Happy New Year!

Back from the snow and only back home for three hours, until I went to my parents place to celebrate Silvester. We had a fondue and then my sister, her boyfriend and me played a new card game all evening. Eventually we even found out what we had to do.... At midnight we had Bailyes instead of champagne and watched the fireworks outside. That's it. Just a nice evening with family.

And now it is time to wish you a happy new year 2012! May many of your wishes - all would be boring! - become true!

Is there a better way to wish a happy new year than with an ABBA-song?

If only I could have you back

if only I could have you back

we would do all the things we used to do

over and over again

work in the garden

visit your friends

go for a walk in our town

buy a Christmas tree

look at old photographs

throw stones in a fountain

take pictures

eat chocolate

if only I could have you back

we would do new things

for the first time

and I would be able to ask questions

and to get all the answers

if only I could have you back

I could met you as an adult

not as the small child I was when I lost you

to my grandad who passed away 12 years ago and who I still miss very much. I love you, Grospi! 

Love letter to autumn

Dear autumn

I like you very much. You may wonder why as some people say that you're making them feel depressed. But I can tell you why I love you.

It is because of marrons and cookies and mulled wine and tea. Coloured leaves and fog, winter frost and the first snow. Long evenings on the sofa with a good book and a warm blaket. And of course it is because I can look forward to Christmas without all the stress cause there is still enough time to buy presents and bake cookies. 

The time will come when you have to leave and winter will arrive. I will be sad, of course. But then... Well, you will come back next year. I'm looking forward to it! 

With lots of love

Yours tea-queen

Just a small note about my pictures. I take most of them with my Nikon D-90 and the only thing I do on the computer is adding my name and change the size if necessary. I do not belive in photo shop, this is not the way I see photography. For me it is the art of the moment, a situation you catch to remember it and to show it to others. No need to change anything.