En koselig Award

Jeg fikk en hyggelig melding for noen dager siden. Fra en helt ukjent blogger ulinka som tydeligvis følger bloggen min - uten at jeg vet om det. Hun har valgt meg ut til "I love your blog" award!

Egentlig har jeg jo bestemt meg for at awarder er noe pes! Men det var hyggelig da, at en person jeg ikke visste om følger meg, og bloggen hennes er en koselig personlig blogg som jeg syntes litt om. Etter avtale med henne kommer jeg ikke til å sende den videre, men - jeg kan jo alltids svare på noen av spørsmålene som fulgte med awarden!

1: Hvorfor startet du å blogge?
Ikke vanskelig å svare på: Jeg elsker å fotografere - og ønsket å teste ut om mine foto kunne glede noen! Nå har jeg testet ut i over 700 innlegg - og koser meg fortsatt!

2: Hvilke blogger følger du?
Jeg følger i hovedsak rene fotoblogger, da det passer best for meg. Der henter jeg inspirasjon, glede og fellesskap til den hobbyen jeg selv har.

3: Favorittfilm?
EEEhhh - skal jeg svare på det da? Er nok veldig lite tradisjonell i den leia - jeg elsker nemlig science-fiction-filmer! "Alien 1-2-3-4" må med. Men litt annet hører jo med: som "The green mile" og "Shawshank Redemption" er filmer som griper meg dypt.

4: Hva gir deg glede i hverdagen:
Kjæresten min, naturen, fotoapparatet, musikk, dyr.

Ulinka, denne tulipanen er til deg - samt til alle som følger bloggen min!

Läckö Slott i Sverige - Lächö castle in Sweeden

This post was mentioned in Authorblogs "Post of the day"! I am honoured!



Slottet ligger ved Väneren, og ble påbegynt i 1298. Et utrolig vakkert eventyrslott! Jeg kjente historiens sus mens jeg vandret gjennom soverom, hemmelightetsfulle trapper og ballsaler. Slottet har gjennom århundreder forvandlet seg fra biskopsborg til barokkslott. Tak og vegger er dekket av fremstillinger av Sveriges seire i krig, samt mytologiske motiver. Slottet ble valgt til Sveriges vakreste slott i 2001.

Dessverre var det ikke lov til å fotografere innendørs, for å beskytte disse veggmaleriene. Alle vinduer var tildekket for å skjerme interiøret for dagslys - og massiv blitzing fra kamereaer har nok samme ødeleggende virkning.

Läckö Castle is 700 years old, and has a lot of wall paintings showing Sweedens victories in act of war, and mythology motives. Walking through beautiful bedrooms, assembly halls and dark stairs almost made me feel the history was talking to me.
The castle was elected as Sweedens most beautiful castle in 2001.

Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures inside.



Og selvfølgelig har slottet en hage, der det svirret rundt en enorm mengde sommerfugler!

And of course the castle had a garden, and a lot of butterflies!

Today's Flowers: Wet - wild - and beautiful!

This post is a runner up in POST OF THE DAY at Authorblog/David McMahon! YEAH!

Please visit Today's Flowers and see more lovely flowers! You can also participate yourself!

A bouquet of wildflowers I picked today, during heavy rain. Since I forgot my umbrella, I was as wet as the flowers when I came home.

I have to say the flowers looked much prettier than me.......

Award

I recieved this lovely award from Ebie, a sweet lady who always has the nicest things to say! Please pay her a visit and se her blog!

About this award: "We give and get awards for having a great blog and being a good friend. What I want to award is those people whose comments have meant THE WORLD to me. It takes time to visit a blog and leave a comment ... I wanted to recognize some special bloggers whose comments have made such an impact on me. The “You Don’t Say?” Award is awarded to these special bloggers in hopes that they will pass the award along to 5-10 of their best commenters!"

Passing this award along to other bloggers is not easy. Some don't want awards, some have already recieved the award - and picking out only a few of those who would appreciate it is not easy. The rules are to pick out 5-10 bloggers. I will narrow it down to two bloggers, and for different reasons. 5-10 is a lot! And I have decided that this award will be given from my heart, and these two was not difficult to choose!

Tarolino: Her comments are both enjoying and refreshing, and I value her input so much! She takes the time to not only say; Lovely - she also exspresses her feelings around the photo as well! Even if we have never met, she has become a good friend in this world of bloggers.

Kari: She doesn't always say so much on my blog - but visiting her blog is really a treat! Her blog is not a photoblog, and her writing is only in Norwegian. I simply love her humor, combined with a unique and fun view of her daily life, her animals - and life in general! Our conversations on HER blog can be long, fun - and educational! In addition to make me smile, she also takes good photos!

Both Tarolino and Kari can follow the rules for this award - or they can choose not to! That is MY rule, when recieving awards!

Post Of The Day

Idag er jeg "runner up" hos David McMahon igjen! Kan bli salig av mindre! Denne gangen var det Blåveisene mine han falt for! Blir kjempeglad for slikt!

Tusen takk til David!

Today I am a runner up at David McMahons Authorblog - again! You can surely say I am a little bit in heaven! This time he enjoyed my post Hepatica Nobilis. I am overjoyed!

Thank you so much David!

New Award

I got a new award yesterday! An award personally made by the donor Tarolino from Finland. I felt so honoured to recieve this personal award, from a very talented lady - both with her camera and her way with words! And she is a great friend in the world of bloggers!

This award has no "strings" attached. That means I can keep it to myself! Ha! :) I CAN pass it on if I want to........ but I will keep that as a secret for now - and keep it to myself for a while! ;-)

Thank you so much dear Tarolino!

Passing on awards!

This award was passed on to me by sweet Maria in Vienna! I now pass it on to 5 bloggers I always enjoy visiting. That is a hard thing to do, because there are so many more I could have passed it on to. But - here it goes:

Tarolino - Finland
Mojo - United States
Pacey - Philippines
Ida - Norway
2sweetnsaxy - United states

I do hope you will enjoy recieving this award!

Awards!

De siste par ukene har jeg vært så heldig å motta 2 nye awarder - og ikke minst nevnt som "runner up" i Post Of The Day på David McMahons blog "authorblog". Sånt gir jo inspirasjon for en liten blogger her på bjerget!

"Hot Blog Award" mottok jeg fra Maria fra Østerrike - men har ikke fått rotet meg til å lage innlegg før nå. Etterhvert skal jeg finne frem til 5 andre blogger jeg vil gi den videre til.

"Kreativ Blogger Award" fikk jeg fra Tarolino i Finland! Den må jeg faktisk gi videre til 8 stykker!

Setter enormt pris på denne lille gesten! Men bær over med meg - trenger litt tid til å finne ut hvem jeg skal gi dem videre til!

The last couple of weeks I have recieved 2 new awards! An inspiration for me, blogging from a little corner of the world!



Maria from Austria gave med the "Hot Blog Award". I have to find 5 new bloggers to give the award to.



And then, Tarolino from Finland handed me the award "Kreativ Blogger" - which means I have to find 8 bloggers and pass it on to them!



This is so much appreciated! Thank you both of you - visiting your blogs are always a treat! And I know you will understand when I say I need a little time to find who to hand the awards to! But I will eventually!

Post of The Day at David McMahon!

I discovered yesterday that my post on Today's Flower; Cactus - is mentioned in the blog of David McMahon, a well-known Australian journalist and superblogger! He has a Post Of The Day label on his blog, where he is telling other bloggers to go visit a post he likes, or others have nominated. You can check out the post here.

This really made my day! I'm sitting here with my nose in a handkerchief - feeling rather sick - but this really made me feel soooo much better!

Thank you David! This is a big inspiration to keep on blogging - and keep on shooting my camera!

Collecting awards!

I have had som serious trouble, after recieving the nice award "I heart your blog" from Today's Blah! When recieving it, I also had to pick out at least 8 other bloggers to pass the award on to - and that was difficult! There are so many great blogs - and bloggers! Some I have known for some time, others are new!

But - this is for fun, so here it goes! Some of those I would want to send the award to, has already recieved it, so this is for those from my list who hasn't - and who's blogs I really enjoy visiting:

Anne-Berits Fotoblogg

Sveins Fotoblogg

Arnes fotoblogg

Ida's little corner of the world!

Today's Blah - I return it to you!

Oslo - gjennom mine øyne

Knips & Nips

Bildebloggen

Ipsis Photos

Now it is your job to find som blogs you enjoy and pass the award further! I realise that not everyone will take the time to pass it on, but in my opinion that is not why I do this! This is just a way to tell you I enjoy visiting your blogs! If you don't want to put the award on your blog - that is ok. by me.

Award!

I got an award! Thank you so much Today's Blah for this nice gesture! I am still so childish that I appreciate the fun - an of course that someone really like my blog! I will try my best to pass it further to 8 bloggers I like!

And to those who do not know Today's Blah - go visit and have fun!