New Year - New Blog

I wish you all the best för 2012

I've started a new blog for this years challenge and I decided to try out Wordpress. You are most welcome to join me at http://christinasweden.wordpress.com/  Looking forward to follow both old and new friends.

Together

 Picking and piling stones on the westcoast of Öland a windy day in July. 

Rule of thirds, Skywatch Friday

I think it qualifies if you think of the ground versus the sky and the ruin sideways. Anyway  I like this peaceful but often very windy place by the sea on the east coast of Öland.  Visit Skywatch Friday.

The letter Y - toYs

well, there is a Y in the word anyway.....

this is a duckpond in a fair, there is magnets on the heads of the ducks and you pick one with the stick. The toy you win depends on the color under the duck and you always win something.

Reflect

both the tree outside and the sea further back

Motionless

Last weekend my neighbours grandchildren made this. Today it's all green on the ground and it's raining. No white Christmas for us this year 

Kitchen Utensils

Gingerbread cookies, a "must have" for Christmas

Spiral

Unique Camera Angle

to all of you from me - a Very Merry Christmas

Ornaments

got this from my mother many many years ago

a newcomer this year, brought back from China

Every Day Sight, Macro Monday

In the month of December I look at this every day. It's a piece of my candleholder for Advent. You can se the whole HERE in a previous post. Visit Macro Monday

Store Fronts

Behind this great front is a store that sell tea and everything that goes with it in China. The store is located in Peking, China

Religion

Not the best quality but I thought the composition they made with animals of all kinds around the nativity scene was quite fun. From a shopswindow in Borgholm, Öland. Changed the light and contrast and that helped a bit.  

Symbols, SOOC Sunday

The more symbols on a row the mightier people lived in the house. The emperor had 11.

From Peking, China. Visit SOOC Sunday.

The letter Z - Zoo

ofcourse I had to visit Peking Zoo and the pandas

a couple of young pandas playing around

The letter V - Very Strange

Today is the third Sunday of Advent (we light a candle for each Sunday four weeks before Christmas) and as I walked the dogs in the forest I found those chanterelles....... made a great omelette   

The letter Q - queued up for Christimas, SOOC Sunday

An example of outside Christmas decorations made of gran (fir or spruce in my dictionary but I'm not sure about that translation...). The wreats for hanging on the frontdoor and the goats for standing in the garden. 

The Yule goat is a Christmas symbol. Visit SOOC Sunday

Rough

I like the roughness, textures and shapes. Same ruin as in the previous post

One-Two-Three

The ruins and cross from a chapel built in the 13th Century. The lighthouse was built in 1872

Shore, Scenic Sunday, SOOC Sunday

Hard to believe it's 4'th December. Shore on the north of Öland (an island on the eastcoast of Sweden). In the far distance you can se the small island Blå Jungfrun one of Swedens national parks). Visit Scenic Sunday and SOOC Sunday