Midsummer 2014 – In Sweden, through My eyes

Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure

There is only one choice – or two. My greatest Treasures are my children. Nothing compares to them in my life. So much fun and happy times, so much laughter and so much Love. Thank you for being here and being you.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found in Nature

On my walks I often find things in Nature that have been put there by man, but still look like they really belong there.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found in Nature gives an opportunity to share some of them …

This open space in the forest is most certainly well travelled by many animals. The tower is for the moose hunters.

Following a narrow path, I came upon the old cellar that is all that’s left from ”Anna’s Cottage”. She lived here until about 1930.

Not ”Anna”, but another mum found in the same forest…

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Happiness

Happiness can be many things – why not to have a happy, newly married young man, rummaging with his friends in my kitchen, baking bread by candle light, wearing a funny apron? I guess Ese has many other solutions at her place!

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Travel theme: Winter

So far this year, there is no real winter here in Skane, Sweden – there is no snow. There is not even frost and it’s not remotely close to zero degrees C. Last year is another story…winter was upon us in early December and lasted for several months, in fact it was one of the ”worst ”winters ever when it comes to snow, cold and endurance…

I will have to use those lovely memories from last year, Ailsa, to really show Winter.

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Memories

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Desire

I know, I know…I have used this picture before…but – those greedy fingers are irresistable!

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Ayn Rand

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