Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Happy

18 december, 201318 december, 2013 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

If you are lucky to have children or animals – or both – you know that few things make you happier than watching them having fun together. These photos were taken autumn 2012, just after Mille’s recovery from his long and severe illness. He had gained a kilo or two and I think this is the first time he responded to Totti’s invitings to play. His old spirit was back! As you can see his fur is thin and dry and the curls are almost gone. But this moment was so precious to me – I was truly happy (and so were those two friends) – they had fun together again. Today Mille is totally recovered, with curls and all!

Hey, don’t just lie there…

Come on…

OK, you asked for it! Got ye!

Again…

Had it?

No…., here we go again!

For more of Happiness – go to Cee and maybe even join in!

Winter solstice ahead – take a dogwalk with me!

14 december, 201314 december, 2013 / Leya / 20 kommentarer

The days in the Northern Hemisphere will soon be at their shortest. That turning point is always something to look forward to – The winter solstice. This is the time at which the sun appears at noon at its lowest altitude above the horizon. This year, 2013, it is on the 21 of December – one week left.

Today there was a thin rift in the gloomy skies and a pale ray of sun shone through. It lasted for about five minutes. They were precious. I will show you…

I only had my phone today, because I wasn’t in the mood for photography in this fog and darkness.

Anyway, we finished our day in a little town nearby, buying Christmas presents. On a shelf, these two gentlemen resided (together with three more) Which made NZ and the charming Lonely Dog in Auckland pop up again! https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/lonely-dog/ ‎ Sweet memories!

On our return, 3-4 p.m. it was pit black.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Memories

8 december, 20138 december, 2013 / Leya / 30 kommentarer

Memories, well, some say you should forget the past and only live for the future. I do not think that is a wise way of thinking. I think we all need memories to be able to live for the future. I simply had to use two quotes to make this work:

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honoré de Balzac

My children when they were small. The happiest days in my life.

Occasionally I stumble upon a student who loves books and reading…and who even stays behind in the classroom when the lesson is over!

Mille came back to life again…his severe illness almost cost him his life. This photo is from April 2012, when he was home again after a stay in hospital. He had lost at least half his weight.

A happy moment when I believed we had saved this magnificent bird. We found him exhausted under a tree and took him to a wildlife specialist. Unfortunately he couldn’t be saved in the end.

A Christmas greeting from a student – found one morning on my locker at school.

My always smart, funny, inspiring and lovely children – thank you for all the happy, hilarious and wonderful moments we’ve had together so far!

For more great memories, visit Ese!

Orättvist…Unfair!

4 december, 20134 december, 2013 / Leya / 41 kommentarer

Vi måste få klaga nu här.. för det har kommit till våra öron att matte tänker åka bort några dagar – utan oss! Och dessutom ska hon träffa en stilig och kul kille som vi borde ha fått träffa vi också – nämligen Yarri. Han bor långt upp i Sverige, närmare bestämt i Jämtland. Meeen, det är inte rättvist alltså…vi skulle ha busat och farit runt i snön och vi skulle ha skällt och bråkat och vi skulle ha lagt beslag på varandras ben och…jaha. Men nej.

Matte har i alla fall lovat ta med bilder hem på killen så att vi får beskåda en drever i riktig närbild. Och få snusa doften av honom lite grand också. Och som tröst i förväg har hon lagt in extra bilder på oss både här och under våra namn här i listen på bloggen – titta på oss där! Vi har också fått extra gott godis hemköpt och förväntar oss ännu mer när hon kommer hem!

So…now we have to complain here…our master is leaving us for another guy! He’s called Yarri. Well, only for a couple of days of course, but still… We’d love to go with her to have som fun, but no. She says No. Yarri lives with a blogging friend of our master’s called Maria. She sounds nice too, so our master told us it would have been far too much for her if we came along as well…

At least she has put in some more pictures of us here, and, under our names on top of the blog – and that’s cool. So – we’re looking forward to more new photos and lots of good stuff for us when she returns… Wooooooof!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One item or number one

10 november, 201310 november, 2013 / Leya / 15 kommentarer

Being one does not always mean being lonely – but sometimes…Here are my choices for Cee’s challenge!

What can be more lonely than the last toy on the shelf…?

He was alone in the street – I wonder who owned him?

Feeling good

Alone in the wind and fog – a lovely pine tree

Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit

9 november, 201311 november, 2013 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

I walk the dogs – or rather, they walk me… and several times a day. That’s a habit I would not want to be without.

Their habit is to dig and to roll in the leaves, and for Mille to run ahead of us, just to be caught up with again by Totti and me.

Trees…and me

27 oktober, 201327 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 22 kommentarer

So, I’ll be away from the computer for some days… but…” I’ll be back”, as the Terminator said. See you soon – happy blogging!

Travel theme: Brown

19 oktober, 201320 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 49 kommentarer

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?

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand and Dirt

18 oktober, 201318 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 26 kommentarer

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.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Candid Shots

2 oktober, 20132 oktober, 2013 / Leya / 36 kommentarer

Cee has a wonderful task for us…Candid shots, when people don’t know they are being photographed! My last shot is a double one…That car driver didn’t know I was standing by the road aiming for the rainbow – and I didn’t know I was to end up with him instead…