The world as I see it
Small joy is this too, my office has a new paint and I placed the furniture differently and my space looks different which’s nice. Veikka has moved in with me, taken over the armchair I got for myself. I am rather pleased with the result. The only thing new is the paint and the new…
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Back home, enjoying the view of the pine trees from my backyard, they look nice in the early evening light
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First evening at our summer house, here I am sitting by the fire, now I can see the last moments of the sunset. This photo I took hour ago.
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My son had this Planters Pyrat XO Reserve bottle that he was about to throw away (some side information 🙂 The Pyrat gets its name from the Old English word for pirate. The stout bottle of the XO Reserve is also a tribute to this heritage.) I looked at bottle a little bit closer, I noticed that this would…
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These are such a contrast to the snow floating behind my window and this being the first day of spring. Today is the spring equinox, when day and night are about the same length all over the globe. As spring progresses, the days lengthen and the nights shorten in Finland and elsewhere in the northern…
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Practicing still life photography with Bouquet of dried flowers and garlic
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I was reminded that one should not to play with food 😀 , LOL, so I took the advice and instead I did arrangements with fruit. Granny Smith and Golden Delicious plus Oranges. Shadow and light. Bright Colors These are such a contrast to the snow floating behind my window. Enough of white already, it…
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It has been a big trend , knitting that is. I decided to be part of it. I went out and bought some yarn 🧶 and knitted myself a beanie and a warm Elizabethan collar. The technique has something to desire, but I am rather happy with the result
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I asked my husband to get something tasty to go with coffee. This is what I got, laskiaispulla. A bun with whipped cream and strawberry jam. Aah , so tasty 😋
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November’s sky is chill and drear, / November’s leaf is red and sear. ~Sir Walter Scott it is few days a way from November, the dreariest month of all, dark, wet and cold. So Even the quote is about November and we are still in October, I will take an exception on posting it as…
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Yellow is the colour which is closest to light. We associate the rays of the sun and the stars with it. It is the radiance of the spirit. Ueli Seiler-Hugova
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I drove to the lake to take photos of a swan family, but they were not there, so I’ve added a photo my son took the night before. We are enjoying beautiful weather in Finland at the moment, but we must take all the joy from now, as you never know when it ends.
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Time to enjoy and relax
Read MoreAt this week shades of colours are found from hyacinth. Kollaasi 223 (11/2020)!
Read MoreAt this week shades of colours are found from chrysolite. I am having so much fun planning and doing these collages and at the same time going through my photo archives. Discovering photos I did not remember I’ve taken. Some are truly finds 🙂 So much for modesty! I did three just for the fun of…
Read MoreAt this week shades of colors are found from sardius. The shades of colors do offer lots of variations.
Read MoreWaiting in the car and killing time taking pictures
Read More215 (3/2020) is the color for this week at Värikollaasit Kalkedon. I did to variations this week.
Read MoreThe tunnel to the railway station was always dirty, full of graffiti, dark and dingy. Nowadays it is colorful, bright and no one has yet done any graffiti art or scribble there which is a nice surprise
Read MoreWow, two weeks in a row. Värikollaasi 211 (52/2019) Joulun värit! ( Xmas Colors is the theme this week.
Read MoreIt has been ages since I participated in any photo collage “challenge” Here is my entry for Värikollaasi 210 (51/2019)
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