Thursday Thoughts

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Leaving for Iceland for some days – only near Reykjavik this time. We will be spending some bathing time with friends. I just realized it is 10 years since our last visit. Hopefully this will mean some good times.

Wish you all a great weekend!

Cee’s B&W Challenge: Buildings

 

Buildings for Cee this week. Buildings do get a bit more character in B&W. Sometimes much more. These from Latvia, the outdoor museum in Riga.

For more inspiration, click here.

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SL-WEEK 27: Pride

I am immensely proud of my daughter, who after high school went to New Zealand as a volunteer worker – natural science. NZ is far away from home – in fact they are our antipodes – and she did not know anybody there. I never got the opportunity to go when I was young, so a bit envious I was…

She handled it perfectly well and worked with everything from clearing the djungle to setting up traps for rodents and vermin.

This photo reached me after some weeks – and the pride I felt was overwhelming. A working girl, with knife , machete and saw – doing good things for Mother Nature. My Daughter.

Now she is studying to become a dentist, and when finished, she is determined to go back to NZ to live and work there.

For Sylvain Landry – Pride

 

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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Faraway

Cee is asking us to present something faraway. Switzerland is rather representative for this in its landscapes. I chose one traditional photo of a glacier for the concept ”faraway” and the other one following Cee’s example with something up front, close, and then the rest faraway.

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CFFC: Doors and Windows

Doors and windows for Cee – here are two examples showing windows as doors and doors as windows. I hope that counts!

– The doors are windows in the Danish trains, and the header showing the same phenomenon in China. In a Chinese garden you will find many of these round doors, looking like and working as windows as well.

 

SL-WEEK 24: Machine

Machines I’m impressed by are the mountain trains – here in Switzerland. They climb, sometimes very steep, several thousands of metres and they go down the same way. Seemingly undisturbed, effortless. And they are comfortable as well.

For Sylvain Landry. What machines are you impressed by? Join in and let us know!

 

 

Travel theme: Fabric

 

I believe we all love fabric, and we all go looking for them in the market and in shopping centres and…love to surround ourselves with them at home.

Thank you, Ailsa for always having lovely themes and keeping us going! Click here for more inspiration and join in yourself!

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A Swedish fine tablecloth, woven and then cut, drawn together and ”embroidered” in this special way.

Chinese carpets – pure silk. Header – bedding in pure silk, China.