Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Green

22 oktober, 201422 oktober, 2014 / Leya / 36 kommentarer

The colour Green for Cee – I must choose spring in Sweden, because that’s my first association to the word Green. When the beeches’ leaves are at their freshest, a walk in the forest is pure joy! They flutter in the wind and when the sun shines through their fragile softness – my heart sings.

From Scotland is my next green friend. In the lovely garden I visited in Aberdeen, this giant cactus spreads its ”wings” like a ball.

And as the last green friend of mine here – moss and lichen on a bubbly, bouldery ground in the nature reserve in Kivik, Sweden.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Yellow

1 oktober, 20141 oktober, 2014 / Leya / 18 kommentarer

The Color Yellow for Cee – only one photo in my mind! This is in April this year, when I was driving home and suddenly the sun shot through the clouds, revealing the menacing storm clouds in the east. I stopped the car and used my phone.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Blue

24 september, 201424 september, 2014 / Leya / 6 kommentarer

The colour blue for Cee’s challenge – what do we think of more than the sky and the sea? To me those two represent Blue.

In the first photo is the dark blue sky with ”fireflies” from spring, and in the second one – the light shimmering , glittering sea of this autumn.

Weekly Travel theme: Blossom

20 maj, 201420 maj, 2014 / Leya / 25 kommentarer

So many wonderful colours and blossoms meet me every day now. In the early morning the yellow stands out in the fields…

…and in the middle of the day, when visiting a dear old friend of mine, she proudly showed me her little tree covered in a shower of pink.

Arriving home I went out in my garden to love the last rays of sun nesting in the cherry blossom. What would life be without Spring?

For more of Blossom, click here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Work of Art

18 maj, 201418 maj, 2014 / Leya / 45 kommentarer

Nothing beats Nature when it comes to Art.

Early in the day this little coot was doing her morning toilet standing in a pool of water. She was silently watching me while going about it.

Moss and lichen are small but beautiful works of art. Together, earthen brown and light green are naturally soothing and mind lifting.

My last picture for work of art belongs to a series of morning views in my blog Warden Spirits. Early morning mist over the fields.

Travel theme: Rivers

13 maj, 201413 maj, 2014 / Leya / 31 kommentarer

To catch a river of beauty I don’t have to travel far away…

…this is Almaån in Sweden, close to my home.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers

3 maj, 20143 maj, 2014 / Leya / 37 kommentarer

Flowering now in Sweden, Skåne, are these beauties:

Magnolia tree

Marsh marigold or kingcup

Hackberry

Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring

3 maj, 20143 maj, 2014 / Leya / 44 kommentarer

I think spring to me is a feeling…filling me from head to feet…when walking in my forest late in the evening. In the green flow of the fragrant beeches, listening to the clear melodies of the thrush in the canopy and the little strong voiced wren in the dark shrubbery below. Standing in the clearing the soft fragrance of hackberry fills the air, and I just breathe – Spring.

Everything is near and still far away…and I…am here, in the moment, in my self, in nature. Reborn.

Easter in my little world

16 april, 201416 april, 2014 / Leya / 38 kommentarer

Easter is here – let’s have a colourful miniparade celebrating it! This morning in my garden and in my town – Happy Easter!

De vackraste vilda vårblommorna – The most beautiful wild spring flowers

10 maj, 201310 maj, 2013 / Leya / 25 kommentarer

Blåsippa – hepatica

Wood anemone

…grows like a white carpet under the trees

Gulsippa – buttercup anemone

Förgätmigej – forget-me-not

Kabbeleka – marsh marigold

…grows where it’s wet

Tibast – mezereon

Skogsviol – forest violet?

Spring!

These are the most longed for Swedish spring flowers, and finally they are all here. The ones I do not know the names of I would be happy to get from you!