Navigare Necesse Est

Selfportrait

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

 

 

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

 

MONOCHROME WEEKLY

 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK MY FRIENDS!

TYRA

The old beacon at Ängskär

Monochrome 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.

 

Blackberry 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.

 

TYRA

 

 

Just blow

Monochrome Maniacs

Nica having fun blowing bubbles at a picnic in Mariefred. 

  Breath in…..blow

Bubbles

Have a great week my friends/ LOLove Tyra

Highgate Cemetery LONDON

Monochrome Maniacs

Today I’m going to show you some pictures from my visit to this amazing place called Highgate Cemetery, just about one hour from the City of London’s hectic pulse. I’m a huge fan and admirer of this enchanted spot on earth. It lush, green, so very beautiful and calm.

Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery - details

The cemetery’s grounds are full of mature trees, shrubbery and wild flowers all of which have been planted and grown without human influence. ( I don’t think that is completely true) I found a numerous wild flowers like for instance Bluebells Scilla non-scripta and Ramsons Allium ursinum. The guide told me that in a few weeks the wild poppies Papaver will bloom and can you imagine the red ‘lanterns’ lighten up the grounds. It must be wonderful. The grounds are a haven for birds and small animal. The cemeterys tree crowns form a wonderful most amazing canopy and the sound in the cemetery or the lack of noice is overwhelming.

Highgate Cemetery 'Sir Basil'

‘Although its most famous occupant in the east cemetery is probably Karl Marx (whose tomb’s attempted bombing in 1970 is still recalled by some Highgate residents), there are many other prominent figures, Victorian and otherwise, buried at Highgate Cemetery.’ Facts from Wikipedia read more here

Tranquil Sleep Highgate Cemetery

If you want to visit The Highgate Cemetery I recommend you to go to the official website of Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust

Highgate Cemetery
Swain’s Lane
Highgate
London
N6 6PJ

Telephone No. (+44) 020 8340 1834

Have a great week my friend/ TYRA

 

MORE LONDON

Monochrome Maniacs

The More buildings.

LONDON The MORE

 

Morning are my favourite time of the day and this morning was no exception.

 

TYRA

 

 THE MORE LONDON 

Mister Baby

Monochrome MONDAY

Supermario

An old photo from the early eighties of  Mister Baby Supermario.

I wish you a great Monochrome Monday/TYRA

Handarbete – Needle work

Handarbete

Tänk vad fridfull och avkopplande det är med lite handarbete. Att sitta en hel dag i lugn och ro och pyssla med något handarbete, inte slå på TV:n utan sätt på radion istället. Här sitter Missy M och broderar blommor på ett vitt linnetyg som hon skall ha till ett litet draperi i hennes walk-in closet.

Peaceful and relaxing, the hours just pass away very quickly, time just seems to fly away. It’s a little bit odd when you think of what you are doing… something that takes such a long time to complete. On this picture Missy M is doing a floral embroidery on white linen, it’s for a small drapery that she is going to use in her walk-in closet.

Akbar the great’s Tomb. Sikandara

This is from the a most magical place, Sikandara India. I arrive one early evening to look at the Tomb of Akbar. Jajaluddin Muhammad Akbar son of Humayun and grandson of Babar. The sun was just about to set and the evening was warm and quiet. It’s is something about this place, I cannot say what it is…. Indian Feng Shui I suppose. In the garden in front of the building there were a lot of deers, mazingly beautiful peacocks and monkeys, no flowers but a lot of lush trees.    

Akbar the great ruled 1556-1605. He founded a vast empire from Kabul to Assam and Kashmir to Ahmednagar.

Akbar was a polymath: an architect, artisan, artist, armorer, blacksmith, carpenter, construction worker, emperor, engineer, general, inventor, animal trainer (reputedly keeping thousands of hunting cheetahs during his reign and training many himself), lacemaker, technologist and theologian. WOW!

more from my journey to India…….

TYRA