Wood anemones

Every spring

my Mom wants to visit the place where she used to play as a child

and see the forest filled with wood anemones.

 

Thursday was a holiday

so we drove to Hörby to have picnic in the forest

and to visit the grave.

 

 

Spring celebrations

April 30th is called Valborgsmässoafton

 

 

 

and you gather around big fires and sing songs to welcome spring.

May 1st

is another day of spring celebrations

especially in the University cities.

 

 

We went to the nearby city of Lund

which has a big university and listened to

 Bleckhornen's spring concert.

Bleckhornen is the band that William has joined.

1:a Advent - winter has arrived

Just in time for 1st of Advent

we got snow

and we could enjoy

this winter weather for almost two weeks .

 

William and I walked to church

and took lots of snowy pictures.

 Foto: William Shelton

 

St. Pauli is a beautiful church in and of itself,

but even prettier surrounded by snow.

 

 

We lit a candle for our neighbor Jim

who was buried that Friday.

 Foto: William Shelton

 

After the sermon we had coffee,

and the senior choir, in which Mom sings,
 were singing Christmas carols.

 

Outside was this tree with

golden leaves that lit up the winter landscape.

After having dinner with my parents

William and I went for a

two hour walk through town and took photos.

Foto: William Shelton

Above the streets there were lights

and lit pine decorations lined the walking street.

Lilla torg with all the old houses

was beautiful as always

Foto: William Shelton

and the shops had their windows

decorated for Christmas.

It was really cold outside,

and the fingers hurt as we were taking photos.

Foto: William Shelton

At Gustav Adolfs torg they had the big trees

decorated in different ways

and lots of lights covered the middle of the square

and warmed up the ground,

but the statue in the pond was still freezing.

Foto: William Shelton

The Christmas stalls were closed for the day

Foto: William Shelton

and above the walking street

it was like a sky full of tiny stars.

Foto: William Shelton

We walked towards home

inside the Old Graveyard

following the canal

where the lights guided us on our way.

Foto: William Shelton



The main library

and the Casino looked like fairy castles in the dark.

Foto: William Shelton

At home,

we each had a big cup of hot cocoa.

Driving my Toyota

Tuesday I drove Terence to work

so that I could have my Toyota.

There was ice on the windshield

and the thermometer showed 5 degrees Celsius.

When I had dropped off Terence

I could listen to my favoriote Sports channel again.

It was freezing

Frost is here

last night the temperature was below freezing,

but we still had a nice Saturday

at Klampenborg Racetrack.

Water had frozen to ice on the plastic chairs

and we admired this very thin and fragile piece of ice.

After drying off the table and chairs

we could have our picnic.

This is my Mom studying the race card,

while my Brother is studying the horses

that are flying past on the heavy surface.

Again, it wasn't the most perfect fall day.

The colors of the trees were a bit dark,

but I could see some red colors over on the other side

in Dyrehavsbakken.

These are the beautiful old stands.

The perfect Fall day

Today it was here,

the perfect fall day that we loook for every year.

This year, just like a similar day 22 years ago,

I brought a baby to the beautiful Bokskogen

just outside of Malmö. 

Eyja's first day in the forest.

Beautiful, beutiful forest,

Photo: Charlene Shelton

with tall beech trees.

surrounded by open fields

and ponds.

Atli is carrying the baby in a baby wrap

and looks like he is pregnant.

Picnic time

 Thanks for lunch Mom!

Visiting Västerås

Thursday evening I took the night train to Västerås

to attend an introduction class for new employees, Friday.

Before taking the train back home in the afternoon

I took a stroll in the nice weather

and noticed that fall was almost there.