Sylvain Landry – Women. International Women’s Day.
In the header – The old and the new China.
Young Chinese girl of today
Rome – a connecting nun.
My mother, here 79 years old. Still hiking, still curiously looking forward to things…
A woman – not passé even if she is ageing.
Doors and windows for Cee – here are two examples showing windows as doors and doors as windows. I hope that counts!
– The doors are windows in the Danish trains, and the header showing the same phenomenon in China. In a Chinese garden you will find many of these round doors, looking like and working as windows as well.
I believe we all love fabric, and we all go looking for them in the market and in shopping centres and…love to surround ourselves with them at home.
Thank you, Ailsa for always having lovely themes and keeping us going! Click here for more inspiration and join in yourself!
A Swedish fine tablecloth, woven and then cut, drawn together and ”embroidered” in this special way.
Chinese carpets – pure silk. Header – bedding in pure silk, China.
For Sylvain Landry this week – Narrow.
Some weeks ago, we went down the Yangtze River on a cruiser, and had to pass the Three Gorges Dam – the biggest dam project in the world. We went through the lock during the night, but I stayed up late to touch the wall and feel the claustrofobia…
Faces tell you a great deal about the persons you meet – and the eyes reveal even more. I love the faces of old people – their wrinkled wisdom. To be a bit bitchy – where is the wisdom in those faces being fiercely operated on (to look younger…)?
For Ailsa’s theme, Faces, I have chosen two charming couples. I hope you like them as much as I do!
Patterns is the theme for Cee’s challenge this week. Here’s one from a hotel lobby in Suszhou, China.
Har du drömt om att gå in i armén? Kan du se någon här som lyckats?
Ever dreamt of joining the army? Can you find anybody here who succeeded?
So, it was raining and …not at all what we had hoped for. This fourth visit to China. As the days went by I adjusted my mind to the drizzle and the cold. What would I do to rewire my thinking and focus?
I started to focus on people and details. To lose myself in details would most certainly reduce the weather conditions to the margin of my thinking.
And China is a country of exquisite details. Walking into the Forbidden City, I had made my decision – this was not going to be an ordinary visit. My previous ones had been made in great awe and many photos had been taken of the splendour here.
I started to focus on the little things, and not the whole city and its buildings.
I focused on the magnificent marble bridges…
The vastness of the open spaces…
The 9 or 11 small protectors on the roofs…where the Emperor resided.
I saw my chances to for once – not rush, I had been here before – but to enjoy the people too. My chances…not to go with the crowd. ..but to turn around and look at everything they were rushing by.
Endless labyrinths – but my thoughts had made their way out of them.
I went to see the Imperial Garden and its wreathing branches. But the garden was so crowded that I could not walk there. Could not stand under the trees without being pushed and knocked around.
My thoughts…went flying up in the canopy…
…and down again. Restless. I imagined my forest at home. I tried desperately to find some peace, but had to admit that in this garden of extreme beauty, it was impossible.
I think I learned something new this day. Even in trivial issues, it is always possible to rewire, to think new, to accept and find new ways. Being a teacher is the synonym of flexibility and thinking new, but when it comes to traveling, I am not used to this much bad luck with the weather conditions – for so long a time. Maybe easily overcome for an ordinary trip, but for a long journey in a faraway country – more difficult.
I was very grateful I had been here before, seeing this ancient country in all its splendour. So, I recalled the Ditan park back then, in golden Ginko leaves, and the silent morning gymnastics.
It is a very special country, China.
Leya 
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