High Over My Head – The Birch Trees And The Sky

November afternoon sky in town (view from my balcony)

 

  

Left: Birch tree “block of apartments” for town birds! (picture taken about one month ago)

Right: Three weeks ago, the birches in a town cemetery still in their golden autumn glory.

Below: Last Sunday: Defoliated birch forest out in the countryside; and “country cottage” bird house. 

 

 

 

 

Batik art by my mother’s father back in 1973.

Going out to my parents’ old house, I got off the bus a couple of stops early,
and took a roundabout walk through the woods to get there.
Just having viewed the birch trees through my camera lens outside,
as I entered the empty house I was struck by a very similar view
hanging there on the wall to greet me.

 

I’m entering this post for Friday My Town Shoot Out (‘Over Your Head’) and Skywatch Friday.

Dramatic Skies

   

Interesting clouds and light on Monday afternoon got me out on a walk…

Not long after I got home, the lawns outside my window were powdered with white again.

The Two Towers

Another view from the top of the Rock: The two dominant church towers.
(Both churches belong to the Church of Sweden, which until 2000 was state church.)
The two smaller green towers sticking up to the right belong to the Town Hall.

Skywatch Friday: Over The Roofs

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Skywatch Friday: Break

 

For a while, the rain took a break.
For a while, the train took a break, too;
stopping just under the bridge.
For a while, all was still.

.~.~.~.

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Skywatch Friday: Last Day of Summer

31 August, 2010

http://skyley.blogspot.com/2010/09/skywatch-friday-season-4-episode-9.html

Bird’s View

Photo taken through the window on the 6th floor of the hospital.

Skywatch Friday: Through The Roof

These magnificent birds are soaring over the foyer at the hospital.

 

 

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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry

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In the Deep Heart’s Core

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A Beautiful Summer Day

“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

Skywatch Friday

(14:12) Just watchin’ the clouds on a late May afternoon…

(16:11) Oh oh, maybe time to go inside soon…

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After the Rain

    RAINBOW        

 

 

 

The Colours of the Rainbow:

RED – ORANGE – YELLOW – GREEN -  BLUE – INDIGO - VIOLET

From a physics point of view, the rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours—there are no "bands." Newton originally (1672) named only five primary colours: red, yellow, green, blue and violet. Only later did he introduce orange and indigo, giving seven colours - by analogy to the number of notes in a musical scale! (I have to say, I always had difficulties identifying “indigo”.)

I also have a Rainbow post at my other blog today – The Island of the Voices. There you can read a bit about mythology and folklore connected with rainbows; and also about the phenomenon of the double rainbow.

Stairway to Heaven?

(Jacob) had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven… (Genesis 28:17)

No, I’m afraid this one doesn’t go all that far. It is quite high though. It is a footbridge over a railway:

(Just to prove I actually went up…)

Old Red Cottages (1)

 

     

 

Not far from where my dad lives there are a couple of old cottages which are owned and taken care of by a local history society. I took a walk there on Saturday afternoon (Easter Eve). Not much visible life in nature or gardens yet after the long winter, but as you can see we at least had a clear blue sky, and we’re rid of most of the snow (there are a few patches left here and there in shadowy places). There will be a couple of more picture posts from this place coming up this week.

Typically Swedish

A red wooden house with white corners, in rural surroundings - as "typically Swedish" as it gets! Whether we really want that kind of home and life or not, it is somehow inscribed in our national soul as the image of what it should be like...!

Over the River

Winter Sky

Gingerbread House with Icing

... Well, not really gingerbread, of course...

Welcoming the Sun