The house on the hill

Wasn't there a horror movie with that name? This house is definitely not a horror, it's located in the northern part of the city where the decent people live. If you live in the southern part of the city, you're supposed to be uneducated/unemployed/on welfare/foreigner, most likely a combination. Hmm, let's see; I'm well educated, employed, Swedish and I live in the southern part of the city.

It must be quite expensive to live in this house, it has a great view of the sound. I would love to have a view of the sound but I don't want to move to the northern part of the city to get it.

Weird things

 

I like taking pictures of weird things and I think this qualifies in that category. When I was visiting my brother this summer, this is what I saw one morning. Somebodys trainers hanging from the streetlight. I was asking myself if it was a local custom or just somebodys idea of nightly amusement. The trainers were still hanging out with the streetlight when I left four days later. 

I like you beary much

These two bear cubs had a fantastic playfight during my visit to the zoo. I was on first row with my camera and clicked away. Visitors walk across the bear pond on a wooden bridge so the view over the cubs playing was great. They move so fast, pictures get blurry.

One of the last summer days

 

We're having some of the last summer days here. I like this picture because the trees around the pond is mirrored in the water. The stone in the middle of the pond is often used by ducks to rest on but they were resting somewhere else when I took this picture. One lousy duck would have made the picture even better.

This is what happens when the gardener is bored

I saw this birdshaped bush in the rose garden where I take a lot of pictures every year. And my first thought was (as the title of this post says): The gardener must've been bored. No other bush was shaped like something other than a bush. This one is located a bit off near the fence so perhaps the gardener thought not many would notice. Well, I noticed and I cannot let things like these pass my camera by. So here it is for everybody to look at.

Sun is shining

This is the clocktower on Kronborg Castle. The pictures are taken from different angles, the one to the left with the sun behind it (which wasn't done on purpose), the one to the right was taken as replacement for the left one. But when I had a closer look at the pictures, I liked both of them. On the left, the clocktower looks like something sinister from Mordor in Lord of the Rings. On the right, it could be a tower from the City of Gondor.

Raindrops are falling on my head

It's been raining a lot this summer and it keeps raining in September. I was sneaky and stuck my camera out the window to take this picture of a couple standing in the street in the rain. I think sneakiness is a good quality to have if you like to take pictures. Taking pictures when nobody knows you're taking pictures often end up as good pictures. Or funny pictures but that's another post.

Bluebells

I'm taking a trip back to last month with this picture. These bluebells grows in the wall that surrounds the Danish castle Kronborg. Bluebells are such a cute little flower, I've been told that faeries use them to make dresses. So if you see a moving bluebell, it's probably a faerie wearing a bluebell dress.

What the hell is that?

My exact thought when I saw this strange contraption in the sound. My first thought was "an oil rig or something". And it was "or something". I think the newspaper said it's used when repairing/maintaining oilrigs. Or something like that. This thingie was on its way to Holland I think. The picture was taken August 10th and my memory doesn't stretch that far back.

The thingie was located all the way back at the horizon, many many km from my camera and the weather was not very nice either. Picture quality is not good but I had to photograph this strange piece of equipment.

Signs

I've been thinking about what this combination of signs really means. Does it mean "look out, train's coming"? Does it mean "train coming, please turn left" or "incoming train will turn left" or "traintracks to the left" or "look to the left if you want to see a train"? I could be having too much time on my hands at the moment or I slept badly last night and can't think straight or I'm just typing along because I don't have anything else to say about my picture. Take your pick, it's free!

Arrrr, pirates!

When the boats in the harbour starts flying the skull-and-bones flag, I figure it must be time to leave the city.

Sailing

We were out sailing in the sound one day this summer. Since you share the sound with all kinds of ships, you need to stay alert. This biggie passed our small boat with not much distance. Playing chicken race was not an option. Imagine our joy when we saw the ship was from Tokyo. Maybe it left Tokyo from the same port that ships the cars we import, who knows? The ship was huuuuge, they would probably not have noticed if they had run us over.

Pink skies

When I saw this pink sky one evening I had to take a picture. What an amazing color! And it was there for a few minutes and then gone. It doesn't happen very often that the sky gets this color at sundown so I was very lucky.

Size does matter (sometimes)

Another picture from my visit to Kronborg Castle last month. This is a passage through the thick outer wall surrounding the castle area. I always get claustrofobic walking through it. I'm 5,5" and there's only 10 cm air from the top of my head to the ceiling of the passage. And the passage is longer and darker than on this picture which is taken about halfway along with a flash. People must've been quite short during the 16th and 17th centuries. Maybe I would've been considered tall back in those days?

Funny blooper

Try taking pictures of an orangutang baby that never stays in a one place. This is the result. Major blooper because I didn't have the time to focus appropriately but still a funny blooper due to the little bugger himself. This was taken when I visited Boras Zoo with my brother and his family this summer.

A single rose

I'm posting a single rose today in memory of the Russian icehockey team that was wiped out this past Wednesday in a plane crash. The Swedish goalkeeper Stefan Liv lost his life in the crash, only 30 years old.

The three towers

I've been visiting Helsingor in Denmark at least twice every summer for the past five years and I've never seen this view before. The towers on the left and right are the cathedral and the tower in the middle is the old St Marys convent. It pays to look up every once in a while. I laughed when I saw these towers, I couldn't believe the view.

It's a bright, sunshiny day

This picture was taken one day during my summer holidays when I was out walking with my camera and suddenly I found myself in Butterfly Heaven. I went into a small park with lots of flowers and there were butterflies everywhere. As you can see from my picture, there were at least two butterflies on every flower and several in the air flitting around looking for a flower to land on. Actually, there were three butterflies on this flower but one of them flew away just before I hit the camera button.

Since it's raining today...

I figured I would post a rain related picture. I took this one rainy day on my holiday. I had the window open and when it started to rain I shut the window and saw these three rain drops on the marble window ledge. Of course I needed to take a picture. When will I ever see three rain drops aligned like this again?

Queen Mary II

No, this is not turning into a blog about royals. Queen Mary II is the name of the passenger ship on the picture. Yes, the big blue ship. She's so big she cannot sail to Copenhagen, the sound isn't deep enough. Therefore, she anchors outside of Helsingor, ferrys the passengers to shore to be bused to Copenhagen. The small boat to the right is one of the ferrys between Helsingborg and Helsingor, she looks like a midget compared to Queen Mary II.

The picture was taken in the morning before I took the bus to my sister. The weather was not good as you can see. Grey skies and rain. At least I managed to get a picture of her this time, the first two times she was here I was in the office and couldn't get down to the harbour to take a picture.

Pure luck

Haha, I love this picture. And I didn't even see the little bird when I took it, I was concentrating on the swan. Imagine my face when I was checking the days pictures on the computer and saw the little guy in the back. They have almost the same pose but the difference in size makes it funny. At least in my mind.