Wordless Wednesday
Summer
LACP#208 – Summer Vibes – It’s always summer somewhere!
Andre’ of Solander is our guest host, and wants us to show our favorite activity (yes, chilling is also accepted as an activity in this context) in summer. Please visit his blog for more inspiration!
Summer vibes starts in my own garden – where the little yellow flowers make a golden carpet to the tunes of humming bees. We never cut the grass until the flowers are ready to go.
The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind.
– Jack Adam Weber
And they stay for weeks, I am sure it’s just to make my heart jump with joy!
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
– William Shakespeare
Early mornings and late evenings are alive with summer vibes – the backlit geraniums’ gracefully dance for my camera eye. Flower photography is a passion with me.
– Kellie Elmore
June is a lovely month for hiking…another favourite activity. (And I chose this walk by the sea, because we never go to the sea during the dark time of the year.)
I always make sure to choose good company. If I feel I need any company at all…
Swedish ”fika” is a must. And outdoors a summer privilege. My mother and I always had one on our long walks. And the children loved it.
– Van Morrison
Spending a quiet moment at the beach when the rain has passed. Silent and refreshing.
But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
– The Beatles
The lady flowers unfold and shine again with the warming sun…
And the sea – knows how to rest.
Summer vibes in short would be, flowers, photography, hiking, fika – and spending time by the sea.
Many thanks to Andre for guest hosting this week and for giving us the opportunity to share some “summer vibes”. Please link your response to his original here and to use the Lens-Artists Tag to help us find you. Thanks also to Jez for last week’s Seeing Double challenge. Your responses included wonderful moments captured forever. We hope you’ll join us again next week when Tracy challenges us with “Surrealism” on “Reflections of an Untidy Mind”. She’ll be followed by the last of our July Guest Hosts, Sarah of “Travel With Me” who will invite us to share three favorite images. Finally, the Lens-Artists team will return in August, when Anne will lead us with her “What’s Your Photography Groove” challenge. Until then, as always please stay safe and be kind.
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Thursday Thoughts – Summer is here!
June 1 is the first day of summer – so I looked out of my window to see if it was true…
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge#104 Summer
As we announced last week, the team has a special “surprise” for July. We are hosting the theme “Seasons” for the entire month. This week, Amy’s theme is ”Summer”.
This is My summer. My summer is my garden, and our summer house.
This year, 2020, more than ever. In Sweden we call them ”Smultronställen”, (in direct translation:” wild strawberry places”) hidden, secret places where we find beauty, peace and solitude.
In later years, I have focused even more on giving my garden a ”wilder” face. A childhood summer face, a wildlife face, a caring for biodiversity focus.
Dead trees may lie where they stand or fall…
Wild flowers grow high and abundant before being cut down…
Hawk’s beard grow abundantly in the rear part of the garden – and they are humming with bees when turning their yellow faces to the sun.
A closer look at this part of the summer garden reveals my favorite summer flower – lavender.
– But also Cape plumbago and mallows. As always, click to enlarge.
In the southernmost part of the garden I have plum trees, cherries, elderberry, rowan, black and red currants and rhubarbs, Here there is generous space left for wild flowers.
Many insects hide in the grasses too – lying quietly on my back, I hear them going about their business.
My other summer ”smultronställe” is our little cottage by the sea. Hiking the many paths here is a joy to us all, and the summer nights are long and soft in the Scandinavian light.
Thank you for all your lovely surprises last week! I had some good laughs and some recognizing giggles – and some tears too… and, some Real Surprises!
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Thank you for your support, stay safe and well – See you!
Thursday Thoughts – Midsummer
The most beautiful time in my country, Sweden, is now – around Midsummer. The flowers and colours are abundant and it is a busy time for everything growing and for the animals raising their young.
Tomorrow is Midsummer’s Eve – in olden days a magical night. But also the night after which the bright light will start fading and we are heading towards winter.
If you celebrate or not – I wish you all a wonderful weekend –
And may you have a good night…
…should you be in Sweden, you will stay up to watch the sunset – and the sunrise. There is no real darkness in between.
Wordless Wednesday
Friendly Friday: Climate Change
is here
now
Time to act – 10-15-20 years ago. Now is the last minute – World leaders, WAKE UP!
WPC: Favorite Place
Cheri asks us to pick a favorite place where our thoughts can run free. A place to return to, at home or in a foreign country. I guess many of us have more than one spot…
In the header my mother and the dogs are sitting at my favorite spot – the beautiful old beech in the forest meadow. I walk there almost every day, and in summer I usually sit down to contemplate the loveliness of the soft wind through the grasses and the canopy.
But there is one more place of quiet contemplation, and that is the waterline close to our summerhouse. Horses and birds and foxes – and me…we all love it. It is the first and the last glimpse of water during our Blekinge summer.
WPC: Sweet
Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey…
Jam and cupcakes…
And strawberries – the queen of summer!
WPC: Transformation
Jen at WordPress gives us the opportunity to show Transformation – my choice is a poppy, one of the wonders bursting into a colourful transformation every summer.
Leya 