My Favourite Landscape

2 februari, 2021 / Leya / 34 kommentarer

For Terri and Sunday Stills #Landscape

My favourite landscapes – trying to understand the essence of this…leads me to Sweden, my home. The Spring forest and the open landscape with grazing cattle. My heart belongs here.

Wordless Wednesday

2 december, 202030 november, 2020 / Leya / 11 kommentarer

Thursday Thoughts – Younger Days

26 november, 202026 november, 2020 / Leya / 36 kommentarer

Walking, walking…One of the last colourful days, I decided to walk along an old road I used to walk in my younger days – in the 1980’s. I had a friend living at the end of the road, and I believe she still is.

One of the old farms was in ruins due to a fire some years ago. The remains looks beautiful still.

Spindle and old fences – and of course a red farmhouse. Sweden is renowned for its red houses with white gables.

And Milo loved the stone fences – of course. He gets a nice treat when he is climbing up on top of something. Spoilt young man…

So, Milo and I have a lot in common… many stones climbed and so many fences defied – this was a big part of being a child in a rural landscape. No playing indoors – always outdoors in the fresh air.

No matter how much we tried – we still couldn’t conjure up the sleepy sun this day – but memories of childhood days danced like autumn leaves in the air. Golden and light as feathers. Today my grandfather was born, 117 years ago.

What a Little Swirl Can Do

14 november, 2020 / Leya / 50 kommentarer

SixWordSaturday at Debbie’s – thank you for cheering me up!

Thursday Thoughts – By the Sea

5 november, 20204 november, 2020 / Leya / 29 kommentarer

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

We all needed a break, so we went to the west coast for a day. To walk by the sea. To sit in the fresh breeze. To wash away November mood.

We found more people in need of the same thing.

Some even tried the waves…maybe 10 degrees C?

I’d rather join the lonely gull…contemplating life and the ways of the world. From a safe place – out of sight.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
― William James

Thursday Thoughts – Autumn is Coming

27 augusti, 2020 / Leya / 30 kommentarer

So now we are here…Autumn is inevitably coming to the northern hemisphere.

A short drive to town – and along the road the familiar landscape is slowly turning into soft autumn colours.

Some fields are aglow in the evening light. The harvest is in and a calmness is settling over the landscape.

This year, being a farmer has been a positive thing. Working outdoors all the time, and the weather staying kind to the crops.

We have to take care of and treasure the few positive things this year – the year of corona. I returned home with a calmness in my soul and a soft smile on my lips. Just like natured showed me .