New Roof!
And two great guys to fix it…
…unfortunately they are not included in the prize…
…but they did a fantastic job!
Thank you so much, guys – we love it!
Cee’s fun Foto Challenge: Wheels
Wheels? Well, where would we be without them? This cottage is situated by the Kingston Flyer station on the South Island of New Zealand. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wheels
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Obsession
Listening to Eric Clapton, and Tears In Heaven, you realize that his explanation is well chosen: An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. Ese’s challenge reveals that I have many obsessions: My children, my dogs, orchids, my work, photography… I read somewhere that to cure one obsession – get another. But mine seldom go away…they pile up. I’m convinced that they are all of the same origin.
Early morning sun and cloud reflections in the autumn wetlands
The old stone bridge
The pond
Crisp open air
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
Marguerite Young
Click here to find other and more obsessions.
Travel theme: Brown
När jag var ung var brunt min favoritfärg. Jag hade bruna stövlar, bruna manchesterjeans, en brun tröja och en ljusbrun skinnjacka. Genom åren har jag alltmer börjat använda ljusare och mer färgglada kläder – åtminstone på sommaren.
Brunt är en av de mest framträdande färgerna i vårt liv och vår miljö. Jorden, från vilken vi kommer, från vilken vi får allt vi äter och i vilken vi till slut hamnar när det är dags för oss att sluta vår vandring här.
Jag tycker fortfarande mycket om brunt i alla dess nyanser. Men, jag vet också att många människor inte tycker om brunt – kanske till och med hatar denna färg…gör inte det! Den bruna jorden är en del av oss, den tillhör oss och vi tillhör den.
When I was young, brown was my favourite colour. I wore earth coloured boots, jeans and sweater and a light brown leather jacket. But, over the years, I have started to wear more colourful clothes – at least during summer.
The colour brown is all around us. It’s the colour of earth, where we come from, where we live, from where we get our food and in which we will end up in due time.
I still love this colour and all its nuances and shades. I know that many people don’t like it, maybe even hate it…please don’t! The brown earth is a part of us all. It belongs to us and we belong to it.
For more brown colours, go to Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack?
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You
In every respect, these photos are the closest I get in representing The Hue of Me. Colour, motif, light, time of the day. They also represent my greatest Love – Nature.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand and Dirt
Well, this new challenge of Cee’s gives me the great opportunity of entering some beautiful sand, directly from Scarborough.
And, also one of my absolute favourite pictures… Peppe and Nicke back from a nice roll in the dirty field!
Inte mina…men kunde ha varit
Have some more fun here.
On Gratefulness
I would like to dedicate this post and its photos to you, all warm hearted friends out there – you stood by me, were with me and my father in your thoughts. Your waves of supporting, positive thinking touched the shores of my heart again and again. Thank you for being there. For being you.
Precious Days of Extra Time
Someone has listened…and suddenly I see the autumn colours again! He is coming back to us – my father.
It is strange the way life turns…being close to the end and then waking up. Being given some precious extra time…
He is walking our paths once again, through the dense woods, turning around the bend…
…and out in the open! Breathing in the crisp Autumnal air.
Thank you.
Ese’s weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Ugly
See more of the ugly truth here.
Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you…the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ”Lying” is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
Richard Avedon
Travel Theme: Deep
The worst walk in a spiral staircase – ever – was made here, in one of the towers of Sagrada Família. It was so narrow and impossible to see the end of it from above. It was a mere deep hole in which I was to step down. Elevator up. Staircase down. No banisters. I’m not afraid of heights, but I often dream of getting stuck in narrow tunnels or holes and getting nowhere. This was a nightmare, but I made it.
This deep crater is to be found in Iceland. We never walked down, as we realized it would take some time, and the view is much more scenic from above.
”We never have much snow down here in the south of Sweden.” This no longer seems to be a fact. We do – have much snow! In 2010 we were totally snowed in and it was impossible to even get the car out. This is the view from my back door. I couldn’t open it and I couldn’t see but a small part of our ”veranda”.
For more deep things…click here.
Leya 
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