Himmelsk #5

Himmelsk er den norske versjonen av Sky Watch Friday, hos Petunia.

Hvis du har lyst til å kommentere, (og det blir jeg veldig glad for!), så kan du gjøre det på

norsk eller engelsk, bruk det DU føler deg mest komfortabel med :-)

Himmelsk is the norwegian word for heavenly, but it can also mean delightful.

This is a challenge from Petunia.

Det neste bildet er tatt for noen år siden, og er scannet fra et papirbilde.

Det er min datter som hopper fra en sanddyne i Danmark.

Himmelsk livsglede!

This is my daughter jumping off a sand dune in Denmark.

It was taken a few years ago, and is scanned from a paper copy.

Klikk HER for flere Himmelske bilder.

Click HERE for more Heavenly pictures.

Ruby Tuesday

I'm posting a quite serious, but optimistic, post for Ruby Tuesday this week. 

My husband Sigve was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year, and his only hope of survival was to receive a stem cell transplant. One of his sisters, Gerd, was a  tissue match, and she went through an uncomfortable course of hormone shots to produce extra stem cells to donate to him. 

Two months ago, on August 11th the transplant took place, 

and I am celebrating the fact that everything has gone so well, 

and my husband is well on his way to recovery :-)

The red liquid in this bag contains the precious stem cells that were harvested 

from Gerd, and given to my husband in a transfusion process. 

Prior to the transplant he was given chemo treatment. For a while his immune system was so low that he had to spend some time in protective isolation while waiting for the new stem cells to settle, and start producing the white blood cells that run the immune system. 

So behind this red door is the room where he spent a lot of time. 

Now Sigve is home, and working on the recovery process. 

It's a long and slow one, BUT HE WILL GET THERE! 

For more Ruby shots, click HERE.

Day one: Layered

One small layered rock.

And one big layered rock, at

Sydney Harbor National Park Gap Bluff. 

Amazing rock formations.

See more layers HERE.

Mellow Yellow #90

Sunset at West Cape, Norway.

For more Yellow click HERE.

Shadow shot Sunday #125

Sunday again, and time for another Shadow Shot challenge from Hey Harriet.

For more Shadow Shots click here.

Himmelsk #4

Himmelsk er den norske versjonen av Sky Watch Friday, hos Petunia.

Hvis du har lyst til å kommentere, (og det blir jeg veldig glad for!), så kan du gjøre det på
norsk eller engelsk, bruk det DU føler deg mest komfortabel med :-)

Himmelsk is the norwegian word for heavenly, but it can also mean delightful.

This is a challenge from Petunia.

Klikk HER for flere Himmelske bilder.

Click here for more heavenly pictures.

Challenge #4 - Leading Lines

"2 daughters, 1 mother and 3 cameras" is back with their next challenge, Leading lines. 

Check here for explanations. 

Click here for more Leading Line shots.

Shadow shot Sunday #124

Check out more Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet.

Photo Sunday: Field

The PhotoSunday theme this week is Field. 

All my field photos are taken this summer on 

Øland Island, off the east coast of Sweden, 

Click here for more field photos.

Challenge #3 - Architecture

It's time for another challenge from the "2 daughters, 1 mother, 3 cameras" blog. 

This week's theme is Architecture. Read their definition here.

At first I thought I'd have to skip this one, but when I went through my picture archive I found a lot that might fit the description. I had a hard time choosing, so I'm posting, probably far too many :-) 

First out is the top part of a temple in Thailand.

A beautifully decorated house in a small Swiss alpine village.

A small part of the unfinished Cathedral Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain.

A derelict housing block, that still houses hundreds if not thousands of people, 

in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

From Itacaré, a small fishing village in Bahia, Brazil.

One of the cable cars that take you up to Sugar Loaf Mountain 

in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The ruined remains of a fortified monastery off the coast of southern France 

(on the Lerrin Island, Cannes).

I had to add the next three, as they are classic examples of architecture.
The leaning tower of Pisa, Italy.

One of the Giza pyramids, Egypt.

Detail from an ancient temple, also on the Giza platau.

And not so classical, a "leaning", or perhaps more of the wobbly kind,
a life guards' stand on the city beach of Alexandria, Egypt.

Funchal Airport, on Madeira Island (located way out in the Atlantic ocean, belonging to Portugal), where the highway goes in under the runway, and what you see above the road is actually the beginning/end of the runway. The runway was rebuilt in 2000, building it out over the ocean. Instead of using landfill, the extension was built on a series of 180 columns, each being about 70m tall. For the enlargement of the new runway the Funchal Airport has won the Outstanding Structures Award, considered to be the "Oscar" for engineering structures worldwide. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports, ranks it as the 9th most dangerous airport in the world. (Wikipedia)  And yes, I have landed there! 

Well, maybe more engineering than architecture here.

The London Eye, London, England.

A night shot of Årstad Church, (built in 1890) Bergen, Norway.

And finally an example of local building traditions, where the plenitude of available materials, i.e. rocks, was utilized along with wood. The rock was typically used for the walls that faced the direction where the most harsh weather conditions would hit.

See more architecture shots here.