a confident creature…. polestar 2

For me Tesla is a very sexy car, maybe the sexiest of all … or up there with the Jaguar, but now it has got competition – Polarstar 2!!! Of course, cars can be sexy and why not???!!!! And it’s …

cce’s fun foto challenge – summer scenes

“If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.” Josef Koudelka This gallery is all about our Swedish summer at it’s best! “Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. …

tuesday photo challenge – tree

Trees!!! This week it’s all about one tree … and it’s to be found at Wanås Castle here in the southern part of Sweden. Circumference: 760 cm and over 500 years old. It’s called the Snapphaneeken (Snapphane oak) “This oak …

cce’s fun foto challenge – winter scenes

“In photography, you’ve got to be quick, quick, quick, quick. Like an animal and a prey.” Henri Cartier-Bresson The winter 2010-11 was a really serious winter here in the South of Sweden … and also 2012-13 was cold but after …

the queen of the light

She comes to us early in the morning of the 13th of December with her maids and sings for us, Sankta Lucia. Every school, hospital, TV channel, intuitions, hotel, larger working places, department store, airport, organization, church, and home with …

10th december – a dynamic date

It all started with dynamite and ends up with the most spectacular banquet in the world. Frist a little about Mr Alfred Nobel, Mr Dynamite – born 1833 in Stockholm and died in Italy 1896, he became 63 years old. …

tuesday photo challenge – peace

Frank, what a fantastic topic this week – PEACE!!!! Why is it so hard … and why haven’t we learned????!!! For this challenge is there only one way for me to go … and it’s so fantastic that Swedish art …

34.60SEK – $3.60 – £2.80 – €3.26

…. for ONE organic cucumber?????!!!. Was at our budget supermarket Lidl today and I want a cucumber, but the only ones they had were organic – there was no price so I went to the customer scanner and that is …

tuesday photo challenge – fantasy

Fantasy???!!!  “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” Lloyd Alexander As a child, I had a very lively imagination. I was very lonely as a child and I always made up fantasy stories … …

a photo a week – in the neighborhood

The city of Landskrona is usually claimed to have been founded in 1413 by the King of Denmark, Eric of Pomerania, as a trading city intended to compete with Danish towns under the control of the Hanseatic League. There is …

a photo a week – sun & water

“Let’s go somewhere the sun kisses the ocean” Unknown I don’t have to go fare … only 15 min walk from home. It’s all on my doorsteps. The whole of my adult life has I lived where the ocean has …

lens-artists photo challenge #64: countryside

Amy, the countryside in my county Skåne (Scania) is very open … it’s a farmer county. Here we grow apples, grapes, sugar beets, leek, strawberries, onion, flax, potatoes, salix, corn, gains, pees, and of course rapeseed. We have about 7999 …

a photo a week challenge; traditions

They say that if you are a true globetrotter is this one of the world festivals that you shouldn’t miss – up there with Rio, Madi Gras and the Carnival of Venice. Sweden’s Midsummer (‘Midsommar’ in Swedish) is the quintessential …

my music moods (proud to be …)

…. a Swede in many ways, my heart is truly blue and yellow … our little country has in many ways made the difference to the world; lighthouse beacon flashing light, the dynamite, Skype, the pacemaker, the blowtorch, Volvo, multi-row …

the blooming time now come with great joy and beauty

“The blooming time now come with great joy and beauty: you approach the sweet summer, when grass and crops grow. With gentle and lively warmth to all who have died, the sun’s rays to approach, and everything gets re-born. The …