From the moment he saw the mist coming off the fountain he knew one thing had to happen.
The only thing that could happen and that is for this wall of mist to blow over him so that he could feel the complete effect. So here he waits but so far nothing.
Nope,that didn't work. Why not get a little closer?
Not happening. Let's try it from over here. "I think it's coming!" Almost, ....almost. Not yet.
And when you least expect it. The mist will rise up to meet you.
From the moment he saw the mist coming off the fountain he knew one thing had to happen.
The only thing that could happen and that is for this wall of mist to blow over him so that he could feel the complete effect. So here he waits but so far nothing.
Nope,that didn't work. Why not get a little closer?
Not happening. Let's try it from over here. "I think it's coming!" Almost, ....almost. Not yet.
And when you least expect it. The mist will rise up to meet you.
After the surprise snow of Easter, the signs of winter are finally melting away.
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Just a few days after arriving back from Paris, we had our first day with spring here in Stockholm. It felt so strange as we have had winter since November now and we all thought that we had to wait until May for spring. But today the sun was really warm and all the snow started to melt.
There was water pouring in the streets, snow falling from roofs.
While walking I started to look for the first spring flowers, but realized very soon that it is much too early, it is just the spring feeling that makes you think that way.
But it will be snow here for a long time as we have had so much snow this winter, but in a month or so we will see the first spring flowers and will not see any snow at all.
Following the ski trail.....
we find people walking unintentionally in a line.
Some fine a solitary moment.
Some walk way, way, out.....almost to the other side.
And what's this? What do you see boy?
Yea!!!!! hot dogs, Korv, hurry hurry....let's go quickly.
Eating our hotdogs we watch the others, still walking in a line.
But all the while, all of them, all of us, are walking on the sea.
By Per Svangren
Still there is so much snow here in Sweden. There is snow everywhere and it is very beautiful but we now are longing for spring to come.
Maybe that is why we are buying a lot of tulips. All of us. Yep,that should give us a feeling of the coming spring.
Long icicles are climbing down from the roofs and we all are very afraid of what will happened when the snow is melting and all the snow will fall down from the roofs. Then we will have a dangerous period, walking on the pavement.
For now, we just have snow and the beauty that it brings but oh how I wish for spring.
Did you blink? If you have you might have just missed it. What's that you ask?
Stockholm has a new record and that would be that it has only seen the sun 4 hours for the entire month of November. That was until last saturday when the sun reared it's sunny head to give Stockholm more hours of sunlight in an entire day than it had seen in the whole month of November.
I hope everyone enjoyed their few hours of needed sunshine. When it's dreary.....I suggest heading over to cinema Victoria in Söder and watching Coco before Chanel. Truly poignant and beautiful.
The black gold, the mushrooms of Gotland, Bourgone truffles. Every fall the season starts sometime in September and lasts until sometime in December. Around 40 truffle dogs, Lagottos are working with their noses around the forests to find the truffles. It grows about 10 cenimeters or deeper under ground and you need a very good nose to find them. Lagotto are perfect for it. They are traditionally used in Italy, but they have become our tradition here in Sweden too.
Gotland is a good place for truffles, but they have also been found on Öland and in a few other places, but Gotland is the best place. You can´t pick truffles in other peoples land, so you need to own your own forest for it or pick in other people's forest by invitation only.
We have a big parcel of land, but we also pick for other people and our dog Diesel is a truffle king. Very fast he scan the area we are in and dig out the truffles. This weekend he picked over two kilos in about two hours. So we were very pleased and all the truffles were sold out directly.
You can eat truffles raw or heated up to maximum 70 degrees Celcius. Otherwise they loose their taste. If you have more than you can eat during the two weeks they are fresh, a good thing to do is truffle butter. Just cut small pieces of truffles into room temperature butter, stir and mix. Then put it in the freezer and you got a perfect taste for fried meet, boiled fish or in an omelette.
There is a lot of limestone in the Northeast section of Gotland. on the south part of the island it is sandstone. You will find old broken and closed limestone factories but there is still one working in Slite. Eventually, as more and more limestone was taken from the earth there would come a point when the mine would fill up with water.
These quarries are deep and the water is very clear and turqoise, just like one might find in the Caribbean. The most famous quarry is called The Blue Lagoon. In the summer it is crowded with people swimming and sunbathing.
