This summer I visited a small island called Aspö in the archipelago of Karlskrona . We just made a quick stop on our way to Bornholm. Aspö  has got a beautiful Citadel, Drottningskär - Queen Citadel with a lovely restaurant. Aspö also got a pilot tower Lotstorn  and you can stay over there!  Aspö Lots Torn Archipelago Hotel If you prefer a hostel they have that as well Drottningskärs Vandrarhem We however stay down in the harbor. Unfortunately the weather was not at its best but we did get around the island a bit and paid a visit to the magnificent citadel.

 Sittin’ in the morning sun
I’ll be sittin’ when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch them roll away again, yeah I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Watchin’ the tide roll away, ooh
I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Wastin’ time

Words from Otis Redding’s wonderful song

Visit our host Dragonstar  The weekend in B&W

Don’t be a stranger my friend – Do write something!   TYRA

Frosty windows

 February pictures from the garden, it is still fiercly cold out there…

The Greenhouse in Tyra's Garden

Frost on the windows

Keep warm/ Tyra

If you want to see my garden ‘in colour’ I mean in a little bit more colour welcome to The Greenhouse

MONOCHROME Weekend

Now, would you like to see this post in colour?

Just a small Skål! For the upcoming  2010.

Jag önskar er alla ett riktigt gott slut och ett gott nytt år!

I Wish You All a Happy New Year!

 October Scents

The monochrome weekly with our host Aileni

Engarn and Lonicera Caprifolium

Morning dew

 and  

fog down on the meadow by the lake. 

wet cold feet on the grass 

a scent of Caprifolium… 

Stairway to heaven

378 huge steps…

 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

Monochrome Monday

Have a great week/TYRA

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