Post number One thousand

8 juli, 20148 juli, 2014 / Leya / 57 kommentarer

I saw it when I posted Wedding – this post will be my number 1000 on WordPress. I have enjoyed it immensely – the blogging and the photographing. The reading and the friends I have ”met” and – actually – Met. In reality.

Thank you all of you out there who read me, follow me or just drop in to – Leya. I’m so grateful that you enjoy the little things in my world. It’s you who made it all possible and who still are making it possible for me to go on blogging.

What will be suitable for a post number 1000? Maybe some of my favourite photos? Maybe a combination …?

I lost my faithful companion, Mille, this spring. His name, Mille, he got because he was so special, one in a thousand. Mille. Mille Grazie to him for having him in my life for twelve years, and Mille Grazie to all of you for being part of my life. May we stay together and exchange pictures, thoughts, advice, recipes, book and film tips – and so on – for at least another 1000 posts and many more!

I wish you all a great summer – or winter! See you again in a couple of weeks – I’m off to Scotland to enjoy this beautiful and enigmatic country once more. Hopefully it will not rain all the time…as it did for three weeks in 1978 when we visited last. Never mind the weather…I’m so looking forward to meeting one of my blogging friends there!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

30 juni, 2014 / Leya / 39 kommentarer

Contrasts – impossible…couldn’t stop myself here…There are so many possibilities so it had to be a gallery. Some of them I have used before, but they work together as well! For more contrasts, click here.

Midsummer 2014 – In Sweden, through My eyes

23 juni, 201423 juni, 2014 / Leya / 32 kommentarer

Totti and a lovely little girl

The big flea market is also a must…

…here you can find anything and everything

Some real beauties too

Waterlilies cover the little lake

A stroll in my garden – and it is mostly pink!

10 juni, 201411 juni, 2014 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

I used to make a wreath every Midsummer for my daughter

This is another very old bush rose, called ”thousand-leaves rose”

The high jasmin hedge fills the night air with a heavenly scent

The poppies rained away yesterday…

…but the others are still standing

I love these dark irises

Weekly Photo Challenge: Room

7 juni, 2014 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

This week’s photo challenge is called Room – for us to interpret the way we feel. A room for me to love, must contain flowers and plants and it must contain books. As books and humidity don’t go that well together, my real dream will never come true. There will have to be at least two rooms… But, here’s a dream medley, finished off with what comes closest – in my home.

Books are of course essential in my room

And flowers – orchids are not wrong…

…colours and shapes…

…and divine compositions…

…in a warm stillness.

I admire people who don’t tear down buildings – but recreate. This is the old railwaystaion hall in Madrid.

Thank you, Mille

11 maj, 201411 maj, 2014 / Leya / 60 kommentarer

I don’t know what to write, I don’t know what to say. Who would think this was one of the last photos of you, my Mille? My Iron Man. My friend and my faithful companion for twelve years. My heart is aching with every beat and my thoughts are only with you. All is tears and sorrow. But you went home in my arms, surrounded by your family.

You came to us May 9, 2002 and left us May 9, 2014. Isn’t that strange. I feel so very empty. Dried out. My boy is gone. Gone but yet never…gone. You will live for ever with us – a true and remarkable friend will never be forgotten. I know you are running free over ever green meadows and into an enchanted forest clad in cones for you to chase, and there will be a sea waiting for you at the end of the trees, where you will catch enchanted bubbles the whole summer.

Thank you, Mille, for being with us for twelve enchanted years. You will live for ever in our hearts and in our thoughts.