Birds in high places again

I have a couple of themes when I'm out taking pictures. One of them is Birds in high places. We have a lot of birds in this city, you can find them just about anywhere. Doves and seagulls are aplenty and this particular dove found a resting place on a street light. I like to challenge my camera to take these pictures just to see if it can handle it, hehe....

Dreaming myself away

This weekend it's time to set the clock back to wintertime. So from Monday next week, it'll be dark before I come home from work. I feel the need to dream myself away to days with light and sunshine. Like the spring day when I took a picture of these anemones. They are the first flowers to appear in spring and in my mind spring is not really here until the anemones are blooming.

Visiting Memory Lane

Since it's a foggy morning here today, I'm looking back to this summer day when I went to my home town to take pictures. Actually I went to the dentist and decided to take a later bus home so I could shoot some piccies.

This is a view of the river from the old Karl VII bridge. The river flows through the town and I lived close to it for many years. Once upon a time, when I was much younger than I am today, the winter was so cold, the river froze down to the bottom so I could skate on it. Never happened again. I think that was the same winter I could ski on the sea.... never happened again either.

Monkeying around

This kid monkey was playing a bit too much with his food. You can see the red fruit on the picture but in a minute or so after I took the picture, he dropped it in the water. He was lucky enough to be able to fish it up again before it sank though. Apparently his mother never told him to not play with his food.

The family cats

You may not realize it but this is a truly amazing picture. Why? All three cats in the same picture, that is rare. These cats belong to my SIL's parents so they're family. Morris, the red and white in the front, was rescued from Italy by my SIL (Hi Therese). You don't have to speak Italian with him though. They look friendly and happy because they know that in a minute they will be fed.

Hidden objects

This little gem can be found in a backyard behind a closed door. I have no idea who the people are and why they're located in this particular backyard. The guy is holding a house. The girl (the queen?) is holding the City of Helsingborg coat of arms and a scroll. Maybe they are a representation for the historic moment when in 1085 Helsingborg received city status by the Danish king? One day I really need to go to the library and find more information about these two and other statues and ornaments around the city.

Kids and water

This boy could not keep his hands of the Royal fountain in the Kronborg Castle courtyard. He kept coming back to it to play with the water. The fountain is very nice in itself but the picture would most likely be a bit dull without the boy enjoying himself.

Bird time

As a photographer, living by the sea means you always have lots of birds to photograph. The seagulls are aplenty and they often pose for you. Actually, I think the reason that they're easy to photograph is they don't give a birds foot about us humans and are simply ignoring us. Even when we point a camera at them. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

Getting colder

I had to use my winter coat for the first time this evening, it's only +3 Celsius here. They say it's supposed to be another cooooold winter. That reminded me of last winter which was very cold with lots of ice on the sound and on the ships. The pictures show one of the two tow boats in Helsingborg, a lot of ice on it.

The dancing women

This is the top part of the fountain I blogged about yesterday. I read somewhere that the artist that made the fountain had three sisters that he loved so much that he decorated the fountain with them dancing. That's a nice gesture, isn't it?

Danish art

These kiddies sit on a fountain in Helsingor, Denmark. There are six different kids around the foot and on top, three dancing women. The detail and different facial expressions of each kid are wonderful. The fountain is located in a small public garden so you can actually sit there looking at this fountain taking in all the details of it. That's what I did.

Kid on the run

Not a great technical picture but I like it anyway. It shows how far my nephew could run when he saw some older kids with a football. That would be a ball used to play soccer for you, Col.

There be cannons

The cannons at Kronborg Castle, pointing against Sweden. They are from the 17th century and are still in use. On the Danish Royals birthdays and when new little Danish Royal babies are born, the cannons are fired as part of the celebrations. The cannons are also fired when the Danish Royal ship Dannebrogen passes the castle in the sound.

A piece of Swedish nature

This is what Sweden looks like deep in the woods where the wolves live. I didn't see any wolves though and I sure hope that's not a pair of shoes in the water between the rocks. This picture was taken in the Boras Zoo, it's supposed to be the wolves pen but as I said, no wolves in sight. Maybe they were hiding somewhere gnawing on the bones of the person that owned the shoes in the water?

A gang of geese

Bring out the bread already! This gang of geese were eyeballing the bread we brought along to feed the birds in the childrens zoo. They were huge, I didn't know geese could get that big. Must be all the bread people bring with them.