Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

25 januari, 201425 januari, 2014 / Leya / 32 kommentarer

Juxtaposition är ett roligt ord, nästan onomatopoetiskt eller ljudhärmande, om du upprepar det några gånger…I Madrid hittade jag ett flertal exempel på sådana kombinationer av levande eller döda ting som befinner sig intill varandra och medvetet eller omedvetet bildar kontraster. Några fler, och bättre, finns i ett tidigare inlägg, här i the green wall.

Idag har jag valt fyra andra exempel. Det första sida vid sida, det andra ovanpå varandra, det tredje omringande varandra och i det sista exemplet klänger de sig fast vid varandra…

Juxtaposition is a funny word, and it sounds almost onomatopoetic when you pronounce it a couple of times…In Madrid I caught some of them…the juxtapositions. I know I used the green wall in an older post with (more and better than these…I won a competition with that one) juxtapositions, but this time I have picked another four examples. They do stand in contrast, the first one side by side, the second one on top of the other, then almost surrounding each other, and in the last picture they are clinging to one another.

Somehow it’s easy to find buildings and architecture showing this, but of course you find it everywhere if you just take a look around…Find more of juxtapositioning here!

Side by side

On top of each other

Side by side and surrounding

Clinging to…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found in Nature

23 januari, 201423 januari, 2014 / Leya / 37 kommentarer

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: Buzz

21 januari, 201421 januari, 2014 / Leya / 18 kommentarer

I’m an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don’t like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don’t mind it, but I don’t seek it out.

Josh Holloway

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Preoccupied

12 januari, 201412 januari, 2014 / Leya / 19 kommentarer

Upptagen…Ingen blir så fullständigt absorberad av något som Mille – och detta Något är främst vatten – vatten OCH snö innebar storslam för honom i helgen. Äntligen snö! Vi lämnade av sonen i Skövde där han studerar, och till vår stora glädje snöade det hela tiden. Vilka fina dagar för oss alla i familjen! Milles gener (gammal vattenhund från Romagna) tog fullständigt över…

Preoccupied...no one beats Mille when he finds some water AND snow! Being an old water dog from Romagna, he has not forgotten his origin…He’s ”fishing” with his paws and dips his beard and mouth into the water to catch bubbles – or whatever he sees in there. This weekend we finally got some snow and both dogs and the whole family celebrated outdoors with long walks and great joy!

My rays of light!

6 januari, 20146 januari, 2014 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

As I suffer severely from the darkness, the loss of daylight and the constant grey drizzle this winter, I decided to make a post of the short rays of light on the latest days’ walks. Maybe there are more of us who need some light – I hope you will enjoy them!

Suddenly there was a short glimpse of sunlight on these beautiful straws, resting by my path in the soft wind.

This broken twig, and its bright lichen, caught my eye inside the forest. Hit by a tiny ray, it lay glowing on the dark ground.

A dark green candle provides the soft light of my evenings.

This years’ fiery Christmas flower in my home is a colourful Hippeastrum called ”La Paz”.

May the light be with you all!

The green winter light

5 januari, 20145 januari, 2014 / Leya / 41 kommentarer

As there is no snow this winter in southern Sweden – but rain there is – mosses seem to grow more than ever in the damp environment. Shining green, they light up all the grey and the darkness. So more than ever we have a green winter this year.

According to Wikipedia, mosses are a botanical division of small, soft plants that are typically 1–10 cm (0.4–4 in) tall, though some species are much larger, like Dawsonia, the tallest moss in the world (found in NZ for example) which can grow to 50 cm in height. They commonly grow close together in clumps or mats in damp or shady locations. They do not have flowers or seeds, and their simple leavescover the thin wiry stems. At certain times mosses produce spore capsules which may appear as beak-like capsules borne aloft on thin stalks.

There are approximately 12,000 species of moss classified in the Bryophyta, a division that formerly included not only mosses, but also liverworts and hornworts. These other two groups of bryophytes are now placed in their own divisions.

Moss covering great parts of the ground under the trees.

They climb the trunks and some trees are totally covered.

Tiny brown spore capsules on their thin stalks.

Every stone is more or less covered in a soft coat of green.

Travel theme: Possibility

4 januari, 20144 januari, 2014 / Leya / 46 kommentarer

There’s always a possibility that we finally will have some snow this winter…

It would slow Totti down a bit…

…so I can outrun him!

For more and other possibilities, go to Ailsa’s place!

Skönhet i dimman – Beauty in foggy dew

26 december, 2013 / Leya / 35 kommentarer

Äntligen en stilla dag. Inte mycket ljus, men ändå. Följ med oss upp i skogen! Finally a day with no winds. Not much light, but still. There is beauty if you search for it!