Morning dew
and
fog down on the meadow by the lake.
wet cold feet on the grass
a scent of Caprifolium…
October scents
Qatab Minar – Stairway to Heaven
October 11, 2009
Stairway to heaven
378 huge steps…
- Qutab Minar
Qutb or sometimes written Qutab Minar
Qutab Minar is among the tallest and famous towers in the world. The minaret is 234 feet high/ 75,2 meter and the highest individual tower in the world, made in red sandstone. Tapering 2,75 – 14,32 meter in diameter! This Qutab Minar and its monuments are on UNESCO’s World heritage list. The minar was completed in 1200 A.D and since then the tall structure has been there upright and very beautiful, keeping an eye over Delhi just like a guardian.
When I visited the minar it was great many school classes with children there to look at this amazing monument. It was a treat to watch all of them in their school uniforms, they all looked very neat and tidy and above all very happy. The minar is very sincerely looked after by the authorities much like the same as other historic monuments in India. I was amazed by how well kept it was.
Qutab Minar is a great masterpiece of Mughal Indo- Islamic architecture. It has a number of floors or storeys, which has beautiful carvings like the one on the tomb of Iltutmish. There are inscriptions all round the tower and these inscriptions reveal that Iltutmish finished the tower.
Moving upstairs inside the minar will give you a wonderful experience and counting the stairs is always a fun… for visitors, I don’t know about that. It has 378 exhausting steps, which takes huge amount of energy to reach at the top of this minar but the top of the Qutab minar gives an insight to Delhi because one get to see a bird’s eye view of this great city of India. The minar did obtain some damages because of earthquakes on more than a couple of occasions but was reinstated and renovated.
The leaning tower of Delhi…no but the minar is not that upright as it used to be because of wears and tears over the past numerous years it has been there. Closely looking at the minaret it gives you an idea that it is a bit tilted towards one side.
The Monochrome Weekly, with our host Aileni
TYRA…no I didn’t climb the stairs
Read more about the amazing New Delhi.
Reading aloud
October 4, 2009In the evenings on board the boat reading aloud is truely a time of real enjoyment .
Reading aloud
Monochrome Monday
Have a great week/TYRA
Navigare Necesse Est
September 27, 2009Selfportrait
Navigare necesse est
This was the last sailing weekend for this season and the sailing was wicked with gale force wind!
Have a great week/ Tyra
Monochrome Monday
Positive Captures in a Negative Form
September 20, 2009
Ha… this was fun; I’ve been playing around with some black and white pictures from Tyra’s Garden, giving them a total make-over. Pushing a few buttons really changes the images completely. Positive captures in a negative form.
- Gergera Tyra’s Garden
Sweet pea, Tyra's Garden
Rosa, Tyra's Garden
Phalaenopsis
Vit Dahlia i min Potager, Tyra's Trädgård
HAVE A GREAT WEEK MY FRIENDS!
TYRA
The old beacon at Ängskär
September 13, 2009Monochrome weekly
The old Beacon at Klubben, Ängskär
The old Beacon at Klubben, Ängskär
This is the old beacon out at ‘Klubben’, Ängskär. I don’t know if it is correct to call it a beacon even if it hasn’t got light, it is a navigation mark from the past.
Have a great week my monochrome friends!
TYRA
Blackberry Monday – Rubus L.
September 7, 2009Blackberry Monday – Monochrome weekly
It is not about BlackBerry the smartphone device, this is about September harvest – Now it is time to harvest the lovely Blackberries and this year they are wonderful, so big and juicy. I’m going to make a Blackberry pie - I think…
Blackberry Pie Baked in the Best Flaky Pie Crust sound just great.
Bramble - Rubus L.
- Rubus L.
Wikipedia says this about the Blackberries:
The blackberry is an edible berry in the Rubus genus and the Rosaceae family. The fruit are botanically termed an aggregate fruit and they are produced on plants that typically have biennial canes and perennial roots. Blackberries and raspberries are also called caneberries or brambles. It is a widespread and well known group of several hundred species, many of which are closely related apomictic microspecies native throughout the temperate Northern hemisphere and South America. Wikipedia
Björnbär (Rubus subg. Rubus) är ett samlingsnamn på flera arter inom familjen Rosaceae, släktet Rubus. Den vanligaste är sötbjörnbär (Rubus plicatus). Björnbärskomplexet består ett stort antal arter, underarter och former, som hör till de mest svårskilda i vår flora. Odlade sorter är dessutom ofta hybrider av olika arter. De kallas ibland även “svarthallon” och “björnhallon” (se även blåhallon). Tidigare betraktade man björnbär som en enda art, vilken då kallades Rubus fruticosus.
Have a great week my friend! And hey don’t be a stranger communicate do write something.
Hair wash
August 31, 2009Monochrome Monday
Hair wash
Just a shot from this August, Nica on deck washing her hair. It has 15,2 C in the water so it was quick in and out of the water.
It is still summertime and the livin’ is easy…a few more weeks.
Have a great week my friend/ TYRA
2 2 2 2 2 2 TRAIN or in plain English…
June 8, 2009Monochrome Maniac
Steam Engine
“I would like to have – two II class tickets for the 13.58 train.”
I tought that was so funny whwn I was a small girl, well I still think it is amusing.
Say it, 2 2 2 2 2 2 train and this train is a 2 2 train called Hamra.
It’s a steam engine that I saw on my trip to Mariefred.
“This is the heart of Östra Södermanlands Järnväg (Ö.S1.J). The line was originally the SJ standard gauge line from Läggesta to Mariefred, which the Swedish State Railways (SJ) operated until the mid-1960’s when the line was closed. Ö.Sl.J., which began on a small scale at the Lina brick works in Södertälje in 1959, took after a few years over the track and station in Mariefred and rebuilt the track to 600 mm narrow gauge.” Text from wikipedia.
Mariefred – Läggesta Nedre
Stationerna längs banan heter Gripsholmsviken (tidigare Folkhögskolan) som passeras ca. 600 meter efter Mariefreds station. Efter 1 kilometer passerar man Hjorthagen med ett litet stickspår på sidan och litet stationshus. Därefter åker man mot Marielundsviken och passerar stationen Marielund där det förekommer tågmöten på lördagar, stationen har två spår samt ett litet stationshus. Efter Marielund kommer tåget in i skogen och om man tittar noga kan man på höger sida se hållplatsen Ekudden som passeras utan att stanna. Nu kommer tåget ut ur skogen och bredvid fanns tidigare ett 1435 mm spår fram som leder till Taxinge-Näsby. Nu har vi kommit till Läggesta Nedre efter nästan 4 km. Från Läggesta Nedre kan man ta SJs tåg eller helt enkelt åka samma tåg tillbaka. Wikipedia
Have a great Monday.
Greetings from TYRA in Vaxholm
Just blow
May 17, 2009Nica having fun blowing bubbles at a picnic in Mariefred.
Breath in…..blow
Bubbles
Have a great week my friends/ LOLove Tyra
