Thursday Challenge; Money

I really have a weird feeling with this Thursday Challenge which is about; "MONEY" (Bills, Coins, Gold, Silver, Things that are valuable,...)
so I gave my own twist to it. On my other blog Kati's Scribbles I have a Quotes and Pics blog every Saturday so I thought of this while thinking of a theme. It's different but it makes me feel better. ;)

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Efteling

Hub and I have a nice week off and the boys had a finally time to come with us to the Efteling; a lovely amusement park/fairy tale park where I'm coming since I was a little girl of 2 years old so that's now for 45 years! It was a lovely day with sunny weather and lots of fun (and pictures taken!)

 Sunny day

 Roller coaster called Bird Rock

 Autumn colours with Bremer Stadsmuzikanten as part of a fountain

 Python roller coaster

The emperors new clothes

 At night a true water/light spectacle Aquanura

AquaNura

Closes with a bang

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Thursday Challenge; Home

The Thursday Challenge of today is; "HOME" (House, Apartment, Trailer Home,...)

Your home is your castle comes to mind; The one place where I feel truly at home besides my own house is Scotland of course (where else)

So these pictures are of my favorite castle;
Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland (Made in 2005)

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Thursday Challenge; Happy

The Thursday Challenge of this week is: HAPPY (Smiles, Faces, Laughter, Humorous Things,...)

Well this happy face always makes me smile: She's almost 13 years old (next Thursday is her birthday) and although a bit stiff in her bones now and then still a happy dog. :)

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Butterflies

Today I was lucky to see this rare butterfly. It must be an Atalanta but with totaly different colours than a normal one. I've read that it's possible sometimes but now I've seen it with my own eyes. And it was gorgeous! His friend was sitting right next to him with the 'normal' Atalanta colours.

Speckled Wood butterflies are all over the place here even in October;

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Thursday Challenge; Shiny

It's Thursday again and the Thursday Challenge today is:
"SHINY" (Mirrors, Reflections, Glass, Jewellery, Metal,...)

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October morning

I love autumn and I love poems so I used to combine those two but somehow I forgot it. Today I walked outside and it was a lovely autumn morning, my kind of weather; drizzle, dark and the leaves are starting to change colour and fall. I took this photo for a dear friend in India who doesn't know autumn and found this poem to go along with it and thought: I want to start that kind of blogging again. A picture and a poem that goes along with it. So here it is I hope you like it. I took it with my phone so the quality isn't that good but still a nice picture of autumn.

Have a lovely Sunday.

October

By Robert Frost
 

O hushed October morning mild,

Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;

Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,

Should waste them all.

The crows above the forest call;

Tomorrow they may form and go.

O hushed October morning mild,

Begin the hours of this day slow.

Make the day seem to us less brief.

Hearts not averse to being beguiled,

Beguile us in the way you know.

Release one leaf at break of day;

At noon release another leaf;

One from our trees, one far away.

Retard the sun with gentle mist;

Enchant the land with amethyst.

Slow, slow!

For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,

Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,

Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—

For the grapes’ sake along the wall.

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Thursday Challenge; Together

This Thursday Challenge it's about:
"TOGETHER" (Bacon and Eggs, Things that go together,...)

Honey and bees go together I think:

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