“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners, who make our souls blossom.”

~ Marcel Proust

Are you ready for spring? I took a short photowalk in the neighbourhood to look around and get to know my new city better. Here is a little collection for those who are still suffering from heavy snow storms in the Northern parts of Europe and the US. Don’t worry, there are only a few more days to sleep till spring goes to your end, too. Enjoy the series, I missed snow here in London though.

Magnolias are one of my favorite flowers. I thought they are very rare in Hungary, but when I showed the flowers to my Mom, she said we had it at home too. Flowers can be really tricky sometimes, they can have totally different names in Hungarian, and I’m not an expert in them either. There’s only one thing that counts: their beauty makes our souls blossom, our days shine and our hearts brighten!!

I just love bokeh and fences, and when I can mix the two…hmm it’s almost like heaven.

Happy weekend to all of you! Let your hearts be filled with sunshine and happiness!

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”

~ Vincent van Gogh

I just received my new business cards via Royal Mail. Somehow it made me think. When I picked and held a piece in my hands, I felt a kinda soft and velvety touch that I never felt before on any cards. How can this be recyclable? MOO knows the answer. The paper used for these cards are sourced from sustainable forests, and even the packaging is 100 % recyclable. I am just WOW!

Without the world being like this it would be impossible for me to capture the photos that you can see on my blog or Flickr stream. I’m trying to show you how beautiful the environment is, the planet where we live and work every day. With that I hope you’ll easily understand how important it is to take care of our own “ecological footprint” and start saving the world for the next generations. They will be happy and grateful too if they can live and celebrate their lives as we do now.

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

~ Epicurus

Do you like thinking of old good memories? Hands up, who’s missing spring? Hands up, who’s missing warm weather and sunshine? Or having a splash in the pool? Well these are the things I definitely can’t provide you today.

No matter how cold it is outside, anyway I ♥ winter too – well for you aussies it’s completely different lol – so, Christmas is coming soon, and I hope I can post you some really nice seasonal photos very soon. Just let’s wait for our big move.

Hope you’re all doing well.
xoxo

Lolo

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Let me send your way some autumn sunshine. The weather is gorgeous here, a bit cold though. Autumn has really really arrived. But I like this season, too, with all its beauty and coldness. I’ll put on some warm clothes, grab my cam and hurry outside to sniff some fresh air. I pretty much like the weather after rain, it’s like when nature awakens again and again. And here in London we have quite much rain, especially from now on till the end of spring. But these are not so heavy ones, no need to open your umbrella lol. Anyway today the sun is shining so brightly, so let’s forget rain for now. And yeah, it’s already Friday!! Have a lovely weekend filled with sunshine and happiness!

xoxo

Lolo

“Fly, open up the part of you that wants to hide away

And you can shine, forget about the reasons

Why you can’t in life and start to try

‘Cause it’s your time, time to fly.”

~ Hilary Duff: Fly

There is a lovely game called “alphabet” going all around Flickr and this is my submission for the letter F. F for FLY. Feel free to ckeck the rest of my photos captured for this crazy game. The photo was taken in Valentines Park.

…make you want to move your dancing feet! 

Still trying to find another house to live in…will come back later. If you’re lucky and have as beautiful weather as we have here, enjoy it as long as you can! Have a wonderful weekend!

Hi My Friends,

today was a hard day, so I decided to take a short walk in Leytonstone. This is the name of the district where we live currently. We’ll move next week…Gggrrrr…Guess what happened. The landlord gave us a notice to move out in a week. He’d sold the house!!! But com’ on we’re still living here, I can’t believe this. Ok, it’s London, anything can happen….blahhhh…

So… I like this rose so much. Today we had a wonderful weather, it hasn’t rained for 3 days now!!! It’s not a miracle but we’re in London. 

Hope you all have a wonderful evening!

Lolo

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m now listening to one of my favourite songs, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. First I heard it in the Shrek movie, then I watched the X-Factor finalist, Alexandra Burke. She was absolutely gorgeous with her wonderful voice! I’ve just read an article about this song, it was then placed No. 1. in the UK Christmas singles chart. Hhmm… Christmas… I think I’m looking forward to it… a bit. Not because of the weather, it’s REALLY REALLY nice now, sunny, warm, the sky is almost clear. Love this song! 

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Best,

Lolo

Hey Y’all,

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”

~ Phyllis Diller

wooow, this is my first fully manual shot!! Manual exposure + manual focus!!! Ok-ok I know this isn’t a big deal for the most of you, but for me it’s a great improvement. LOL The bad thing is that it was not taken with my lovely Nikon cam but with a Pentax I-don’t-even-remember-what-kind-of-cam. K20D, I got it from a friend to try a new prime lens. Thanks Taz! The result looks good, right? I’ve never thought that taking macro shots is such a great fun. I’ve already ordered some new rings from E-Bay that I can put onto my cam and with this 58 mm lens I’ll be able to do such miracles. 

There must be something going wrong with the engine of my blog. I need to figure out why the photos in my media library are multiply uploaded. I remember having uploaded them only once, or twice if they are in my portfolio, too.  That part looks like a crash rather disaster too… hmm {Sigh…sigh} I have no time to update it properly. Need to ckeck it with my lil bro. He’s a super hero in solving such crazy bugs. 

Regarding bad weather, one more thought has just come to my mind. God we have palm trees here in the gardens, the weather can’t be that bad!! So I do believe it’ll be much better and I’ll get used to it very soon, otherwise I’ll move to Spain…hahhaa. (Photo was taken in Stevenage, 50 mins ride from London to the North…not that it would be really important lol just for me for future reference…or should I tag it…yeah maybe, now done.)

I hope your Wednesday is going great!

Hugs,

Lolo

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.”

~ Rosalia de Castro

Hey All,

I’m back – but this time in London, quite far away from home. {Sigh…} I’m planning to look at this as a life long journey. Considering the above quote I’m not sure if I’m full of positive or negative feelings but rather full of energy that gives me power to go on. ‘Cos – some of you might know – it’s really really HARD to start a new life in a completely different country, leaving everything behind – family, friends (!!) and your whole life – and bundling all your stuff in a bag, and LEAVE… GO AWAY… FAR AWAY. I have only ONE WISH: Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and stay my friend on this journey! We’ll meet at the end!

(I’ll be on and off nowadays…I think I’ll need some time to get used to my new life in London…)

Thinking of you ALWAYS!

Warm hugs,

L.