Snowstorm in November

“Snow is nothing but annoyingly icy frozen water stuff
that falls out of the sky at inconvenient times.”

~ from Gilmore Girls, Season 5 ~

(Photoshop Filter Artistic/Sponge for enhanced effect)

Mosaic Monday: November Beach

 

 

Lake and beach near the place where my grandparents lived in my childhood;
and later on my parents.

See more Monday Mosaics at Mary’s Little Red House.

The Old Bridge

  

 

     

 

 

This bridge is in the vicinity of the stone circle in the previous post.
It was built in 1829, is 43 m long and 6 m wide.
Traffic nowadays goes over a more modern bridge close by.

I’m entering this post for Watery Wednesday

Rush Hour In The Cemetery

 

 

 

This weekend is our Halloween / All Saints Day.
A holiday which in Sweden is primarily “celebrated” by visiting family graves and lighting candles.

 

This is different cemetery from the one in yesterday’s post and much bigger. My visit there this “Halloween” Friday was before noon and I have to say I was a little taken aback as I entered the cemetery (on foot) and saw all the cars. I know it tends to get crowded towards dusk on these occasions, but I had not expected traffic jam at 11 am! In that first picture, none of the cars was getting anywhere, and someone even started honking their car horn! (That really helps in that kind of situation, doesn’t it? And so lifts everyone’s spirit on a day like this…)

 

 

 

 

 

While the traffic was lively, the lake was very still!

 

 

 

 

 

Calendar 2010: November

I'm starting 2010 off by showing 12 photos from 2009 that I chose for a monthly wall calendar.

Heavy

Reminding me a bit of the globe we live on... ;) But it's the top of a gate post leading to an old graveyard.

Tuesday Blue - Mallards

Time to Focus on Colour to Brighten Up the Grey Days

Time to Feed the Birds

Time to Light Lanterns in the Dark

Time to Start the Christmas Cleaning

In my personal opinion, the supermarket is "overdoing" it a bit...

Mosaic Monday: Coffee or Tea?

Interiors from a favourite shop of mine!
This is just the right time of year to just cuddle up indoors with a hot mug of whatever-you-like-best... (My own choice is tea!)

Looking Up

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
G.K. Chesterton

November Red

Not much colour left in the world in November in our climate, but there is still the occasional find...

Defoliated View

The Pavilion

Sticking Up

“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.
Our attention would have been on God.”
C.S. Lewis

Gate to the Past

At Home in the River

The Mallard / Anas platyrhynchos / Gräsand is a common sight all year round, as long as there is open water to be found. This was not the sharpest of photos but I liked the way the light from the inside the buildings on the other side of the river was reflected in the water on this otherwise grey day. Putting it through a number of editing steps in PSP helped enhance the effect.

A Guest in the River

One day there was this unusal sight in the river. It was definitely not one of the usual mallards, so I had to go home and have a look in my bird book. Arrived at the conclusion that it must be a  Bucephala clangula / Common Goldeneye / knipa. According to my book and Swedish Wikipedia both, it is more common in the north of Sweden, but not so often seen here in the southern parts.