Lund

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pick a Topic from My Photo

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Always inspirational – Cee – this time we are to show our inspiration from her photo! I guess we all are inspired by each other, but such a fun idea to really show it in a challenge.

My pick is in the red, grey, green, container and industrial area. For more fun, click here

# 64 Farväl – Farewell (121/365)

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Farväl – till vapnen. A Farewell – to Arms.

I Lund finns denna kopia av Reutersvärds berömda skulptur. En absolut favorit bland svenska konstverk.

Non-Violence is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Carl R. made this sculpture after singer, songwriter and peace activist John Lennon was murdered.

There are currently 16 copies of the sculpture around the world. An original standing outside the United Nations headquarters in NY.

http://www.adk.lu.se/se/index.php?id=371

# 362 Ögonkast – Glance (120/365)

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Det var verkligen inte många av alla de hundratals råkor i Lund som spatserar, flyger, plockar pinnar, häckar – och smutsar ner… som ville agera linslöss, men den här gav mig i alla fall ett nyfiket ögonkast!

Not many of these rooks (hundreds of them during my walk in Lund) wanted to be photographed – but this one even glanced at me curiously…Even if they often are quite a nuisance – isn’t he/she rather a pretty one?

Carnival!

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Lund University is one of Europe’s oldest universities. It is consistently ranked among the world’s top 100 universities and traces its roots back to 1425. Lund University has eight faculties with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with 47,000 students.

The Lund Carnival – Lundakarnevalen…a total of 400 000 spectators in two days. I enjoyed being there again after all these years (- I believe about 35?). This time because my daughter was participating. More than 1000 students are in the parade and their inventive abilities seem to be inexhaustible…I caught only a few of them.

Even younger hat

This celebration of the arrival of Spring started in 1849 and nowadays there are three years between them. The carnival is always built on a theme, and this year it was about our future.

Having Totti at my feet (we couldn’t find a parking in the shadow) I had to move around as best I could…and, in fact I found myself enjoying the spectators inventiveness just as much as the parade itself.