Winter Lace

What happened?

Taking as many fotos as ever, or even more than before... too many to choose from? After sorting through hundreds, all from 2012 and 2013 so far, time to start 2013 from the beginning. Suddenly pictures have names again.

I hope I'm back...

Magical

BBB

Bruxelles Black Bird

Fall Flavour

Beautiful fall day, aiming for the flower and finding it's small friend as well.

More Macro Monday

Blowing In the Wind

January afternoon sun

Photo Hunt Theme 08 Jan 2011: *Free Choise*

Autumn Tree 3

Photo Hunt - Foreign

Foreign ships in a foreign country
Dreaming of travelling....

Photo Hunt - Broken

We've had so much snow this winter,
much more than some years before,
and so very cold for a long time
that some trees are broken or almost broken.
Luckily this one will manage as it hasn't broken down completely yet.

Photo Hunt - Bulky

Even snow can be bulky
This poor tree is barely holding it

Photo Hunt - Veterans or Military

The veterans in our family have all passed away. We remember them always and are grateful for their contribution in getting us the free country that we have.
This picture is taken 2 years ago, when my son was in the army and they had kind of open house for relatives to come and see their premises. It was unfortunately a rainy and cold day. My son was serving in the transportation department and that day his job was to present to the interested visitors some of their vehicles and tell about their training.

Photo Hunt - Tied

Photo Hunt - Words

Words
There are so many of them in churches
written and spoken
and unspoken

Photo Hunt - Electric

Electric Art in the middle of the night

Photo Hunt - Orange

So many shades of orange
Funny that I had just posted the previous one before checking out what's the theme for Photo Hund this Saturday - a lot of orange, among other things.

Photo Hunt - Low

Some peaks at the sea from deck 13 on a ferry boat
can show some beautiful shapes down low

as well as someone flying low for one reason or another

or a get together

and a small town can look even smaller
all though the main aim was on the beautiful clouds and how you can see the rain falling down as a thunder storm just started.

Photo Hunt - Entertainment

Nature, always nature
entertaining and calm
just as you wish and need

music

friends and water

Photo Hunt - Flags

This picture is taken 30 April when students gather to celebrate spring.
On the right is the Finnish flag, the others represent different student faculties or nations or what-ever-they-are-called. A beautiful spring day that was and I managed to capture some of the flags. A difficult theme this one...

Photo Hunt - Books

Keeper of the books
Findus the Cat.
He's my favorite cat from the series Pettsson och Findus
(farmer Pettson and his quirky cat Findus)
by the Swedish author Sven Norqvist.
You can find a sample page from one of the books here.
Findus is trying to hold my wandering books in one place, it seems that the cooking related ones are his favorite...

Photo Hunt - Painted

I'm always amazed how incredibly some people can paint cars.
This shot is not good enough to show all the details, but the overall look is already amazing. The black part looks like it's really ripped off and the red flames are done brilliantly.
The mysterius greyish net is not part of the painting though but caused by all the lights and whatever reflecting everywhere,

The cleverest painter of all is though mother nature.
Here's a series of red touchesI had to include this last one, my choice of red in my garden pots