Manic Monday? (Daily Photo), Part One

Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry, Tale & Photography 

 

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“It’s just another Manic Monday” The Bangles

Manic Monday? (Daily Photo) One

Is this another Manic Monday?
Or just another January Fun-day?



It’s six o’clock already, but I need to drive steady. The roads are iced and if I drive too fast, I will get sliced. As usual, after the weekend, Monday follows and so does the mania and the panic. Rushing here and rushing there. A never ending story of this writer’s life. Or does it apply to everyone?

Just when I thought it was safe to say, it’s going to be a peaceful day, all hell breaks loose. So who cooked the goose this time? All was fine, for a moment at least, but someone unleashed the beast. And yet again, another fire to fight! Ah this poor girl’s plight.

Several hours later, when once again, I have turned into a hater, of Mondays, the sun has come out to play! I’m secretely hoping it is here to stay! I rush out, leaving my gloves and coat behind. Never mind! The air is much warmer now. After all, only minus degrees of two, so what have I got to loose!

Reaching the seashore, the sunrise to score. Enjoying a few seconds, because the sun beckoned and then… it hits me. The coldest of winds, blowing in my face. Oh how I really hate… Winter! GRRRR.

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Snow and then some! Part One

Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of Snow

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“Snow’s all right on a fine morning, but I like to be in bed when it’s falling” J.R.R. Tolkien

Snow and then some! (Part One)

In the early morning hours
Before the rush and plowers
A perfect moment of stillness
Nature white and flawless
Staring in awe
At the most beautiful picture
I ever saw

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Hakaniemi (Sightseeing and Walkabout) One

Posted in the series Sightseeing and Walkabout
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“Good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go to Hellsinki”

Hakaniemi, One

Travelling in my home country, Finland and in the exotic capital of Helsinki. For this week I have chosen the (in)famous Hakaniemi, a stone throw away from the City Centre. Or you can just take the Metro or tram to reach Hakaniemi in four minutes from the Central Railway Station 😉

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Snow (Daily Photo 2016-01-06) Part One

Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography

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“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery” Bill Watterson

Snow, Part One

A fresh coat of snow
With a wintry glow
Life getting more slow
Just follow the flow
Even if you really
Don’t like snow

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Caturday, 2015-01-02, Part One

In honour of Caturday and all cats everywhere

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“Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life” Alejandro Jodorowsky

Caturday, 2015-01-02, Part One

Cats of a foreign land
Sitting on a lava strand
Too hot to fish
Too hot for a stroll
Guess, the best bet is
To hang around the bowl
On this lazy sunny day
Nothing else to do but lay

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“In order of appearance” (Daily Photo 2015-12-29,30) Part One

Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography
(2015-12-29,30)

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“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office” Robert Frost

“In order of appearance” 

No, this is not a weather report and certainly not Mundane Monday post (that I already did on Monday, so check it out too 😉 )

You can call this, “‘Till Wednesday”, if you like. There will be no glitter, no glamour, no sunsets nor sunrises (well, maybe, still a few).

Simply depicted in photographs, how yet another working week started, after the holiday season was over and it was time to return back to everyday life in suburbia and back to world of office, well, this week, home office.

Enjoy!

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Go to: Part Two

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part One

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part One

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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train” Oscar Wilde

World Wide Wednesday Presents: London, Part One

Rain, rain, rain
Running down the drain
Around in the City of London
Without the feeling of boredom
Too many things to see
Face lit up with a glee
Never mind the sad bad weather
My skin is made of thick leather
A few raindrops do not harm
Even a little storm
Won’t keep me away
From the London sway

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World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki, Finland, Part One

World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki City Centre 

“Once a year go somewhere you have never been before” Dalai Lama

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The Helsinki Cathedral

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Alexander II

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& Friends

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The Market Square

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Havis Amanda

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Esplanade

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Shoes for regular size feet 😛

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Contemporary cave paintings in the city Metro

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Machine, Part Two

Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of, Machine

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“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed” Rick Riordan

Lift

Going up, going down
Never stops on its own
A pater noster
Of a modern kind
A machine more efficient
Is very hard to find

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Machine, Part One

Photo Challenge by SYLVAIN LANDRY
A response to Sylvain’s challenge theme of, Machine

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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do” B. F. Skinner

Aeroplane

High up in the skies
Through the clouds it flies
The sheer size
Leaves you mesmerized
Well oiled machinery
Pulling together amazingly

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