Welcome to my garden

Happy Summer Solstice everyone!

Those of you who follow me on Instagram have noticed that I've spent a lot of time in my garden this spring. I prefer gardening to work out, so it's been a couple of hours. Above is a photo of one of the tulips I planted last fall. 

Winter in Sweden was unusually mild, and spring came early, so flowers and veggies are currently growing like mad. It's with mixed feelings I watch the garden grow like this, as we all know by now, it comes with a price...

My veggie garden is all in wooden containers (pallets) where I grow zucchini, potatoes, beans, lettuce and a few other goodies. The pic below is of the sugar beans today:

But, being me, I grow more than food in the pallets. 

Here are a few of the flowering bulbs from this spring:

.... but behind the scene it's just as messy and functional as ever. Have great weekend friends.

For more photos from my garden, please check out my Instagram gallery.

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Instagram Love: Julian Escardo

Remember the beautiful photo above? I posted it here, some months ago, because I loved the stunning composition, the soft shades of grey and the simple complexity of form. The person behind the lens is the Paris based photographer Julian Escardo, and since my previous post, we've become Instagram friends. Lucky me!

In his own words, Julian Escado is "adrenalized by photography, the possibilities, the art, the instant gratification, the communication process." OK, so what inspires him? "Life itself. Every hour of the day offers a different light quality, texture, color…even smells can be made visible." 

Below are a few of my favorite photos from his vast body of work - sophisticated and elegant, sometimes mysterious, sometimes humorous. You can buy his prints from here.

If you want to see more images like these, head over to Julian's beautiful Facebook page. Or go here or to his blog. If you'd like to know more about the philosophy behind his work, check out this interview,. And if you want to know more about the man behind the Nikon, here is a new interview.
If you might want to join me and follow Julian on Instagram. See you there! I am wabisabistyle. 

Julian Escardo: it is my hope to stir emotion when people view what I do. I thrive to take a relatively static subject such as architecture and show flow, harmony and movement. Like it is alive...

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Today's Insta Love: Christine Bauer

Good morning friends. Let me start the weekend by giving you 

another of my newly found friends on Instagram: christinebauerphoto. 

Christine Bauer is a German based interior and stillife photographer. 

The beautiful pics below are from her website. 

On Instagram she post more off the cuff images, 

like the beautiful landscape view with the lonely tree above (one of my favs),

or interesting behind the scene photographs from current assignments.

If you don't have Instagram on your phone,

you can easily take part of the fun over there,

by checking in via your computer.

See you all there! I am wabisabistyle.

Now - let's enter Christine's world

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Instagram Love: Nikki Green-Kunz

"Get an iPhone" my friends said. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why? My old cell/mobile was working fine, so why buy another gadget, just because it's out there? Eventually I caved in... I must have been the last on the block to get one. 

Now I know a smartphone is so much more than just a phone! Now I can't stop playing with all the apps! Especially Instagram, which is a great tool, if you are an image maker, like me. 

And I've made tons of new friends over there. Nikki Green-Kunz is one. She makes the most amazing collages and show to us on Insta. Here are just a few samples of her endless creativity. More greatness over at her new blog. If you want to follow her on Instagram, her name there is nikki_greenkunz. 

... and if you want to follow me on Instagram, I am wabisabistyle. 

Are you an Instagrammer? Then, what's your signature??? 

Let me know, so I can follow you! 

See you there. Too! 

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