Summer evening walk at Lindholmen
The summer vacation is over for this year. The days are noticably shorter but the evenings can still be pleasant when the clouds disperse and the wind drops. Back in Göteborg…
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16 August, 2016
Myckleby Tractor Day 2016
Tractor Day at the Myckleby Parish and Historical Society (hembygdsförening) is probably the main event of the year on the inland side of the island of Orust. The second Saturday…
16 August, 2016
Last week of vacation
This years summer vacation is coming to an end. The week has been cold and wet and extremely windy. Last night the clouds disappeared and the Milky Way was clearly visible…
11 August, 2016
Our cottage under the Milky Way
Looking for elks and elves
If there is one certain thing about Swedish summer it's that it's completely unpredictable. Sunshine and blue skies one moment; wind, rain and heavy dark skies the next. This year's…
7 August, 2016
Evening at “nabbarna”
"Nabbarna" is the cliff we go swimming off when on Orust. There has not been a lot of that this summer since it's been either windy, cold or raining, or…
4 August, 2016
Preparing to fish from nabbarna.
Summer road trip, day three and four
Well, we made it to Ragunda and Hammarstrand and it was as warm as it was beautiful. Lergodset hostel is built between Indalsälven and Kullstaberget mountain and is run by…
23 July, 2016
Roxy riding a sleigh at Lergodset hostel, Jämtland
Summer road trip, day two
We had a room with lots of single beds to ourselves. Breakfast was had in the garden next to the pig farm and the wheat fields. Luckily the wind carried…
21 July, 2016
View over lake Åmänningen from the ferry jetty, Ängelsberg, Västmanland
Summer road trip, day one
Sweden is fantastic. It's also very long. 1572 kilometers long, from Smygehuk in the south to Treriksröset in the north. Most of Sweden's population lives in the southern third of…
20 July, 2016
View over lake Vättern from road in Omberg nature reserve, Östergötland
Our garden…
Gardening has never really been our thing. Things grew here when we moved in, some things have withered and died, other things have thrived. Our dogs have dug the garden…
18 July, 2016
Tomorrow is the last day before vacation
Tomorrow is Friday and the last working day before the summer vacation. It's probably the best day of the year when the whole vacation is still ahead, still intact, still unbroken... It hasn't passed,…
14 July, 2016
Sunday afternoon in downtown Greensboro
A cooler day than forecast. Overcast but no rain. Drove to downtown and wandered around looking at the preparations for the July 4 celebrations. These photos probably don't show Greensboro…
3 July, 2016
Max Patch Mountain
Max Patch is a bald mountain top in the Appalachians close to the border between North Carolina and Tennessee not far from Asheville. After being mesmorised by a picture on social…
2 July, 2016
