Mosaic Monday: More Snow

*** … and it just keeps snowing … ***

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Thankful Friday

Friday My Town Shoot Out – Thankful

The theme for December 3rd is, in general, what are people most thankful for in your town?

This can be a variety of meanings to everyone. This could be a person, an event, a building, what a group of people are doing in the town, gifts to the town,  etc.  Or personally, what are you most thankful for in your town.

Definitions of Thankful ........

a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive

feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative

 

There are a lot of things in my town to be thankful for. For me, I think it is a combination of a lot of different things for which I am most thankful. So for this post, I made some collages. (For the location of the town, see map at the bottom of the post.)

We’re thankful for the river. Without it, the town would not be what it is.

 

We’re thankful for the textile/fashion industry heritage, and the textile museum.

 

We’re thankful for the art museum, the theatre and the library.

 

We’re thankful for the open air museum, and other buildings with interesting architecture.

 

We’re thankful for some beautiful parks.

 

We’re thankful for recent sculptures by world famous artists; and for musical events.

 

When we’re not busy complaining about them, we’re thankful we have a hospital
(also including a hospital museum, and quite a few pieces of contemporary art);
and a choice of means of public transport: railway and busses and roads.
We’re also only about an hour away from an airport, and the coast,
and the second largest city in the country (Gothenburg).

 

We’re thankful that the town is surrounded by beautiful nature and places of historical interest.

All Saints

These photos were taken about a month ago, at the beginning of October, in an old cemetery close to where I live. Since then most of the trees have lost their leaves, and nature is not so colourful any more. The last summer flowers have been replaced with evergreen winter wreaths or heather. This weekend is our “Halloween” and All Saints Day, and there will also be candles or lanterns on most graves. Have some photos of that too, but they’re still in the camera. Meanwhile I thought I could take the opportunity to post this collage which I don’t think I got round to before.

The whole shot of the chapel, added on demand…

To see previous pictures of it you can also type in “chapel” in the search box at the top of the page.

Mosaic Monday: Frosty Gold

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Speaker’s Corner

November is not the most photogenic of months in our climate, and so a good time to go back through the year and see what photos I can find that I haven’t already shared. This sculpture has been around for over 50 years and was not included in the summer’s sculpture festival.

Mosaic Monday: Frozen Leaves Collage

From the first snowfall of the year, 22 October.
It started snowing on Thursday night. By Saturday afternoon, it was all gone again.
The pictures taken on Friday by noon. A very short, slow and “careful” walk…

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Mosaic Monday: Frosty Ferns

 

 

Still playing around with some First Frost pictures from last week…

 

 

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Heather Collage

A collage from my balcony. I was rather fascinated by how this one came out without borders.
Not quite easy to determine where the breaks between the photos go.

Compare the one below, which tells “the truth”:

 

If you haven’t already “been there”, you can read more about heather in a post from 4th October at my other blog, The Island of the Voices.

City Rock

 

A rock covered with ivy is among the first views to meet you when you arrive by railway or bus. This time of the year you get a particularly colourful greeting.

The name of the sculpture is Tornado; if you’re following my other blog The Island of the Voices you might have seen it before.

Mosaic Monday: September Leaves

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Mosaic Monday: Mushrooms

We had a very rainy week last week. One of the effects of the wet weather was mushrooms popping up in the most unexpected places. You might think I’d have to go out into the woods to find all these. As a matter of fact I found them all (except one) in a patch of grass along a town street - see the background photo in the collage below. I took all of these photos  (and more) within five minutes or so.

 

 The exception is the mushroom in the middle of the first mosaic.
That one I found growing out of the gravel on a grave in the cemetery
(on the other side of the hedge to the left in the picture above).

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Mosaic Monday: Himalayan Balsam

Compare my post from 20 August: Love Has Many Names.

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Purple Cone Flowers

 

Purple cone flowers - and Peacock butterfly.

Mosaic Monday: Pretty Pink

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Orange August Dahlias

All the individual photos in this collage are straight-from-the-camera shots,
taken in the same park as the pictures of the waterfall in Thursday’s post.

The Butterfly Park

This is the park that attracts the butterflies. It is divided into different “rooms”.
The pink-blue-white room seemed to be the most popular this past weekend.

How many butterflies do you see in the last picture?

Mosaic Monday: More Butterflies

Butterflies, flutterbyes… All of a sudden there were a lot of them in the park.
Common Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell and Peacock Butterflies.

For bigger pictures of the butterflies, see my Sunday and Saturday posts.

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A Taste Of Summer

“Swinging
clusters of red, the hedges are full of them,
red-currant red, a graceful
ornament or a merry smile.”

Denise Levertov (1923 – 1997)

Peek-a-boo!

 

“Now you see me… Now you don’t…”

Earlier this week I was complaining I didn’t see any colourful butterflies around this summer. The next day, I caught sight of this one – a Small Tortoiseshell (Lat. Aglais urticae, Sw. Nässelfjäril).

Can you see it in the bottom righthand corner? Pretty well camouflaged with its wings folded, isn’t it…

Mosaic Monday: Mystery Picture Explained

Here it is again, the mystery picture from Saturday’s post.
Did I hear someone say “What is that painting doing in Mosaic Monday?”
Nah… You’re probably all too smart… You’ve figured it out already…
It IS a photo collage – made in Picasa (but the frame added in Paintshop Pro).

It was made from the same 9 pictures of dahlias as the collages below,
but with all the flowers mixed together into one.

 

 

 

 

 

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