A hotel entre´ I couldn’t resist! Loved the table too…but to what use it was I couldn’t guess. Being beautiful only?
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Wonders and peculiarities
81 dancers and some crumpled paper…
BBC – Culture – JR flyposts the New York City Ballet building.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
This saying first appeared in the 3rd century BC in Greek. In 1588, the English dramatist John Lyly, in his Euphues and his England, wrote:
”…as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote.”
Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love’s Labours Lost, 1588:
Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter’d by base sale of chapmen’s tongues
Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1741, wrote:
Beauty, like supreme dominion
Is but supported by opinion
David Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:
”Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.”
The person who is widely credited with coining the saying in its current form is Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (née Hamilton), who wrote many books, often under the pseudonym of ‘The Duchess’. In Molly Bawn, 1878, there’s the line ”Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Small Subjects
These are silk worm cocoons made into little owls. Small subjects. A present from my children bought on their trip to Japan. They always give me owl – things, knowing I love owls. Somehow it was difficult to photograph them, not only because they are about the size of a bumble bee.
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Fragile
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
James Broughton
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk 100 steps or less and take new photos
This I have never tried before – taking photos almost where I stand right now. 100 steps, I think this little tour was about… 40? But, tonight there is a blizzard and I hear it roaring. When I had walked the dogs, about 6 pm, I’d had enough and stayed inside. So, indoor photos then – and only a quick look outdoors …
Tiger lily standing proudly in my window. It’s always in flower this time of the year.
It’s getting dark, so I turn on the lights in my other rooms. But, the days have grown longer and light is still lingering when I’m back from work.
Now I’m going to open the door to our garden – the wind should be hiding behind the house today if my calculations are right…
No walking on the roof today though… Last time we lit the fire for a cosy evening, the smoke sneaked in instead of out. The ladder was left there just in case…
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Imagination
Imagination – life would be unbearable without it. I was an imaginative child, and much of it was sparkled by books and all those stories hidden inside…
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock
This piece of Encyclopaedia Britannica was bought by my daughter, who used her imaginative creativity to make it end up as my birthday present!
Travel theme – Wood
Träd, trä och skog – vi människor kan inte överleva på Jorden utan dem. Vi har alltid tagit tillvara och använt vår skog och det material vi får av den på ett klokt sätt, men nu är det också hög tid att sluta massförstöra denna fantastiska levande organism vi alla är beroende av – växter, djur och människor.
Mitt bidrag den här gången är ett galleri, en livscykel från liten planta till fullvuxen skog, till…ja, kanske ska den ses baklänges. Förhoppningsvis kommer denna cirkel att fortsätta som den alltid har gjort. Det är vårt ansvar.
Wood – a living organism sharing our lives. We have always made use of it, and it has always been a great source of life, and of well being for mankind and our fellow travellers on this Planet Earth.
My contribution is a little gallery, a circle of life with wood. Start at the end…Let’s hope we will preserve this valuable source of life, our forests and woods – because without them, mankind will be wiped out – and with us, every living being on this planet.
Thank you, Ailsa, for another great theme!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition är ett roligt ord, nästan onomatopoetiskt eller ljudhärmande, om du upprepar det några gånger…I Madrid hittade jag ett flertal exempel på sådana kombinationer av levande eller döda ting som befinner sig intill varandra och medvetet eller omedvetet bildar kontraster. Några fler, och bättre, finns i ett tidigare inlägg, här i the green wall.
Idag har jag valt fyra andra exempel. Det första sida vid sida, det andra ovanpå varandra, det tredje omringande varandra och i det sista exemplet klänger de sig fast vid varandra…
Juxtaposition is a funny word, and it sounds almost onomatopoetic when you pronounce it a couple of times…In Madrid I caught some of them…the juxtapositions. I know I used the green wall in an older post with (more and better than these…I won a competition with that one) juxtapositions, but this time I have picked another four examples. They do stand in contrast, the first one side by side, the second one on top of the other, then almost surrounding each other, and in the last picture they are clinging to one another.
Somehow it’s easy to find buildings and architecture showing this, but of course you find it everywhere if you just take a look around…Find more of juxtapositioning here!
Side by side
On top of each other
Side by side and surrounding
Clinging to…
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found in Nature
On my walks I often find things in Nature that have been put there by man, but still look like they really belong there.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Found in Nature gives an opportunity to share some of them …
This open space in the forest is most certainly well travelled by many animals. The tower is for the moose hunters.
Following a narrow path, I came upon the old cellar that is all that’s left from ”Anna’s Cottage”. She lived here until about 1930.
Not ”Anna”, but another mum found in the same forest…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Family
Familj – de man känner mest samhörighet med, de som står en närmst. Oftast är det den egna familjen, bestående av kanske föräldrar och barn. Mitt bidrag blir min älskade Totti och hans ”tjej” och deras gemensamma valpar. Det var mycket spännande att se hur han skulle reagera när han mötte dem. Först mycket tveksamt – snarast lite rädd för de små…men det tog sig efter hand. Han nosade gärna med staket emellan…för de var ju lite oberäkneliga de där små. Kanske de ändå på något sätt visste att de hörde samman, för Totti var mycket snäll och de små oförväget nyfikna.
Jag behöver väl knappast förklara att Totti och Mille tillhör familjen?
Family – those who you feel closest to. Mostly your own family, parents and children. My entry is my beloved dog, Totti, his ”girlfriend” and his first puppies. It was exciting to see how well they got along, at first the little ones felt a bit scary to him, but later he was more confidently curious. The puppies adored him and were very curious from the start. Maybe they know somewhere that they are kin – I would like to think so.
I suppose I don’t have to explain that Totti and Mille belong to our family too?
First encounter outside the fence
Hello, little one!
Why…you are BIG…
Hey – are you our dad?
You stay there and sleep for a while now…
Leya 
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