being heat-seeking missiles. They are able to track down their prey not only because of the smell, but also because of the heat the other animal is radiating. The scientist photographed the dogs and other predators in infrared, and tried to prove his theory that their noses are kept cold (using an intricate system in their heads) so that they can find their prey through feeling its heat. He was clearly going to succeed in proving this, because he had already trained dogs on heated pots – they could easily pick out the warmest pot of them.


Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare


As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Charles Morgan

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

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From WordPress this week – Inside. And this is what happens to troublesome students…

Single ones are put in a wooden box…with a light bulb of course…

…and if they are many – we just lock them up in a wind turbine – no light!

Travel theme: Gardens

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Trädgårdar – jag bara måste, än en gång, ta foton från Ronneby Brunn. För några år sedan vald till Europas vackraste trädgård. Den består av många trädgårdar – här en liten vandring bland dem.

Gardens – how can I resist? Once again I will have to show Ronneby Brunn – once chosen as the most beautiful garden in Europe. It consists of many gardens – let’s have a walk together through some of them!

The Rhododendron Garden
The Garden of Scent
Peony from the Garden of Scent
The Japanese Garden
The pond
The Garden of Roses
Azaleas

For more beautiful and special gardens – visit Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Two Colours or Hues Only

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From Cee came a two colours or hues – challenge. I found two giraffes…no idea where or when they were photographed, but I guess they fit in!

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Hot

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Some like it hot…but who would guess that I was once going to quote Paris Hilton? This photo is from one of the hot areas on Iceland. Please stick to the path here…

For more hot stuff – go to Ese!


This is Earth. Isn’t it hot?

Paris Hilton

Travel theme: Tempting

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Tasty…

Healthy…

Thirsty…

And for today, March 8, the thirsty ones are the two most lovely women I know!

For more tempting things, click here.

One Trip EVERY Month Challenge: Östersund and Maria

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Marianne has begun a new challenge where you take one trip every month, near or far, and take photos or write all about it. Join her here http://eastofmalaga.net/2014/01/20/new-challenge-one-trip-every-month/

Here’s how:

  • Each month, visit somewhere and then write about your trip or describe it using photographs – whichever suits you best.
  • Don´t forget to title and tag your entry ’One Trip EVERY Month Challenge’, and link back to this page.
  • Display the Challenge logo on your post or in your sidebar.
  • HAVE FUN!

I should have gone before Christmas, but a storm closed down all transportation in the southern part of Sweden. My flight was cancelled only a couple of hours before take-off. I was finally going to meet one of my blogger friends, Maria, living in Östersund up north, and I can’t say how disappointed I was. And Maria too. We had been planning this for about half a year, and we both laughed in the phone at the disaster …there was nothing else we could do…

I had to book another flight – not until February was it possible for us to meet. I was looking forward to a lot of winter, snow and fabulous walks on their big lake, Storsjön. The trip turned out to be … something quite different, but maybe not less wonderful!

My room
The real thing – Yarri!
One good way of transporting yourself on ice
Östersund – on wet ice
Åre and the mountains
Studio glassworks – Storsjöhyttan
Hot chocolate and …..
Östersund by night

For more on Jämtland, see my previous posts: https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/en-pa-miljonen-one-in-a-million/

https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/frozen-gems-ristafallet-och-tannforsen-a-john-bauer-and-j-r-r-tolkien-dream/

And MariaYarri who is the true source of Jämtland pictures and stories!

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LIOLI#2

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Stekt lever anglaise eller suédoiseFoto: Martin Hanner, Spisa.nu

Fried liver anglaise or suédoise

2-3 persons

Ingredients

Liver 700,0 gram

Bacon 280,0 gram

Flour 0,5 dl

Butter 100,0 gram

Salt

More:

Potatoes 0,8 kilo

Creme 4,0 dl

Lingonberry jam (fresh berries – not boiled)

or capers (pickled)

How to: (25 min )

  1. Peel and boil potatoes.
  2. cut the liver into fine slices, about a centimetre. turn in flour and salt.
  3. Fry bacon and let the fat run off on a piece of paper.
  4. Heat up butter in a frying pan. When no bubbles left, put in the slices – not too close to each other. Fry 2-3 minutes on one side and 1 minute on the other.
  5. Warm the capers in the butter if ”anglaise”, or if ”suedoise” pour the cream in the pan and heat it up.
  6. Serve with capers (anglaise) or with lingonberries (suédoise).

Frying tips: Important to fry the liver fast in hot butter and not too long ( we have all tasted ”rubber”, haven’t we…) , the slices should be pink inside.

Thanks to:  Spisa.nu

This of course means that I like liver – when I cook it myself! I remember those ”rubber soles” we had to eat at school lunches…impossible for anything but shoes. But I always liked the smell and the creme sauce. My husband also loves liver, so when we’re alone I sometimes surprise him with it. And, not only for the smell. Our children are not that interested though…they were also served rubber soles at school.

So, it’s never too late – follow the frying instructions and enjoy!

And why not join in? http://margaretrosestringer.com/2014/03/04/lioli-2/

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