Dwarf Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata ‘Acaulis’)
Tag: beauty
Black and White Wednesday ~ Lighthouse
Monochrome Madness (19)- Billnäs
One of these photos is my submission to week 19 to the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole and Laura Macky.
All details can be seen better by clicking at an image to enlarge them.
I visited the small town of Billnäs last weekend such a pictureque place. These pictures are details of one of the mills machines.
Carl Billsten founded Billnäs ironworks in 1641. In Billnäs many buildings remain from the end of the 18thcentury. Nowadays, Billnäs is known for the world-famous orange-handled scissors made by Fiskars Oy, the knife and tools manufacturer.
Billnäs has become an important centre for building renovation in Finland thanks to “Byggnadsapoteket” (the house repairing consultants) who also run courses in-house restoration. The ironworks area has a gardening history dating back more than 350 years, and the oldest plant nursery in Finland.
Billsten`s period (1641-1723)The location of Ironworks was good – In Billnäs the River Mustio has a large precipice so there was no need for larger weir. Also the transport connections from sea and land were good. Alike the needed expendable wood was received from the forests in the surroundings of Billnäs.
- More info at: http://www.billnas.fi/en/history.html
more at Monochrone Madness in a weeks time 😉
After rain
I am trying very hard to find something positive about our summer weather this year. Honestly, It is so, so hard, it has been cold (+12C )and it has been raining most of the time. BUT on the positive side you might get few good drop pics. I am rather happy with these…
Finnish countryside
Peaceful
NF Inspiring Photography – Catching light at a river bend
A Beautiful river bend at Fiskars.
NF Inspiring Photography 98 – Catching light
Värikollaasi #185
More at Värikollaasi 185
Rosa rugosa
Black brick detail
I saw these black bricks today – they were just beautiful – this is a very close detail of one.
Country road
I find these kind of roads and building very appealing.
Skywatch
North end
The Garden Pavillion
Flowers from the garden
Corridor in the garden
Welcome to the garden
Monochrome Madness (18)- Old Tallinn Town
This is my week 18 submission to the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole and Laura Macky.
These are taken from The Towers Square in Tallinn. All Photos can be enlarged by a click.
Built up from the 13th to 16th centuries, when Tallinn – or Reval as it was known then – was a thriving member of the Hanseatic trade league, this enclosed neighbourhood of colourful, gabled houses, half-hidden courtyards and grandiose churches is, quite rightly, the city’s biggest tourist draw. And the fact that it’s all neatly packaged within a mostly intact city wall and dotted with guard towers gives it an extra dose of fairytale charm.
Tallinn Old Town is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
more at Monochrone Madness in a weeks time 😉
waiting
Breakfast time
Breakfast this morning…blueberrypie, coffee and great view. Don’t mind the weather, it is summer, so outside you go…there are always blankets.
Black and White Wednesday ~ Keys
Blue Macro
NF Inspiring – Catching light
I caught the light from a window…windows, light so important to me.
more at http://nfmemes.blogspot.se/2014/06/nf-inspiring-photography-96-catching.html
Macro Monday – Red elderberry and white hydrengea
Sambucus racemosa (Red elderberry) – not yet red , and white hydrengea linked to Macro Monday 2
Silent Sunday – yawn
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Old abandoned house in Nastola
Ritva Sillanmäki Photography 