The yearly visit to Bergslagen

Every year we go for a short walk among the old wooden houses and the roses in Bergslagen, Ronneby. https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/9685/

As you can see from last year, compared to now, the roses are here already. Everything in nature is early this year, and we all wonder what flowers will remain for us to see in July? I hope you enjoy the old houses and their sometimes equally old roses.

Travel theme: Shine

For the Travel theme at Ailsa’s, something shining it should be…I chose this Flower chafer who was sitting in a heavenly white and pink peony where I  admired him for some minutes.

 

Midsummer 2014 – In Sweden, through My eyes

Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows

Fönster har alltid varit viktiga för oss – inte minst i länder där ljuset behöver komma in under de mörka  vintermånaderna. När jag var barn hade man dubbla fönster med bomull/ull emellan och ibland eterneller därpå.

Inga fönster är mig kärare än de enkla fönster vi har i sommarstugan. De är mycket gamla, med flagnande färg och gistet trä som gör dem svåra att öppna och stänga. Men de är – Sommar. Det andra fotot visar S’t Mary’s Church i Scarborough, som har sällsynt vackra fönsterbågar.

Windows have always been important to us, and I think maybe especially in countries where they are much needed for the light during the dark winter months. When I was a child many windows were double and had a string of cotton or wool in between the two window glasses. Sometimes people decorated with flowers or herbs there as well.

To me, no windows are more beautiful  than the simple old windows of our summer house. Their colouring is fading and their wooden frames so worn that they are no longer easy to open and close…but they are – Summer. The second photo shows St Mary’s church in Scarborough – where I simply fell in love with both the windows and their frames.

Weekly travel theme: Still

In the still of the night…Midsummer’s Eve 2013.

Still waiting for something Still? Go to Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? for more of it.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Yellow and blue…what can I do? I just have to!

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Visit Cee for entries more spiritual than mine…I felt I had no opportunities this time – our flag being our flag…

Travel theme: Ripples

Ripples – a lovely theme! There are so many beautiful entries at Ailsa’s Where’s My Backpack? You just have to go there and see them!

My own contribution should have been one from the waters at Ronneby Brunn, but Ailsa’s own ducks are so lovely. Instead I picked a photo with very calm ripples from the sea by our summer house. Ripples of blue and green. Sometimes the sea is a dream of colours and illusions – but always soothingly beautiful.

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