I love summer but autumn has a special place in my heart. Autumn is the most beautiful season with vivid colors and the crispy air on a sunny September day. The forest is loaded with mushrooms and berries and the green moss ground in the forest are sprinkled with leaves in all the shades of yellow and orange.
My photo challenge friend Ellen owns a cabin at Ble and a little while ago I was invited to stay there for a week end. The cabin is situated in the forest below Blefjell in Buskerud (Norway) so there are a lot of hiking possibilities both in the mountain and in the forest. We normally bring our dogs too but this time the dogs stayed at home, there is a mystical illness among dogs in the Oslo area these days and no one have found out what is the cause for this illness.
We both love photography so we hoped for proper weather for some cool shots. Friday evening was all rainy so we spent the time in doors by the fire, knitting. Saturday was a little bit rainy, but we went for a walk anyway. Saturday afternoon was sunny and warm so we had our dinner out doors. Sunday was OK, I slept too long (not a good thing for photography…..) so after breakfast the sun had disappeared, but we had a nice walk that day too.
Here are some shots from the trip:
Lichen on birch
Droplets on lingonberry leaf
Sunny cloudberry leaf
Blueberries and lingonberries
Outdoor dinner
Forest mushrooms
Coffee in the mountains
I love these trips up to my friends cabin and the shots in todays post represent what I like so much about these trips 🙂
Have a lovely week!
The theme for the last photo challenge I have each month with my friend Ellen was “many” (like in “a lot of”. It is always fun to have a photo challenge together with one or more friends because different people will solve the challenge differently. I always photograph things I can see, but from time to time I get ideas to make a composition but not very often. My friend Ellen is a more creative photographer and she is very good at combining these to ways of solving the task. So in this post I got permission to show Ellens photos together with my own.
Ellens Photos
Both shots are beautiful but the one with all the books is my favorite 🙂
My photos
Our next challenge is “Architecture”. It will be interesting to see how different we are able to solve that task 🙂 Anyway this way of training our photographic skills is very inspiring.
A few days ago when I came home form work our little garden was crowded with butterflies. All summer it has been crowded with bumble bees and flower bees but now they was accompanied with butterflies. The flower beds contain mostly lavender and oregano. I rushed inside to get my camera and got to work, I was lying flat on the ground hoping the neighbors wouldn’t see me 😉
I was able to shoot three different species, there were four but butterflies don’t pose for the photographer so I had to be satisfied with the three of them, all so beautiful.
This summer the forest is back to normal compared to last years dry summer where there were almost no flowers and no good looking mushrooms for photography. Now the forest is full of mushrooms both edible and mushrooms which is worth a shot. Last Sunday I went for a forest walk, well, the weather was not the best for photography with heavy rain and dark skies but I was determined to find some nice mushrooms for macro photography. Here are the results (these are not edible):
This post should have been posted much earlier because now the holliday is over and I am back to work in Norway. Unfortunately I got sick the day before we left Vietnam and that is why I never got to finish mye little series about our Vietnam hollidays.
Ho Chi Minh City is a beautiful and busy city. Three days is to shott to get to know the city, but I quite liked it.
As I am a mother of two teenage girls, these theee days in HCM City was spent in Vincom shopping center, Ben Tan market, Saigon square 1 and The New Playground (a shopping center for youngsters). So no time for serious exploring of the city 😉
As we ealked around in District 1 we passed a few buildings which were coveret with green plants. There are also a lot of buildings in French Colony style, so the architecture in this city is very mixed and I find it very interesting.
It is easy to get around in HCM City, just take a taxi. We stayed at the beautuful Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon.
I am glad we spent our summer holiday i Vietnam this year. Vietnam is an exciting country to visit for those who like to do more than just sunbathing and relax. A combination of some days in a big city with a more quiet place for sunbathing is perfect in my opinion.
All the pictures in this and the three earlier posts has been shot with my omd iPhone 7+.
The last days in Nha Trang we went to two different temples. The Luong Son Pagoda and the Po Nagar Temple.
The Luong Son Pagoda was built in 1886. The White Buddha is 19 meters high and rest on a lotus throne on top of Trai Thuy Hill just behind the Pagoda.
The Po Nagar Cham Temple lies just out side Nha Trang by the Cai River. It is constructed in the period between 7th and 12th century and it was restored in the 1960s. You get a great view of Nha Trang from the Temple. There are a lot of tourists at the site and you have to buy a ticket to visit the site.
We spent one day in Vinpearl Land. Vin Pearl Land is located on an island just outside Nha Trang. It is a family park with lots of activities in addition to an aquarium and zoo. To get there you have to take a gondola ( cable car) or a ferry. We went by cable car, very nice because you get a good view over the Nha Trang area.
We spent most time in the aquarium and the zoo.
Vinpearl Land is absolutely worth a visit!
The beach in Nha Trang is very long and it is surrounded by palm trees, a very trafficated road and a lot of hotels. Crossing the road is a risky business but if you cross the road were there are traffic lights it is a little bit safer. But the beach is beautiful and the water is so refreshing 😊
When in Nha Trang you have to visit the Dam market. Here you can by approximately anything you want. But be sure to bring some water with you because it is hot and crowdy. We bought some summer clothing there. They have small fitting rooms were you can try the clothes before buying.
As we are travelling with some friends that speak vietnames and knows Nha Trang very well we have had very good help getting around in the city. They also have a lot of friends and family in the area so one evening we had a private dinner in a private home. We had a lovely dinner with traditional vietnamese food and vegetables. It was very tasty.
For a couple of years now we have planned for a trip to Vietnam and Nha Trang during our summer hollidays. Now, after a very long flight, we are finally here. We are travelling with another vietnamese family who has been in Nha Trang many times, this is our first trip to Vietnam.
During the first days of the trip we focused on resting and getting our sleep pattern on track again. It is 5 hours time difference between Norway and Vietnam. Beside sleeping a lot we have spent the days by the skimming pool only interupted by eating.
We live at Sunrise Beach Hotel and Spa which is a beatiful hotel located in Nha Trang city center just by the beach. Our room has a lovely view.
To day we went to a little fishing village, Luong Son. Here we visited family members of our travel companions and after the visit we went to have som fresh seafood just by the sea.
The vietnamese fishing boats of Luong Son are so beautiful, colorful and quite different from european modern fishing boats.
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