Travelling Again…

So, I will have to say goodbye for a while, again. Hopefully I will be back before Christmas. I want to thank you all so very much, readers, followers and friends who come visiting, liking, remarking, discussing – keeping me alive!

This trip will take me far away to a country I have never visited before. I am very excited about it, and I hope to tell you – and show you – more when I come back. Until then – have a great and joyous December!

 

Travel theme: Forest

Travel theme: Forest

Oh, Ailsa…where to begin…? My favourite motif and my major love – the Forest. Of course I love my own forest best…and in spring when the wild apple trees and cherries greet me when I walk across the meadows to where the forest starts. But…

Tane Mahuta

Tane Mahuta

Te Matua Ngahere

Te Matua Ngahere

Te Matua Ngahere

Te Matua Ngahere – full view

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…the Kauri forest on the North Island, New Zealand, is so impressive, dense and full of giants when you least expect it…I have never seen anything like it and I just never wanted to leave.

On the South Island, we met another type of mystical forest on our way to Milford Sound –  The Enchanted Forest.

Cee’e B&W Photo Challenge: Any Geometric Shape

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Any Geometric Shape

Gaudi´s Bishop’s Palace in Astorga, for Cee’s Geometric Challenge.

WPC: Magic

Jen at WordPress asks us to bring along some magic…Some of the most magical memories I have, are from the Moroccan desert – the Sahara night. This, is true magic to me.

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Cee’s B&W Challenge: Any Tracks And Trains

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Any Tracks and Trains

Late night in Riga. We rode one station too far and had to walk back. A bit scary though…

Thursday Thoughts – A Story of …Love

In Vilnius I saw this young couple coming out of a church. They did not hold hands. The young lady was holding her dress instead. He was walking casually right behind her.

In one of the old city’s most famous spots, they were photographed.

They looked so young…yet I believe they had known each other for a while. No infatuation shining, no signs of being ”in love”. I watched them silently walking down the street – no sign of guests or friends. Still not holding hands. Half an hour later we saw them sitting on a bench in the square, munching some fast food and watching the air balloons sailing across the sky.

I wonder what they were thinking. I wonder about their lives and their future. I would have liked to listen to their story.

WPC: Tiny

Cheri at WordPress urges us to walk into tiny worlds this week. Personally I love tiny worlds – I believe many of us do! In the header a tiny beech leaf, fallen and resting on the forest floor among blueberry twigs to be. And, below are the tiniest ants I have ever met.

Inside Your Head

”I wish I could look inside your head.” Have you ever had such a wish…or are you mostly happy not to know what is hiding inside people’s heads?

To be able to look inside everyone’s head is of course not what I want, but sometimes, I do wonder – how certain people really think, or work.

The two candidates for the precidency, now…soon we will know who is the winner and who is the loser. Never has the world seen a more strange campaign…At least  over here, we all worry about what will happen next. And, not only concerning the two candidates.