Thursday Thoughts – A Story of …Love

In Vilnius I saw this young couple coming out of a church. They did not hold hands. The young lady was holding her dress instead. He was walking casually right behind her.

In one of the old city’s most famous spots, they were photographed.

They looked so young…yet I believe they had known each other for a while. No infatuation shining, no signs of being ”in love”. I watched them silently walking down the street – no sign of guests or friends. Still not holding hands. Half an hour later we saw them sitting on a bench in the square, munching some fast food and watching the air balloons sailing across the sky.

I wonder what they were thinking. I wonder about their lives and their future. I would have liked to listen to their story.

Inside Your Head

”I wish I could look inside your head.” Have you ever had such a wish…or are you mostly happy not to know what is hiding inside people’s heads?

To be able to look inside everyone’s head is of course not what I want, but sometimes, I do wonder – how certain people really think, or work.

The two candidates for the precidency, now…soon we will know who is the winner and who is the loser. Never has the world seen a more strange campaign…At least  over here, we all worry about what will happen next. And, not only concerning the two candidates.

 

WPC: Chaos

This week Ben Huberman wants us to embrace chaos…so let us embrace the creatively  positive side of it. Here is an installation at Louisiana, Denmark, by Yayoi Kusama – the ” Polka Dot Lady ”.

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Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things Made Out of Plastic

For Cee’s challenge – some  plastic models of famous buildings. I did not buy the set…

WPC: Transmogrify

WPC this Friday – Transmogrify.

 

Transmogrify into something distorted and ugly or into a work of art? This house in Bilbao reflects and mirrors a bridge where a red car is passing.

Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Looking Through a Window

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Looking Through a Window

The first two from Bilbao – Guggenheim museum. You see through the the first window glasses – but also see behind you mirrored. The second you only see through.

And a lovely little cat…

…from Greyfriars’, Edinburgh.

CFFC: Houses and/or Barns

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Houses and/or Barns

A great topic from Cee – again! Here is a couple of my favourite houses and – what is left of an old barn…

I fell in love with this little abandoned house in Riga.

And this painted house in Switzerland is rather spectacular.

The Evening Charms of Lerma

We spent an evening walking in Lerma, in Castile and León, Spain. A little village the size of my home town in Sweden, but Lerma has important monuments dating from the 17th century, which were built by the Duke of Lerma, the King’s favourite.

To me, the greatest attraction here was the two main streets. One of them in the header, and in the very old part, I found this remarkable house.

Its façade and its colours caught my eye – and held it there for longer than just a moment.

The unevenness was made even more beautiful in the stray rays of the setting sun.

And further on, down the road, I also found a little door into the unknown…maybe 45 cm wide and 1.50cm high – No key. A stray…uncomfortable bench in a dark alley and some dry thistles on a stone fence…

I do love these things…

…as I loved the stork nest on the church and the lonely dog in the lonely street…

…and the charming restaurant waiting for its bustling guests arriving by 9 p.m.

I do love odd places and odd things and  – almost everything about Spain.