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Sunny Day in Spain


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It is warm summer in Spain now. July and August are hot here. I use to walk early morning with Odin, before it gets to warm

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Then our late walk in the evening, as I don’t want Odin to burn his paws. In the winter we use to walk more times, but that’s not possible now

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Yesterday, we had another walk in the area, where Odin could have some freedom and run and just being free to smell everything, which he loves

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Odin got an eye on a rabbit here, but he listened, when I told him not to hunt for it

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Mostly here are yellow now, we don’t receive much rain here and not enough for the areas to stay green for more, than in the spring

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In this rural area, the electricity cables are still in the air, which are common in rural areas in Spain

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I asked Odin to stay calm, so I could get a nice photo, he agreed 😀

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This hour, it was close to sunset

 

We are looking for more areas to explore

I hope, that you enjoyed our walk

Irene

A walk in our new area


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Odin enjoyed a bit of freedom

My last blog post is from the autumn last year, so thought it might be time with a little update today. Thank you for your kind patience

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I moved to a new place last in December 2018, about 400 km more south in Spain and into a city in Murcia area

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The photos as you see here are from our new area a little away from our place, until now the only place, where Odin can get a little freedom from the leash

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We explore the area little by little and Odin enjoy those walks

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I hope, that you enjoyed our walk

Remember to live every day!

Irene

Spring signs in Spain


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Beautiful early sunrise seen at our morning walk

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Happy Odin

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Our Almond Trees are blooming now. I hope, they didn’t get the freezing, while here were very cold in the nights. If so, we will get less almonds this year

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Blooming Almond Flowers. They are so beautiful and seen in several colors from pure white to heavy pink. They smell so good

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Bougainvillea as are blooming much of the year, where I live in Spain

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Narcissus, as I found hided today

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I don’t know these flowers, but they are beautiful and a wonderful sign, that the spring is on the way here too

 

I hope, that you enjoyed your visit

Irene

This is my life – for now


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Dear Reader

I haven’t been posting much since I came home from the hospital. Until now, I didn’t find either the needed inspiration or energy for creating new jewelry

In general, I don’t have much energy yet, which also mean, that I need to plan good, when there are things, as are necessary to get done, to save my power best possible, just to be able to do something

For this, I’m not much at WordPress yet, but I do visit and read so many posts, as I can every day

I do still go to control for my health at several doctors. They do all seem to be competent in each their areas. I have been told, that I will need to have much patience, it can take up to 2 years, before I will be in a good shape again. I find this as a really long time to wait and I don’t feel very patient either

The weather, where I live in Spain, is very good now. The last days, we have had up to 27 degrees C. I have been enjoying my garden together with my 2 old cats, Bølle & Hvide and my dog, Odin. It is really nice to be able to enjoy a blue sky and clearly sunshine 😀  It is also nice to sit and knit in my garden

I do my meditation, when I feel for this. I hope to get back to yoga again in short time, at least to some gentle yoga. I met my teacher few days ago and he offered me to come and get a single hour of gentle yoga with him, for what I became happy for. I do know, that both yoga and meditation will help me to feel much better again

I have been “catching” two different kind of new infections inside the last weeks and got antibiotic for both, which always make me feel tired, so of course there are reasons for not having so much energy yet

For now I try my best to boost my immune system by vitamins, minerals and healthy food daily. Do you have any special advice for boosting ones energy level? If so, please tell me and thank you in advance

 

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Wish all of you a beautiful weekend

Irene

Walk in Spain in April – 9 Photos


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Today I will show you some photos from our daily walks here in our part of Spain. Here you see a blooming Almond Tree

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It went very fast after the blooming of the Almond Trees, until the new almonds were visible

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A little more close to see here

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I found some shadow here, why this photo looks more dark

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Odin love to run free here

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We have lots of Borage in natural areas, where no one take care any longer

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I did grow Borage, while I lived in Denmark. I used the beautiful blue flowers in salad, they are eatable and taste good. More than that, they are also nutritious

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I find these Borage so beautiful, they show clearly the spring is arrived here, even we have grey clouds at the sky today. I will not complain, we have had beautiful sunshine and warm weather for a while now and I do often enjoy my food outside in the midday

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There are many Wild Flowers in these areas and I love to see them blooming, all look so promising with hopes for long and sunny days

I hope, that you enjoyed our walk

Irene

Sand Storm in Spain – 8 Photos


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We have had Sand Storm in Spain today, it comes from Africa and pass the Mediterranean Sea. This gives much dust all over here and if we have washed clothe and hanged this outside, we can start all over again. You can see the dust over the sea here, first I thought there were fire, but found out, it was Sand Storm instead, not so dangerous…

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I photographed these photos, while I walked with Odin in the afternoon

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We are not far from the sea here, but I didn’t feel like going there in this dust

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Here you can see the dust change the color of our usual beautiful blue sky

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Here we look from a little more far away

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We pass from here, when we go for our walks, away from most houses

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Here you can see both the beautiful blue sky and the Sand Storm

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 This is our usual place for walking at the moment and the sand did fly here too

I hope, that you enjoyed to join us

Irene

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Spring in March in Spain – 10 Photos


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Odin & I had a walk to check out, how much more close to the spring, we are now

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The Almond Trees are now in full bloom and some of them have lost their flowers already now

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All the Almond Trees, as I show you here, are wild now, no one have been taking care of them for many years

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I really love these Almond Flowers, they are so beautiful

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Here Odin needed a break and rolled and enjoyed himself

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These flowers were hided to the small street out left for the trees

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When I saw them, I just needed to photograph them, such a nice warm color this time at the year

I hope, that you enjoyed our walk

Irene

Life


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We do all experience and meet challenges in our life, some meet more than others and we can just hope, that we are able to handle the challenges, as each of us meet in life

When I look back at my life, I see a lot of positive experiences, which make me happy to think about. Some times have been more fun than others, that is life

I got my kids very early in life and I did never regret to get them, even it was early and more life experiences might have helped me in many ways. I have two adult kids, the first just before I became 20 years old and the second three years later. I have been young with my kids, which has been good in some ways, because went they became teenagers, I still did remember, how it was to be a teenager myself. Not easy…

I have been through many great times, but also times as I could live without. I do know, that all of this have made me to the person, as I am today, but I could still live without these. I have had many times, where I wished, that I had more guidance and support, than I had back then, but what doesn’t kill us, makes us usually stronger

I haven’t been to good to find the best partners, while I was younger. Short time ago, I got to know, that I have been an idiot-magnet sometimes, which I today easily only can agree about. I think and hope, that I now have learned by my mistakes

When we meet idiots, psychopaths, sociopaths etc. then it is not possible not to be damaged in different ways. These kind of monsters, they are not humans – I deny to call them humans – they destroy everyone and everything, as they come close to and unfortunately, they are not always easy to spot up in front, then it would be more easy to avoid them

I did meet this kind of monsters and several of them. They have damaged my soul very much and I have worked very hard and still do, to be healed from all those years

For many years, I have had interest in alternative ways of living, healing, gemstones, meditation etc. In the beginning I worked with these things on and off, later I found out, how much I feel, that the gemstones have helped me in my healing, why I continue to use them in many ways and for some years also to create jewelry with

When I wear jewelry with gemstones, I can feel their power. They can never go instead of a doctors visit, when this is needed, but they can support our healing beside the doctors work

Today I do meditations daily, sometimes several times daily I do also use gemstones, while I meditate, specially when I send healing thoughts to other souls in need. I know, they support me to send, what is needed

Last year I went vegetarian again, which I did not regret. I feel so much better in my body and mind after this. I do yoga, both in a class and at home and this help me to get into a better shape and helps my body to heal too

There are many ways, as we can go, when we wish to heal our wounds from earlier in this life. I chose personal development by many reasons, most of all to learn myself to know, to learn my own limitations for now, then I had something to work from and could see, how far I come day by day

It was a big challenge for me to move to Spain, which I did 4 1/2 years ago. I have been much alone, specially in the first years here, where my Spanish was almost not existing, which makes it difficult to communicate with anyone, when I rarely met people, who were able to speak anything else than Spanish or Catalan

In these first years, I really got to know myself at positive and less positive ways, found my strength after some while and the will to survive, live and enjoy my life. When you are much alone, you have a lot of time to think, which I also did and I got to know myself so well, that I also found out, that I needed help for healing my soul

I read a lot, communicated online with people, read more and got to learn, how I could help myself to heal. First of all, I needed to find out, what to heal from, because there were several reasons. Then I learned, that by forgiving first myself, for at all to let anyone hurt me, was first step. Next step was to forgive the monsters, as did hurt me. This step was the most difficult to come through, until I found out, that I didn’t need to forgive their bad acting, which are not possible to ever forgive, but “only” their existence as being monsters and not humans. I found this as the most difficult, as I have ever learned to do in my life, but after I did, I found out, that I got many energies released from my soul. Today I feel more free than ever before in my life

When I found out to forgive, not for them, but for me, to find my freedom to live, this was the best, I ever have done for myself

Now you know a little more about, why I love to work with gemstones and their energies, they have been priceless in their support for me.

Enjoy your life – while you still are able to

Irene

 

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Spring is arrived in Spain – 10 Photos


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I’m happy to be able to show you the first signs of spring in the area of Spain, where I live. When we see the Almond Trees blooming, it is spring 😀

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The flowers range from white to pink at the Almond Trees

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I saw this rainbow in a part, where I don’t know, where the water is coming from

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I find these flowers so beautiful and they smell heavenly

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All these Almond Trees in this post are wild trees, where no one take care of them any longer. As  you can see, there is an almond from last year too

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What do you think about these Almond Trees?

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These Almond Trees are not in full blooming yet, so I will continue to take photos, when they develope

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This one is specially for you Amy, even I hope, that you will enjoy the other photos too. I photographed this around 1-2 weeks ago, after we talked about the coming spring

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This Almond Tree was the first, I saw this spring. It is a private garden behind, why I wouldn’t go more close to photograph

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Here you see my Rosemary blooming in my garden

I hope, that you enjoyed to see the first signs of spring in Spain

Irene

Walk in Spain in January – 9 Photos


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Odin and I was out walking in a sunny day, which both of us enjoyed. WP are teasing me, while I wish to write too, so no more writing. I hope that you will enjoy our walk too 😀

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Enjoy your weekend

Irene

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