Wonders of the Sea

Posted on 18. March 2022 by Hanna

If I want peace within, I’ll go to the sea.* It performs miracles.
I even found eider ducks in spring mood.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
~ Hermann Broch

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
~ Alain Gerbault

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.
~ Jimmy Buffett

*In lack of mountains!

Shivery Cold

Posted on 27. December 202127. December 2021 by Hanna

A Second Spring

Posted on 17. October 202117. October 2021 by Hanna

It’s autumn, but it’s like spring is on its way once more. Happy new week to all of you 😊 ⛅

Fortunately, the Houses Light up the Darkness

Posted on 3. October 20213. October 2021 by Hanna

The Light by the Sea

Posted on 28. August 2021 by Hanna

Today is a cold rainy day in August. In fact, it could easily have been a day in November.
I was looking through my own pictures to match the light of Joaquín Sorolla’s wonderful paintings.
But I decided to deviate, with this summer image back in June 2015, where people were wearing overcoats.
Just like today 😀

The light on a Danish beach, Bellevue, 8. June, 2015.

After Bathing, date 1915. Spanish painter and university teacher, Joaquín Sorolla

The Fisherman, date 1904. Spanish painter and university teacher, Joaquín Sorolla

Time for a Bathe, Valencia, date 1909. Spanish painter and university teacher, Joaquín Sorolla

Valencian Fisherman, date 1895. Spanish painter and university teacher, Joaquín Sorolla

Thunderstorms Brewing?

Posted on 9. June 20219. June 2021 by Hanna

A Pitstop for Birds

Posted on 16. April 202116. April 2021 by Hanna

A Sea Bath Waiting for Summer

Posted on 17. March 202117. March 2021 by Hanna

When the Sun goes Down

Posted on 13. December 2020 by Hanna

“Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors
which it passes to a row of ancient trees.
You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you
one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to earth.

leaving you, not really belonging to either,
not so hopelessly dark as that house that is silent,
not so unswervingly given to the eternal as that thing
that turns to a star each night and climbs-

leaving you (it is impossible to untangle the threads)
your own life, timid and standing high and growing,
so that, sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.”

Sunset by Rainer Maria Rilke is a favourite poem of mine ✨✨✨