Texture from Cee this week! One of my favourite textures is from New Zealand, South Island and the great Glaciers. We stayed for several hours – just enjoying.
Thoughts
Something worth waiting for!
Ola Salo from The Ark is one of my absolute favourite Swedish artists. Some years ago I learned that he was going to do Jesus in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. I just had to see it. Ola Salo is very talented. He’s got a good voice and his father is a priest. Now this makes it even better – the son of a priest acting the son of God! Who could do this better – potentially? Salo is also a phenomenon on stage (a glam rocker with his band The Ark) and not to speak of his good looks – he is a Jesus look alike.
Unfortunately the tickets were impossible to get – sold out in a couple of minutes only. Every show. But – last weekend I saw Jesus Christ Superstar in Karlskrona. Starring Ola Salo! The group had decided to do one more tour with the show (5-6 years after the first and only one…). I got tickets, I GOT TICKETS. Maybe I sound like a teenager now, but this was something I really had been waiting for. The musical first came to Copenhagen when I was 12 something, and then I was too young to be interested…I guess I have been waiting about forty years (40) just to see Ola Salo as Jesus!
Here’s an interview with him as well – enjoy!
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Mysterious
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
A world of roots in February
Mysterious grass world…
Hidden in another mysterious world – look closely…
A sunny, summer, lichen world …
For more mysterious worlds…click here!
Vårkul – Spring fun!
Hundarna är som galna. Den gamle, Mille, fyllde 12 den 13 mars men beter sig som en yngling. Den lille, Totti, som snart fyller 6, beter sig lika tokigt. Vår i luften!
Spring is in the air! Mille and Totti are crazy with joy, they play and run and fight…they definately don’t want to stay indoors…Mille turned 12 the other day – but no sign of age there…maybe a tiny bit more tired in the mornings, but fiery outdoors as usual. Totti is more modest, but extremely playful when Spring feelings hit him!
Got ye!
Come on Totti…!
A nap would be great now…don’t disturb!
Oh, no…napping again!
Travel theme: Pink
Pink comes in many different hues. My three beautiful flowers – One sunlit pelargonia, a soft spring magnolia and a lovely student of mine at last year’s ball!
For more of Pink, go to Ailsa on Where’s My Backpack?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
Reflektioner – kan innebära så olika saker, men i WordPress kan var och en välja sin egen tolkning.
Reflections – could be interpreted in many ways, but in WordPress Photo Challenge you can choose your very own…These three different ones speak for themselves…
…but, what you see could maybe depend on what kind of glasses you put on…
…and also on the very little things in life…
…and maybe what mood you are in just then, in that particular moment
The Book Thief – to read, watch and love!
När jag hade läst Markus Zusaks Boktjuven var jag förtrollad av hans språk och att en så ung författare kunde skriva så fängslande och använda så spännande grepp. Förra veckan såg jag filmatiseringen av romanen, och jag blev inte besviken. Få filmer gjorda på goda böcker blir riktigt bra – den här blev det. Gå och se den!
The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak, narrated by Death and set in World War II Germany.
The Book Thief
2013 Film
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7.7/10-IMDb
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Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel, an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family and Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For Liesel and Max, the power of words and imagination become the only escape from the tumultuous events happening around them. This film is a life-affirming story of survival and of the resilience of the human spirit.
The movie (131 minutes) was released in November 2013, directed by Brian Percival. Narrator Roger Allam.
This is a great film. The Book Thief has wonderful photography by Florian Ballhaus, an excellent musical score by Golden Globe and Oscar winning John Williams, and best of all, marvelous acting from Sophie Nelisse as the young girl, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as her adoptive parents, and Ben Schnetzer as the Jewish boy they hide. ”Death” is the narrator, just like in the novel. The power of the story and the brilliant acting compensate for any short coming you might find.
I cannot imagine a more perfect cast for this film, and I loved every moment with Rush and Nelisse together. Their friendship and love for each other sparkles. I have always enjoyed Geoffrey Rush in his movies, but here – he made my heart melt. Just go and see it!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Purple
Purple is my mother’s favourite colour. So for Cee I have chosen one wild flower, a second flower from my garden and the third beauty is my favourite orchid.
Pasque flower at Kjugekull, Skåne. These flowers are quite rare and you are not allowed to pick them or dig them up to plant in your garden.
Cranesbill geranium from my garden. Lovely flowers in bouquets and especially together with orange and yellow flowers.
Cattleya. Photo from my dear friend Börje’s greenhouse. Cattleyas are easily grown in your own window – flower generously and are found in a great variety of colours.
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Inspiration
Anne Frank once said: How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. This is something as inspirational as it is important to realize…
Inspiration är temat för Esenga denna vecka. Jag väljer att visa två bilder från Naturvetardagarna i Lund förra veckan, där forskare vid universitetet föreläser om sin forskning för studenter från hela Sverige (och deras lärare.)
Den första handlade om skogen och hållbar utveckling och den andra om att hundar och andra rovdjur faktiskt är värmesökande missiler. Forskaren fotograferade med värmekamera och kunde konstatera att den kalla nosen förmodligen används för att lokalisera bytesdjur med hjälp av den värme detta djur utstrålar. Inte bara doften skulle alltså styra rovdjuren, utan kroppsvärmen från bytet. Forskaren lyckas förmodligen bevisa detta, eftersom han till exempel redan tränat upp hundar att plocka ut den varmaste av flera uppvärmda lerkrukor.
As Ese wants to know what gives us inspiration, I immediately thought of our day in Lund last week – visiting the Science Days where lecturers at Lund University introduce science students from the whole of Sweden (and their teachers) to new scientific research. Inspirational indeed!
Here are two of them that I was fortunate enough to listen to. The first one was about trees (of course I had to listen to this one!) and sustainability, and the second one about dogs and other predators being heat-seeking missiles. They are able to track down their prey not only because of the smell, but also because of the heat the other animal is radiating. The scientist photographed the dogs and other predators in infrared, and tried to prove his theory that their noses are kept cold (using an intricate system in their heads) so that they can find their prey through feeling its heat. He was clearly going to succeed in proving this, because he had already trained dogs on heated pots – they could easily pick out the warmest pot of them.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Charles Morgan
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
From WordPress this week – Inside. And this is what happens to troublesome students…
Single ones are put in a wooden box…with a light bulb of course…
…and if they are many – we just lock them up in a wind turbine – no light!
Leya 
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