Take a Summer Walk with Me

Assalaam Alaikum sisters!

I hope you are doing well! I'm so sorry for not being much online and not posting much. I am really taking a break from computers and enjoying much time outside. I'm also sorry to not commenting much! I still love you! ;) :)

I've been spending a lot of days at my parents' place - the place where I also lived a big part of my life. Allah (swt) really blessed us with living in a town like that. Insha'Allah the beautiful nature will be preserved there.
I went on some lovely trips the days, where I didn't have to work and I want to share some of the pictures here with you. I apologize for the sometimes unsharp pictures. They were taken with my 4-year-old mobile phone... But insha'Allah you will enjoy them:

Field - The white spots in the middle are sheep :)

The houses are so beautiful

The following pictures are from another trip I went on one evening with my parents:

I would love to live here!

The next day we went for a walk in a park in the town, to a field and to the beautiful dome and the buildings around it:

I love poppies!

The dome of the town

It's not bad being the bishop of this town living in the yellow house with the car!

Another angle of the dome

Two crows

I hope you enjoyed these pictures, insha'Allah! :)

Take care all of you!

9 Weird Things about Me

Because deros just answered to the tag Weird things about me, I realized that Blue Pearl has tagged me too for this in December! Hehe. Sorry for the delay and enjoy, insha'Allah:

1 * I don't know how weird it is - but people (from 7+ years...) do think it's weird: I can get overly excited about "casual" stuff like how the sky looks when the sun sets, or how the birds sing. In December I really got excited about how beautiful and unique every snowflake is and caught them in my black glove to look more closely at them. I was with my class from university and some of the girls thought I was being crazy again. But it ended up with every body standing with their hands stretched out, catching snowflakes and studying them closely. Hehe :-D Subhan'Allah.


2 * I often prefer the company of animals to that of human beings and I have a very special love for my rabbit! She's 5½ :) Here she is in the snow on the balchony this December:

Ooh and here she is eating the snow:

3 * I like doing the opposite of what is considered "normal" or "right". When I was younger I really challenged my mother in many ways: in an early age I became a vegetarian, from March till Autumn I would walk around in bare feet, I had boyfriends she never could accept and I believed in God from an early age and experimented with a lot of religions and beliefs. Now being a Muslim with a "foreign" husband is also "one of these things" for my mom. Sorry... It's just the way I am.

In school I was the only one choosing not to be confirmed at the age of 14. My argument was that I did not want to say "yes" to something, just to receive lots of gifts and money (which is often how it works here in Denmark).

4 * I prefer not to open the door, when somebody rings the doorbel... I think it's because I like my privacy, when I am at home.

5 * When I am alone some times, if my husband is out or on a trip, I most often buy sushi for dinner and creamy cakes for dessert.

6 * I don't feel joy and relaxation when thinking about forests. I feel loneliness and a bit scared and would probably never go to a (Danish) forest on my own. I love forests when they are part of a landscape with mountains!

7 * I hate being the center of attention, especially if I didn't choose it myself!

8 * I use natural oils on my body on a daily basis and my husband calls me his sticky wife. Hehe.

9 * I can't stand it if my nails grow long and neeeeed to cut them, no matter what. (I love the nails on the picture :). Oh yes and by the way I can't stand the scratching sound of long nails against texture :-O



That's all for now, although I think I could continue for hours. Hehe.
I tag 4 other people (and hope you haven't been tagged for this before): Alice, Visual Notes, MoOn and Aabida Muslimah. I hope you feel like making a post on this :) and I look forward to your responses, which you can add here if you want:

Early Morning Walk

After bringing my stepdaughter to school today around 8 AM, I took the bus to the city and went for a walk, 'cause I had 1 hour, before I was going to meet my dad at a café. While walking I was thinking about many things, of course, and one of them was Blue Pearl's post The Winter of our Disconnect and how I should go for even more walks in the city or nature and explore the world surrounding me, instead of staying inside close to the computer, for example.

I took pictures on this early morning walk and want to share them with you. I have a camera somewhere in a drawer, which I am going to fix today, 'cause I LOVE taking pictures and I always use my mobile phone and as you can see below, the quality is quite poor. But apart from that, I hope you enjoy the pictures and I'd love if you too went for a walk somewhere where you live and shared the pictures on your blog. These pictures are, of course, from Denmark - Copenhagen (where I live) - and it was a really cold morning with lots of fog - but I love fog, so I really enjoyed it. First thing I saw, stepping off the bus, was this oldschool shop (see below). Then I walked by this beautiful, big cathedral and Amalienborg, which is one of the homes the Danish royal family lives in and then I went down to the water, where a huge military boat was getting ready to take off. On my way home I passed by lots of hungry seagulls...

Shop

Shop

Shop

Cathedral

Covered statues outside cathedral

Entrance of the cathedral

Amalienborg - where the Royal Family lives

Military boat, fog and steam

Hungry seagulls

 I hope you enjoyed it :) and perhaps want to share a walk on your blog too and please share the link below: