31 tammikuuta 2020

Friday Bliss #73 - Lazy Winter Days




No snow this winter, but the bright side is that there is no shovelling and the streets are not slippery. 
No need to be afraid of falling down...  Last three years there has been a lot of snow in January.


Sissi asks many times a day for bird videos!I like to hear them chirping, too.



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30 tammikuuta 2020

My January in Collage


January has been grey & wet & a bit dull - but there has been a lot of tulips and reading. 
read 19 books, photographed practically nothing, instead was remembering summer and Florence.
Maybe you wish to look at my strolling on the hills of Florence - so green and beautiful!




Here you see how unispiring it looks outside!



Wishing you cosy & sunny days & a good start to February!

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29 tammikuuta 2020

Every Day Life in January


A view through my kitchen window. He have a lot of
Mr. Blackbirds in the garden.


The warming of the climate shows: January is exceptionally warm & grey. 
What to do when outside activities do not tempt? Read of course! 
I have read a lot and Sissi has kept me company.


At last I read Hemingway’s classic For whom The Bell Tolls.
The Spanish Civil War has interested me a lot and I have read earlier a few books about it.


Kersti Juva has a 50-years career in translating English literature into Finnish.
Her new non-fiction book A Discovery Trip into Finnish was a brilliant experience.
See my blogpost HERE.



Reading is tough. Sissi gets tired sooner than me and also has her manicure moment!

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28 tammikuuta 2020

We ❤︎ Yoga



I used Jutta’s original photo & added these yoga ladies balancing on the bar.



Still another edit that is quite different.
Maybe these red shapes are the spirits or souls of the yoga ladies...


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27 tammikuuta 2020

Els Quatre Gats


I had an espresso in this historical café. Els Quatre Gats / The Four Cats is a café in Barcelona, that became a popular meeting place for famous artists throughout the modernist period in Catalonia, known as Modernisme. The café opened in 1897 and served as a hostel, bar and cabaret until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona’s most prominent modernist figures, such as Pablo Picasso and Ramon Casas i Carbó. The bar closed due to financial difficulties in June 1903, but was reopened and eventually restored to its original condition in 1989.

In 1899, at 17 years old, Pablo Picasso began frequenting Els Quatre Gats and even held his first solo exhibition in the main room. The poster that now stands on the corner of the street outside the café was designed by Picasso. I do not have a better photo of Picasso's poster, but see this link. There you can see also the wonderful facade of this house.





Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem 





Cría cuervos de Carlos Saura from 1977


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26 tammikuuta 2020

In Emerald Colors




T in die neue Woche


Ateneum in the center of Helsinki, across the central Railway Station,
is a precious building hosting art exhibitions. Last spring it was František Kupka’s turn.




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25 tammikuuta 2020

The Weekend Roundup D


Starts with D:
 Demonstrators having a break.
All today's photos are from my trip to Barcelona in September 2017.


Starts with D:
 Dreadful & Dramatic


 Starts with D:
Drummer


Starts with D:
Decorations / Palau De la Música Catalana


Tom’s choice Dark

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24 tammikuuta 2020

Friday Bliss #72 - White as Snow


White tulips go so well into white winter scenery. Even though we have no snow at the moment, 
I’ll repost some white tulips from January 2018. I opened the flowers a bit
as florists sometimes do. The result is quite different.




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22 tammikuuta 2020

Red Morning Sky



The winter continues warm and snowless and the landscape looks grey & ugly, 
but the sky offers its best! Early Monday morning I photographed this gorgeous red sunrise
from my kitchen stairs. It lasted only for a few minutes and turned yellow afterwards.




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