Old wooden church in the Museum Park.
Photo from October, 2010, with glowing autumn colours.
This is the last of my Calendar shots.
To see the rest of them, scroll back over the past two weeks.
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Adding a few interior shots from the Museum Church
(I might have shown some of them before):
The museum church is popular for weddings and also used on other
special occasions, but regular Sunday services are not held here.
The objects within the church come from different old churches.
The December picture in my calendar: Christmas Market
in the Town Square, with fires to warm yourself by.
I think they need to get those fires out again!! It has been a ‘strange’ winter (and it’s not over yet). December 2010 broke cold records. So does February. In between, January was periodically mild and slushy, but did not properly get rid of the snow, just made a mess of it.
Just now, in spite of the days inevitably getting longer, and the sun shining from a blue sky, we’re having another cold spell. Far up North it’s been below –40°C. Here in the South West, -15°C in the night/early morning is more than enough, ‘thank-you-very-much’…
Sorbus intermedia or Swedish Whitebeam is widely grown as an ornamental tree in northern Europe, commonly used in avenues and urban parks. It grows to 10–20 m tall. The leaves are green above, and densely hairy with pale grey-white hairs beneath. The autumn colour is dull yellowish to grey-brown. The fruit is an oval pome 15 mm long and 10 mm diameter, orange-red to red, maturing in mid autumn. The fruit is dryish, and eaten by thrushes and waxwings, which disperse the seeds. (Wikipedia)
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The Friday My Town theme of the week is “twisted, curly, contorted, wound spirally”. It has been an extra challenge for me over the past two weeks to match partaking in the weekly photo memes with showing the pictures I chose for my wall calendar. As for my November picture, I don’t think it needs any extra twisting though, since the branches of the tree are naturally twisted!
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Here are some other pictures from my archives for the FMTSO theme:
Sculpture “Tornado” by Birgert & Bergström
(one of my favourites)
Sculpture “Declination” by Tony Cragg
(not really one of my favourites)
Sculpture “Non-Violence” by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
(not much head-scratching needed to get the message)
Christmas lights twisted round the branches of a tree in the Park.
Twisted, curly murals framing the doors in the old Courthouse.
And this is my latest hobby, while waiting for spring:
Recycling my old pictures into kaleidoscopes!
Also called Getting a New Perspective
of Familiar Surroundings…!
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Monica
I admit this is a bit of a stretch just to get my calendar picture to fit with the Watery theme of the day… But did you know that 80-85% of an apple is water?
Not watery enough for you? Okay, then… Let’s put the apple in the water instead. Most of the “%” in the apple that aren’t water, are air! That’s why they float.
Pure miracle really that they also manage to taste so good, isn’t it?
‘2sweetnsaxy’ (host of Watery Wednesdays) also suggested something reminding of Valentine’s Day for this week. Perhaps the apple reminds more of temptation than of true love – but still… I think the two apples in the first picture make a “sweet couple, cheek to cheek”… ;)
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For more wet pictures, visit Watery Wednesday
Photo from the Open Air Museum, August 2010.
The gate in the foreground may seem a bit oddly placed, but it was
part of an exhibition of (new) garden gates, spread around the park
among the old buildings. If you’d like to see more of that exhibition,
click here to go to the first post in a series from last summer.
And aren’t I lucky… A young couple with a pram
in the picture, too, to fit the Valentine’s theme!
♥ ♥ ♥
To see more RED visit Ruby Tuesday
Red Water Lilies in the River, July 2010.
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Hard to imagine
in winter those summer days
when you seek shadow…
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For more shadow shots, visit Shadow Shot Sunday.
Photo from mid June, 2010: Start of the summer holidays…
Still a bit cold to go swimming, but what’s the hurry?
A whole long summer still ahead, just waiting to be explored…!
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(Gives me a surrealistic feeling to be posting a summer picture today…
Haven’t been out for two days because of a raging snowstorm outside!)
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For more pictures of the sky, go to SkyWatch Friday.
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Scroll down or click here for my Friday My Town Shoot Out post.
A playground fort in one of the parks in my town (from April 2010).
This week and next, I’m showing the photos I chose for my wall calendar 2011. I think this one also fits in with the Friday My Town theme of the week - ‘Framed’; referring to framing your pictures not after, but before you take them.
Here are some more ‘framed’ photos:
Shot through the slit in a sculpture in the Town Park.
View through the front window of the bus.
The same buildings as in the photo above,
seen from the other side of the river,
framed by the trees.
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More tips how to frame your photos at Friday My Town Shoot Out.
Skipping ahead one month in my calendar to wonderful May; because I want to use the April calendar picture for Friday.
Anemone pulsatilla, Pulsatilla vulgaris or Pasque Flower (in Swedish: ‘backsippa’). A rare wild plant in Sweden, but it grows in a meadow in a Nature Reserve not far from the town where I live.
Last winter it was February that was the coldest and snowiest month. (This winter so far it was December. An exception to the rule, because usually January and February are colder here.) This picture of the ice finally breaking up and going away was taken on 24th March, 2010. I hope we won’t have to wait that long for the first signs of spring this year…
For more wet pictures, go visit Watery Wednesday.
‘Falun red’ (in Swedish ‘Falu rödfärg’) is the name of a Swedish, deep red paint well known for its use on wooden cottages and barns. The paint originated from the copper mine at Falun in Dalarna, Sweden. The earliest evidence of its use dates from the 16th century. It remains popular even today due to its effectiveness in preserving wood.
(Wikipedia)
See more Red at Ruby Tuesday
Oh, this February is a dreary month from photography point of view – at least so far. So I’ve decided that over the next two weeks (starting with this post), I am going to share pictures I chose for my Wall Calendar 2011 (which only exists in a few copies I had printed for myself, family and friends).
You will recognize today’s picture from my header. (If you happen to look at the post at a later date, the header may have been changed, though!) It is perhaps more of a ‘reflection’ picture than a ‘shadow shot’. But there is still a tension between light and shadow in it, so I hope it will be approved of as contribution for Shadow Shot Sunday.
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Mondays I will be posting collages for Mosaic Monday as usual, no calendar pictures. As for the rest, I think I’ll be able to fit most of the calendar pictures in with the other weekly challenges I’ve been trying to participate in from here lately. We’ll see how inspiration flows…
