Blooming Friday – Moonlit

It’s been long since I posted in Blooming Friday, but as Katarina from Roses N Stuff is in Rome (enjoy dear! ) and the theme this week is Moonlit.
(ah, if you ask your self what moonlit means, it means lit by the moon)
I thought it would be nice to post something.
I live on the Garda Lake, in the North of Italy and enjoy very much making photos both of the lake as the Monte Baldo, standing tall over.

So I looked over my Flickr album and found two nice photos of the moon.
Not having a reflex camera I hope you don’t mind the bad quality and my
shaky hands

This is the moon shining on the lake one warm August evening last year.

And this is early in the morning in February this year.

This is in the late afternoon on MOnte Baldo in December last year.
The moon shines so much stronger in the winter, don’t think?

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Blooming Friday – almost spring?

It is some time I don’t write, and I’m sorry.
I thought dividing my blog in three would be a good idea, but it isn’t.
one (or two) always is left behind..and that is a pity..special with this one.
the one I wanted to fill with all the beautiful, interesting, incredible things I see
this charming Lake is full of wonders.
in the last months I’m doing full time treeking,
searching for new paths, looking up the old ones
taking new contact, filling up the old ones.

the new season is near, starting at Easter, and there is so much to do.
I want make in time as usual )
Katarina asks us to find something old , something new..
I can’t help it…I feel so enthusiasticly springly new!

during one of my many wandering abouts I’ve seen the first signs of Spring!!

make my so happy..every year it is the same.
in the middle of the winter, it looks as spring will neve come..
then once, under a bunch of old brown soaked leaves….
primulas, hellebours, small violas and even a little shy bellis!

primula vulgaris

bellis perennis

viola odorata

Helleborus foetidus

and this…I didn’t expect two small flowers on a almond tree (amygdalus communis)

enjoy with me!

don’t forget to stop by at Katarina’s blog and look at all the other bloggers wonders.
(just love the name in Swedish..Rosor och ris!

today the rain poured down, but as this is the most chrming lake in Italy..
this afternoon, the rain stoped,,leaving the lake and the sky grey

and this evening we had another beautiful sunset.

tomorrow will be a nice day, have a nice weekend.

blooming friday – Christmas fireplace decoration

well, the sun is shinig and that doesn’t help! )
to have some real Christmas feeling, it should snow, it should be darker, cooler..
anything than this execeptional weather we have had in the last days! )
anyway, can’t do anything about it…so let’s enjoy it!

together with my two doughters we have made the Christmas decoration for the
fireplace.
I cut brances of
mugo pine, whitebark pine, austrian pine
together with branches of rosemary and bay.

the decorations are small wooden or wicker Christmas objects,
ribbons and Christmas balls.

I put 4 big white candles for the Advent.

on the front door we put a very old decoration,
I made this together with the kids
I think some 10-12years ago )
a simple juta bag filled with linning
match boxes as gifts
old toys
wooden stars
home made gips decorations
all clued together

this is the view we have had in the last week, it is very little Christmas feeling but so beautiful.

don’t forget to drop by Katarina at Roses and Stuff

to see the other Blooming Friday’s entries

have a nice weekend.