What made you smile this week?
For: 52 Weeks Photo Challenge:Week 14- Winter. Also for: Weekly Smile 45 #weeklysmile
Our first snow of the year
Tag: Germany
Are we there yet?
Views merged with the light and speed, the son is asleep at the back of the car, we’re listening to some opera, road trip from Germany to Britain is always fun. Car packed with goodies from Germany, our suitcases and some sweets, snacks and drinks. Son wakes up, listens to his music, then gets bored, asking when we are arriving.
Are we there yet?
Street lights and fast cars
Family’s road trip
(c) ladyleemanila 2016
For: Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 8th 2016 75 words haibun, Photo Challenge #138
30 Days of Thankfulness: Day 7
Home Thoughts
by Carl Sandburg
THE SEA rocks have a green moss.
The pine rocks have red berries.
I have memories of you.
Speak to me of how you miss me.
Tell me the hours go long and slow.
Speak to me of the drag on your heart,
The iron drag of the long days.
I know hours empty as a beggar’s tin cup on a rainy day, empty as a soldier’s sleeve with an arm lost.
Speak to me …
What are you thankful for today?
I am grateful for my two homes, the Philippines where I was born and bred and Germany, where I am happily living with Him Indoors.
The shore that call us home
Was the title of the poem
By Samuel Hazo in 1949
Makes me think about my life
Every time I go home and meet my
Family, friends and relatives again
After some time when I’m here
And they are there living differently
Yet parallel to each other, there’s this
Nostalgic feeling, of being home again
This land or these islands I miss so much
It doesn’t matter where I am now, and
I’m building a home with my family here
But over there where I used to call home
Full of childhood memories, of school,
Of college, of my first experience at work
First love, first kiss, first of everything
These experiences made me and taught me
They gave me a solid foundation of how
It is to be me, all the trials and errors
They gave me the confidence to try and
Explore different things and I have proved
That I can do it no matter where
So even when I’m happy here
I’d still be a girl with a fringe
I’d always go back to the shore
That calls me home, the Philippines
(c) ladyleemanila 2016
yacht
lavender
tortoises
home is happy
home is cosy
home is warm
home doesn’t regret
home doesn’t mind sharing
home grows with love
it doesn’t matter
where or what is home
home is with Him Indoors
and HRH the son
our three tortoises
our flowers in the grden
things we share
experience and memories
I love our home!
(c) ladyleemanila 2016
For: 30 Days of Thankfulness: Day 7. Also for: NaNoPoblano Day 7
Which Way in Freising
Scenic Eibsee
Eibsee is a lake in Bavaria, Germany, 9 km southwest of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and roughly 100 km southwest of Munich. At an elevation of 973.28 m, its surface area is 177.4 ha. Eibsee lies at the base of the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain. (Wikipedia)
For: green charm… . Also for: #MySundayPhoto – By the River, Washington, D.C. at Night (Sundays In My City), SEASONS – THE VERY END OF SEPTEMBER
Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge – August 17, 2016
Share Your World – 2016 Week 31
What is your favourite part of the town/city you live in? And what Country do you live? I live in Munich, Germany and I love it – the city, shops, people, mountains, parks, museums, theatres, cinemas, restaurants, etc. We can cycle in the summer and ski in the winter.
Marienplatz
Would you rather wear clown shoes every day or a clown wig every day? I’m really not keen of wearing either one, but if I have to choose, probably clown shoes.
Which way does the toilet paper roll go? Over or under? Over.
What do you do to make a living or during the day? If you are retired what mostly occupies your day? Or if you are a student what are you studying? I’m a freelance English teacher/trainer so I can pick and choose when and where I teach, mostly in companies and language schools.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? I was in the UK last week to visit my mother and brother and my brother’s kids. We had a great time bonding. My mother goes back to the Philippines in two weeks’ time.
Him Indoors and I fly to India tomorrow for HRH the son and his beautiful K’s wedding, Indian version. Looking forward to it!
For: Share Your World – 2016 Week 31
Photo Blogging Challenge (July 2016): Photographer’s Choice
a modern art from Grand Central, Birmingham, UK
ThrustSSC was the first land vehicle to exceed the speed of sound (Mach 1) in October 1997.
at Packwood Garden, known for the garden of yews
alium, lavender and bees
skywatch Berlin
For: Photo Blogging Challenge (July 2016): Photographer’s Choice
Berlin Doors 2
Skywatch Berlin
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