I choose wood this time, for Cee. This very old cupboard of wooden lockers I found at the long bowling club in Galashiels, Scotland. I just adore it. Still very much in use!
Thoughts
Travel theme: Purple
Ailsa’s theme is one of my favourite colours – purple. For more of this colour, click here.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers
Containers… sometimes containers don’t contain what we expect them to…
För more surprises, click here!
Home again
After being totally enchanted by Scotland and the Scots – I hardly know where to begin…so much to catch up on of reading and so much to tell!
First of all, I want to thank my blogging friend Seonaid at breathofgreenair, for having us a whole delightful evening in her lovely home. Unforgettable hospitality and my admiration is neverending. More time – I think both of us wished for that…. Hopefully we will meet again – I still have not experienced the Tattoo either…
If it hadn’t been for Seonaid’s advice – we’d never had seen her beautiful Plockton near the Isle of Skye. A drizzle early in the morning, but the views truly calm and serene. Not a wind.
For some seconds – a little less rain. Light unbelievably…light and soothing.
Not many people were out this early morning. No hurry. A lifetime of Time it seemed…
Suddenly there were more colours, more life. Flowers everywhere. The rain had stopped.
Post number One thousand
I saw it when I posted Wedding – this post will be my number 1000 on WordPress. I have enjoyed it immensely – the blogging and the photographing. The reading and the friends I have ”met” and – actually – Met. In reality.
Thank you all of you out there who read me, follow me or just drop in to – Leya. I’m so grateful that you enjoy the little things in my world. It’s you who made it all possible and who still are making it possible for me to go on blogging.
What will be suitable for a post number 1000? Maybe some of my favourite photos? Maybe a combination …?
I lost my faithful companion, Mille, this spring. His name, Mille, he got because he was so special, one in a thousand. Mille. Mille Grazie to him for having him in my life for twelve years, and Mille Grazie to all of you for being part of my life. May we stay together and exchange pictures, thoughts, advice, recipes, book and film tips – and so on – for at least another 1000 posts and many more!
I wish you all a great summer – or winter! See you again in a couple of weeks – I’m off to Scotland to enjoy this beautiful and enigmatic country once more. Hopefully it will not rain all the time…as it did for three weeks in 1978 when we visited last. Never mind the weather…I’m so looking forward to meeting one of my blogging friends there!
Wedding!
At my age, I’m more often attending funerals than weddings… Luckily our children’s friends are coming of age…and on rare occations… we are invited to this great feast of joy – a wedding.
A mix of cultures makes these occations even more interesting. Enjoy a mix of pictures where the bride and groom entertain their hundreds of guests – playing and singing in a band. A lovely wedding for young and old, for musicians and everyone invited! Thank you!
Travel theme: Twist
I don’t know if this qualifies as a ”twist”, but I was playing around with photosketcher – and this is the result. Find more twists here.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Squares-Triangles-and-Angles
This challenge made me think about how many of these squares, triangles and angles we find in an ordinary house – in this case an old cottage, a ”Blekingestuga”. For more on this theme – click here.
In the tiny rooms of this particular cottage, everything from ceiling to floor seems to be made up of these angles…
Miss Jenny Samuelsson from Kuggeboda, Blekinge, gave this cottage to the museum – now to be visited by everyone coming to their garden.
From the outside you can see the tinyness of this cottage – a remembrance of how poor people used to live in the old days.
Turning my lens to the modern buildings just some 50 metres from this cottage – the houses still have these angles and squares …and colours. A brilliant merge of old and new architecture.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts
Contrasts – impossible…couldn’t stop myself here…There are so many possibilities so it had to be a gallery. Some of them I have used before, but they work together as well! For more contrasts, click here.
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.
Leya 
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