W for Water…

We have reached W in Petunias ABC in words and pictures 

I love Water! I grew up just a 5 min walk from the ocean filled with wonderful Water! This is one of the things that makes our World such a beautiful place to live. Seeing our planet from space you can understand why  it is called the blue planet! Water covers aprox 71 % of our planet.

(Picture taken on Santa Monica beach California)

Amazing really when you think about it! Not only is Water beautiful, but also vital for all forms of life. Both fresh Water and salt Water.

(Picture taken in Kristiansand Zoo)

When I moved to the countryside I wondered if I would miss living by the sea… But I found out that there was a big lake just a 5 min walk from my house!! Lots and lots of water !! I was sooo happy :-)

(Pictures taken of Hillestadvannet)

This is why I do LOVE Water! It so calming, beautiful and you get lost in the dephts of it! No matter where in the world you are where there is Water, you will always find beauty in it.  And to end this weeks theme, a picture taken on my last trip to the US :-)

(Picture taken at Multnoma Falls Oregon)

 

 

 

U for Unique…

This weeks letter in the alphabet is U ! For me it was a tricky letter to figure out… But after a little searching and brainstorming, I think I found something I am satisfied with!

My word of the week is Unique.

I think we have an Unique nature here in Norway. It doesn’t matter where you go – you can always find something beautiful and unique from other countries… Like this picture I took last year. It can look as if it was taken from a great hight over lakes – But I am just standing on a rock 1 meter above ground…

…and for me this picture is Unique as it was my first picture ever taken of a bird out in nature - which I think turned out really well…

T for…

T is the letter of the week! I think I have to go back a few months to find my contribution this Time… and to a warmer Temperature…




Who as a child hasn’t Tried to Touch the shy …
… and at Times we all fall into deep Thoughts …
There are so many different Things you can find in the sea… sometimes they are very Tiny…
and other Times it’s good just to stick your Toes in the sand…
… and a Tender Touch of a stone can sometimes give us an idea if it is safe and we can Trust it enough to step on…

More pictures and letters starting with T can be found here

S for Strange…

This weeks letter is S... and I was thinking of what I could use…  One thing that I find funny is strange things we can find arund the world.

Now there is a lot of strange things I could post here as there is really no limit to all the strange things we humans do or make… But a few pictures that I have taken this year will fit this weeks letter quite well.

First out is a little bug that was flying by us while we were out having an evening swim in our pool! It was a beautiful fluffy little thing. After googeling “fluffy bug” we found something that was very similar – and I think this little fellow is called “Flying Wooly Aphid”

The next strange picture I have in my folder is of a cloud taken while we were out boating. We had gone ashore on an iceland and got the fire going for a bbq… We noticed a strange cloud formation in the sky! “Un Demone” !!!

There are a lot of amazing architectural buildings around the world and I would love to travel around to experience them. But some of them are strange! Like this building! This is where the athletes stayed in Montreal for the olympics in 1976…

I didn’t have to go far to find the next strange thing in Montreal! This I also found really funny! To me this place – or restaurant - looked really dead! I wonder why…… hehe..

Some times a simple word in a different language can look strange to us! In Schiphol Nederland a simple thing like recyceling can put a smile on your face! You just have to be aware so you don’t take it literal – or it could end bad for some cute little four legged fluffy thing! Pet ???? Strange how they had the english words paper and waste…but not bottle…???

This is a few of the strange things I came across last year :-)

R for Riding…

This will be my first time joining the norewegian version for ABC Wednesday. The letter of the day is R!

Last summer we went to “The End Of The World”  as I wanted to show my husband bit of the surrounding areas we have here in Vestfold. And might I add that this particular place is amazinly beautiful no matter what time of year you go!

There is also a riding center for horses out there! I love riding after taking some lessons in the US when I stayed there for a year. But I haven’t had the chance to go riding the last *kremt* 15 years… But…as they say, it is like riding a bike. You never forget once you have learned to ride a horse!

Anyway – as we walked over to our car after having a wonderful afternoon just sitting by the sea side – we saw all the horses there and wanted to take a closer look! A couple of nice white ones was playing around with each other and it looked like they were having fun…

But there was another one which looked great for rideing!! It was a brown stallion trotting about in the ring! I tried to get its attention by waving some grass in my hand. It got its attention alright! He came running towards me and stopped just before hitting the fence… took the grass i had in my hand and gave me a really mysterious look…. After chewing a couple of times – he boped his head back and then SNEEZED on me!! Yeh and it was not the same type of sneeze we humans have…nooooo this was filled with green mucas (must be from the grass) and I had it all over my shirt!

The worst part was that the horse lifted up his head – looked me – and grinned with his mount – looking as if he was laughing… Sneezed on me once more before trotting off again!!!!!

No riding for me that day …

I’m wondering if that was the horse’s plan all along –