Lots and lots of photos
OK I said I would post a recipe a day this week but I didn’t yesterday even though I had one ready, the reason was twofold: one was that I suddenly missed posting photos from my walks and doings, I haven’t been shooting that much lately and I realized how much I miss that so I took my camera with me on my different outings instead of blogging. The second reason is that Bron sent me a link to her new blog, I have known about her plans for quite a while now but I was still so taken aback by the beauty of the photos and her delicious recipes that I felt a bit ‘disintegrated’ and realized that I need to work much much harder here and that is what I am going to do. Will be back with recipes on Monday. She is very talented and you must click over and see it all. And read it too.
Yesterday was just as it always seem to be here right now, sun one minute and rain the next but fortunately the sun shone when I needed it. The clouds were of a particularly beautiful type, I don’t know what they are called but you can see them in the photos.
I took a walk in the woods and in the city. Me and the old people because we seem to be the only ones who take strolls here during the day but that is fine with me, I always melt when old people smile and salute me when you meet in the street. It is one of the things I have always loved about living here, your existence get confirmed by every person you meet and that is precious to me.
The shadows were striking and even more so those of trees because the leaves are not out on many of them and the shadows the cast on houses fascinates me, maybe it is the contrast between nature and civilization.
I hope you will have a nice relaxing weekend, take it easy with the cooking, our lives don’t depend on it being abundant and extravagant, let’s go for a nice meal with our family or friends or both. And if you are alone and you feel up to it, make yourself something nice to eat because in the end, we only have ourselves despite the world around us and we deserve to eat well even if simple.
I adore the last one with the sun hitting the leaf…wow!
I’m not sure what happened there, part of my comment went awol?
anyway I said was… thank you so much for being such a hunny, sharing, supporting and helping me endlessly with my blog. You rock Ilva…love ya heaps! xx
Wow Ilva.. they are amazing photos. thanks for going for a walk, cheered me up
Beautiful! I needed a bit of sunshine this morning.
Jaa du, visst är det så att man ibland fastnar hos andra och klockan bara tickar iväg
Gillar att du blir inspirerad av det och vill mer! Jag blir bara uppgiven och lägger ner. Orkar inte. kan ändå inte mäta mig med dig och alla andra som är så bra. Korkat. Ja. Och hur det gick från att bara blogga lite om mat och så till att sätta krav på sig själv att plötsligt också vara fotograf, helst grafiker, journalist/skribent av något slag och ja, varför inte publicist också när jag ändå är igång, har jag inte den blekaste aning om… Det finns bara så många saker jag behöver lägga tid på, träna på, lära mig mer om och öva så vad jag än väljer får jag dåligt samvete för att något annat inte hinns med.
Så nu struntar jag i allt och surfar bara runt och tittar och läser din och andras matbloggar
Thank you for taking us along,
I can see spring is in full swing in Tuscany!
Buona Pasqua,
Merisi
http://www.merisi.blogspot.com
Härligt att vara ute och promenera med kameran…Du är så otroligt flitig med nya recept hela tiden, så det är väl på sin plats med paus någon dag. Vi får ju njuta av alla vackra bilder som du generöst delar med dig av. Ha en skön påskhelg! Kram/Eva
Happy spring Ilva….nice to go on your ramble with you and your photos documenting it. You are so right about Bron’s site, it is so very impressive, but I think you work pretty hard at yours here as well. thank yo for sharing your special talent and viewpoint.
Hi Ilva,
Wish to alert you that everytime i open your blog i get a warning that this site might be harmful to my computer. might be you want to fix this up:)
Ilva, your site is lovely and so refreshing-be kind to yourself and know that many of us love visiting to see your perspective!
I visited Bron’s site, and it IS beautiful, but I did not fnd it very user friendly and had a hard time navigating through it. Since I am lazy and want ease of use that means I will not go back.
Thank you as always for sharing your photos
Gorgeous photos! Just the thing to place a smile on my face at the start of my day
I’m loving Bron’s site too!
I love the lots and lots of photos.
Paz
Just beautiful! What type of camera and lens do you use?
Oh, lovely, And this post strikes a chord in me, more than usual. The way naked trees cast silhouette shadows on walls is one of the things I love most to observe in the Southern European winter. And what you say about others confirming your existance by greeting you is wonderfully well captured. I now realise why I’ve always found the opposite – which you tend to encounter more in the north of Europe and more in big cities – so disheartening. Every time I meet someone who acts as if I weren’t there eats away a little bit of me. (And the wonderful extreme of being confirmed, isnt the old Afzelius song: “När du ser mig, när jag finns i dina ögon, då flyger mitt hjärtas fågel”!)
And that photo with the leaning signpost and the publicity shouting “It’s easy!” – oh how true. The paradoxes of life…