UMEÅ2014 European Capital of Culture
http://umea2014.se/
Nature
Travel theme: Dry
Travel theme – Wood
Träd, trä och skog – vi människor kan inte överleva på Jorden utan dem. Vi har alltid tagit tillvara och använt vår skog och det material vi får av den på ett klokt sätt, men nu är det också hög tid att sluta massförstöra denna fantastiska levande organism vi alla är beroende av – växter, djur och människor.
Mitt bidrag den här gången är ett galleri, en livscykel från liten planta till fullvuxen skog, till…ja, kanske ska den ses baklänges. Förhoppningsvis kommer denna cirkel att fortsätta som den alltid har gjort. Det är vårt ansvar.
Wood – a living organism sharing our lives. We have always made use of it, and it has always been a great source of life, and of well being for mankind and our fellow travellers on this Planet Earth.
My contribution is a little gallery, a circle of life with wood. Start at the end…Let’s hope we will preserve this valuable source of life, our forests and woods – because without them, mankind will be wiped out – and with us, every living being on this planet.
Thank you, Ailsa, for another great theme!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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!
Leya 
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