søndag den 30. juli 2023

Sunday Selection :: Søndagsbilleder

De sidste gyldne :: The last Golden ones

En gylden blomst i mit vilde hjørne :: A golden flower from my Wild corner

Gyldne løfter om mange blommer :: Golden promises - lots of prunes

En celle uden lås og hængsel, dog for en gylden skat er den et fængsel.
Det store æg vejede 104 g. og skjulte to gyldne skatte.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
The big one (104 g.) hid two treasures.

At finde en orkide i skoven er næsten lige så godt som at finde guld.
Det her er Danmarks mest almindelige orkide, Skov-hullæbe. Jeg har først set den i år.

Finding an orchid while hunting for mushrooms is almost a good as finding a golden treasure.
This one is the commonest orchid of Denmark, Broad-leaved helleborine, I never saw it before.

lørdag den 29. juli 2023

Månedens farve - AUGUST - Colour of the Month

Månedens farve for august 2023 er --  The colour of the month for August 2023 is




tirsdag den 25. juli 2023

Words for Wednesday, July 26 -- The Words

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Troubles led her to bow out, but the meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator.

  Essentially the aim of this meme is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given some prompts. These prompts can be words, phrases, music or images.

  Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. This fun meme includes cheering on the other participants.

  And the more the merrier goes here as well, so if you are posting on your own blog then please tell us in the comments, so that all other participants, can come along and applaud.

This post goes live at 16.01 Tuesday my time. I have found out - hopefully now correct - that this is when Wednesday begins in Canberra.

For today the prompt are:
Gratitude
Thistle
A pod of dolphins
Dance
Farmacy - Pharmacy is what I meant. Due to Blogger and spell checker not co-operating in January.
Crumbs
     And/or
Fog
Nutcracker
Belt
Mushrooms
Room
Remember

mandag den 24. juli 2023

Poetry Monday :: Cousins

Poetry Monday er en udfordring, hvor Diane fra On the Border er vores vært. Og nok engang kommer jeg til at undskylde til mine danske læsere, for heller ikke denne mandags stikord, Cousins, fik nogen danske rim til at dukke op i mit stakkels hoved. Et engelsk vrøvlevers var alt, der var krudt til.

-- 👪 👧 👦 👪 👦 👧 👪 --

 Cousins, is the theme for today. A nonsense poem was all my crazy brain could think up today. Actually I do not have dozens of cousins!

Poetry Monday is a challenge, hosted by Diane at On the Border.

Of cousins
I've got dozens.
Some long
that like a song,
Some short
that love a sport.
Most are older
and bolder,
Some are younger
and hunger
for cake and for tea.
And we all agree
that cake and tea
will fill us with glee.
Thus we congregate
and all brew and bake
Until tea and cake
Are ready for all
Then we have a ball.

--  --  --  --

Next Mondays topic: Avocados

søndag den 23. juli 2023

Golden Sand :: Gyldent sand

Vi var i Hundested for at se sandskulpturudstillingen. Den seneste måneds voldsomme regn har sat sine spor, men de fleste skulpturer er hele endnu.  Den kan varmt anbefales.
Temate er "Der var engang ... eventyr og myter"

-- ⏳ --

We went to Hndested to see the Sandsculpture Festival. It has been raining, sometimes violently so for much of the last month this can be seen in some places, but it is still worth a visit!
The theme was: Once upon a time ... Fairy Tales and Myths.

A friendly Giant ... much of the folklore was Greenlandish, not that strange, considering that the known polar explorer Knud Rasmussen lived near Hundested, when he was not out exploring.

-- ⏳ --

En venlig kæmpe. Mange af sagnene var grønlandske, ikke så sært for Knud Rasmussen boede jo udenfor Hundested, når han ikke lige var på ekspeditioner.

Modern day myth - Luffy  ...  En moderne myte, Luffy



Indenfor i bådehuset mødte vi gamle venner og nye eventyr.

-- ⏳ --
Inside the big wharf building we met old friends and new adventures.




Ham her har vist været der siden starten  --  I think he has been here ever since the very first year.

-- ⏳ --

Udenfor var der en anden gylden, men ikke helt så behagelig gæst.

Outside we met another golden creature, not pleasant up close,

It was swimming  -- Den svømmede rundt i havnen

Vi spiste også Tempurarejer med pommes frites, begge dele gyldent, og Nordsjællands bedte is i smukt gyldne vafler. Selv min is var gylden, men jeg fik ikke taget nogen billeder.

-- ⏳ --

We also ate tempura shrimps and French fried and the best ice cream of Northern Zealand in freshly baked golden cones, I even had a golden ice cream, but no photos were taken of this.

Sandskulpturfestivalens logo  --  The logo of the Sandsculpture Festival


Fjerde søndag med GYLDENGULT som farve
--
Fourth Sunday with GOLDEN as the colour

torsdag den 20. juli 2023

Words for Wednesday :: Using the Words.

In July I am supplying the Words for Wednesday.

For more go HERE

I pre-sceduled all the Words for Wednesdays posts back in January, so the Words are as new to me as they are to you. I really do not remember choosing them 🙂 I have, as is my wont, taking up the additional challenge of using the Words in the order they were given.

The Words:

Dates
Plan
A wedge of geese
Door
Shovel
Enemy
     And/or
Huff and puff
Clock
Treasure
A knot of toads
Invention
Sure

What I wrote:
Dropping the crate of dates in the grass was not on my plan for laying the coffee table in the garden, but a wedge of geese began honking just as they flew over our house, the sound surprised me, and I dropped the crate. The Writer opened the door to the shed and returned with the children's shovel I used for cleaning the chicken coop. When I asked him what for, he told me that the mole, his old enemy had been active again.

With a lot of huffing and puffing he dug away at the mole hills using the tiny shovel, while I picked up all the date and cleaned them meticulously. Tea was ready at 11 o'clock despite the difficulties. We always treasure our morning tea break, and do our best to have it in the garden whenever possible.

As we sat, still savouring the tea, crackers with cheese, and dates, a knot of toads began their croaking concert in a nearby pond. We listened to the loud, cacophonous chorus and the Writer expressed his happiness that the invention of ear plugs was done in the past. For sure the happy chorus else would have been waking us up early for many mornings to come.
Not based on any true story 😉

tirsdag den 18. juli 2023

Words for Wednesday July 19, The Words

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Troubles led her to bow out, but the meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator.

  Essentially the aim of this meme is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given some prompts. These prompts can be words, phrases, music or images.

  Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. This fun meme includes cheering on the other participants.

  And the more the merrier goes here as well, so if you are posting on your own blog then please tell us in the comments, so that all other participants, can come along and applaud.

This post goes live at 16.01 Tuesday my time, as will the last one where I supply the prompts.
I have found out - hopefully now correct - that this is when Wednesday begins in Sydney.

For today the prompt are
Dates
Plan
A wedge of geese
Door
Shovel
Enemy
     And/or
Huff and puff
Clock
Treasure
A knot of toads
Invention
Sure

mandag den 17. juli 2023

Poetry Monday :: Emojis

     I dag er temaet for Mandagsdigtet. Emojis. Ja, de der :) smiley-tingester 😉.
     I lang tid var jeg med i en udfordring, der hed Simple Daily Drawing. Men de er ikke Simple mere, så jeg er stoppet med at følge den udfordring.
     Mens jeg var en del af udfordringen, var temaet både Gnomer og Emojier, jeg er ikke rigtigt i stødet til et digt, men jeg vil gerne vise mine gnomer og emoji'er frem så her kommer de i tilfældig rækkefølge.
-- 🙂 --
     Today's theme for Poetry Monday is Emojis. Yes, those :) smiley things 😉.
     For a long time I was part of a challenge called Simple Daily Drawing. But they stopped being Simple, so I stopped following that challenge.
     While I was part of the challenge, both of the themes Gnomes and Emojis came up, I'm not really in the mood for a poem, but I want to show off my gnomes and emojis so here they are in random order.

--  😇 --

Til en start vil jeg gerne have lov at præsentere mine gnomer. Først fru Abelone,  den venlige gnom ...
-- 😀 --
Allow me to present my Gnomes. Ladies first, Mrs Abelone the smiling gnome ...


Og hr. Habakuk, den gnavne gnom  --  😀  --  And Mr. Habakuk, the Grumpy Gnome.


Så til nogle emojier -- 😆 -- And now for some emojis.

31. december 2022 tegnede jeg "You have been Cyber-mooned",
en Emoji (_|_) jeg faldt over på nettet ... men hvor?

December 31, 2022 I drew "You have been cyber-mooned"
an emoji (_|_) I saw somewhere on the 'web ... but where?

-- 😁 --

29. December var temaet Creative Emoticon og nok
engang måtte mine gnomer, Habakuk og Abelone, holde for.
-- 😠 -- 😄 --
December 29th, for the theme Creative Emoticons,
my gnomes once again came to the rescue.
 
-- 🥦 --

28. A Romantic Tale of Broccoli

-- 🧁 --

 Muffin: Gnomen Habakuk prøver på at lade som om han er en muffin. Skægget afslører ham.

-- 😋 --

16. Helicopter Ride ~ Habakuk

-- 😒 --

23. Chevron

-- 💚 --
22. Starts with L

-- 😝 --

26. Starts with M


Next Mondays topic: Cousins

søndag den 16. juli 2023

Sunday Selection ~ Garden Gold

Som vores vært Elephant's Child siger så tit, Kom med!
       -- 
As our host,  EC, so often says, come walk with me.
Pindsvinekugle, tidselkugle  --  Echinops ritro, Southern globethistle
Jo, de er faktisk så blå  --  They really are this blue

Regnvåde hindbær  --  Rain wet Raspberries

Kaprifolie, gedeblad (det er hvad kaprifolie betyder) -- Lonicera   --  Honeysuckle


Rosengalle, hjem for rosengalhvepsen  -- Diplolepis rosae --Moss gall, home of the gall wasp.

Regnvåde valnødder  --  Rain wet walnuts

Fire GYLDENGULE planter  --  Four GOLDEN  plants


Frøsøen med regndryp og masser af andemad  --  The Pond with raindrops and lots of Duck weeds.

Klokken-otte-blomster  --  Oenothera biennis  --  Evening primrose

En anden slags GULD  --  Another kind of GOLD

Og som afslutning et job for River, hvis hun boede i nærheden 
-- 
And finally a task for River, if only she lived close by


Midterste søndag med GYLDENGULT som vores farve
--
Middle Sunday with GOLDEN as the colour

lørdag den 15. juli 2023

A bit of the Words

Wordle for July12.
For the Words and more go HERE

tirsdag den 11. juli 2023

Words for Wednesday July 12, -- The Words

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Troubles led her to bow out, but the meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator.

  Essentially the aim of this meme is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given some prompts. These prompts can be words, phrases, music or images.

  Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. This fun meme includes cheering on the other participants.

  And the more the merrier goes here as well, so if you are posting on your own blog then please tell us in the comments, so that all other participants, can come along and applaud.

This post goes live at 14.01 Tuesday my time, as will the coming ones where I supply the prompts.
I have found out - hopefully correct - that 2 pm Tuesday my time is when Wednesday begins in Sydney.

For today the prompt are
Scarf
Flower
Shoes
Pick
A bevy of quail
Leaves
     And/or
Branches
Unlucky
Wind
Major
Gnome
Fingers

mandag den 10. juli 2023

No Poetry this Monday :: Ingen mandagsdigt herfra.

Der faldt mig simpelthen ikke noget ind til dagens emne: Teddybjørne.

I simply did not find anything to write about today's subject Teddy Bears.



Næste mandag / Next Monday: Emojis

søndag den 9. juli 2023

Strikker jeg en dromedar? - Am I Knitting a Camel?

Det begynder sådan her  ~ It begins like this.

Og fortsætter sådan her  ~~  And continues like this.

Tror I det bliver til en dromedar? For det ligner det altså
~~
Do you think I'm knitting some kind of camel? It sure looks like it.

-- 🐪 --

Før jeg fortsætter med dromedaren, går vi lige en tur i haven.
~~
Before continuing the story of the "knit camel" let's go for a walk in the garden.
Coreopsis på spring  ~~ Tickseed almost flowering.

Druer, de første nogensinde  ~~  Grapes, my first ever

HaveUglen har fået nye, fine blomster  ~~  GardenOwl has had new flowers

Kiwien har nye, imponerende skud  ~~  The kiwi has new, impressive growth.

Og urtebedet har to nye uter, citronverbena og strandmalurt
~~
And the herbal bed has two new arrivals: Lemon verbena and Sea wormwood, also known as Old woman.

Månebedet har fået en omgang Matrem i enden. Det er vist en ukrudt her i landet, men jeg synes det ligner små spejlæg, og kan rigtig godt lide dem.
~~
The Moon bed has had some Feverfew planted at the swampy end. It is considered a weed, but I like all the flowers looking like fried eggs.

Tante T og onkel K har været på arbejde med at vande de nyplantede matremplanter
~ ~
Aunt T and Uncle K has been at work, giving water to the newly planted feverfew.

-- 🐪 --

Og så tilbage til "dromedaren" ~~ And back to the "Camel".
Nok engang strikker jeg sokker til brug i mine japanske støvler, der er mit foretrukne sommerfodtøj.
~~
Once again I'm knitting socks to use with my Japanese boots. I love those in the summer time.
 
9 år gammelt billede af mine ninjastøvler. De virker stadig
~~
Nine years old photo of my ninja-boots - I still use them.

Jeg er sikker på at der er masser af GYLDNE farver i dette indlæg, det er jo trods alt sommer
I am sure you can find lots of GOLDEN in this post. It is Summer after all.