Autumn Dew

I’s raining. Not much sun these days, so when it doesn’t rain – we go out. Totti is not much of a man for wet weather…open the door, he sticks his pretty little nose out, turns around and snuggles up in his bed. ”I can wait…”

Whe we do go out, the air is dewy soft and trees and grasses are all in pearls. In the forest, there is a dim light between the trees.

In the open, there are many different spiders and many different webs – depending on where they live and what they want to catch.

Maybe the wheel spiders are the ones we love the best – or at least those are the ones we firs recognize.

Everywhere on everything growing, you will find them. Pearls, necklaces, ethereal. When the sun shines through, they are almost lost to the eye…

…especially in the grass on the ground. But now – they are visible, beautifully intricate. And many!

From a different angle we can see how thickly woven and how close (3-4 cm ) to the ground. It must be quite impossible for a moth or a fly to get detangled from this…

On our way back, the sun finally came out and the misty dew lifted – no more spider’s web to be seen! Instead the few autumn colours shone – the spindle-tree being one of my favourites.

And back home again – my last garden flowers this year. Glorious in the sun.

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy

Four different pictures…I could not choose between them for the WPC Dreamy. Walks in the woods and then by the sea this summer. The last picture is one I first thought of throwing away…but my beloved Mille is still running there, in my dreams.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs

And here is a second entry for Signs...because something is wrong and the rest of my photos could not be shown in the post – only in my post before hitting ”Publish”?

Who’s the owner?

What happened to the water?

On a church in Perth…

New Zealand – the land of signs!

A special vote for this one from Scotland – emitting warmth and care and love!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Yellow

The Color Yellow for Cee – only one photo in my mind! This is in April this year, when I was driving home and suddenly the sun shot through the clouds, revealing the menacing storm clouds in the east. I stopped the car and used my phone.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance, and Travel theme: Strong

This week I am in for combining two challenges, the WPC and Ailsa’s Travel theme. I just could not resist this…

Of course it has to be a tree…enduring hundreds of years, every season’s challenges – rain, heat, draught, storm, frost, snow – still standing tall and strong. In Sweden no other tree but the giant old oak trees measure up to this concept.

From the Nature Reserve in Gö, Blekinge, here he is – as usual, click to enlarge. Love him!

Uglies or Beauties?

A walk in a Blekinge forest with Totti – and I found quite some junk among the trees. Do I only see ugliness in these things…or maybe there is something more to them? I don’t like things being thrown out into nature like this, but this morning I decided to find some beauty in them instead. Just to not be the usual angry and disappointed one…And, it worked for me. Does it work for you as well?

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Buildings

Buildings can be serene and beautiful too – not only functional. I have chosen the glass building covering an old cathedral in Norway, and a tree building for birdwatching in Sweden. Both are new, but somehow naturally fit into their environment.

For Cee’s challenge – Buildings – Hamar, Norway, the Cathedral ruin totally under glass cover.

The bird watching centre – Hornborgasjön, Sweden.

Who’s who – or – Whose room is whose?

I have got two wonderful youngsters at home this summer – in a couple of weeks they will be back at university and my house will feel so empty. Now, both of them are active and creative people and they interact with a lot of other creative people. But…I think every parent knows how different their kids are even if they do have the same parents and – for the most part – about the same upbringing…

My son is 22 and my daughter is 24.

What picture belongs to the life of who?

Jag har två fantastiska ungdomar hemma den här sommaren. Om några veckor är de tillbaka vid sina universitet och huset kommer att kännas så tomt…Båda är kreativa och skapande människor, men ack så olika inom vissa områden…Alla föräldrar kan nog känna igen hur stora skillnader det är på barnen trots att de verkligen har samma föräldrar och i stort sett samma uppväxt.

Min son är 22 och min dotter 24.

Vilken bild visar ”vem” av de två?

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Cee’s fun foto Challenge: Metal or the Season of Autumn

This week Cee is asking us for something metal or from the season of autumn – my choice is The Kelpies in Falkirk, Scotland.  Impressive metal sculptures that took my breath away this July.

The Kelpies, made by sculptor Andy Scott, stand 30 metres tall in the 350 hectares Helix recreational space in Falkirk. They are the world’s largest equine sculptures and towering over the Forth & Clyde Canal they form a gateway to the canal entrance. These sculptures are meant to pay tribute to central Scotland’s working horse heritage on the canals from years gone by. Read more about them in my post  here.

For more entries, click here.

 

And, thank you Cee for featuring my entry on Harvest last week!

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