In my window

Here is to all of you! A vase full of perfumed Lilac's, or Syringa Vulgaris as it is called in latin.

Love those - take them inside as soon as I can. The vase is old and come from my family.
We call the flower's Syren.

Door handle

Is this beautiful or what, an antique door handle that you can find on a old door at a house here in Sweden. The house itself is from around 1760.

But the door knob is more recent, shaped like an fantasy animal of some kind.

Yellow hill

The nature these days here in Sweden are just so beautiful, this is one hill painted in yellow by the flowers, the trees are not completely summer green yet.

And the we have this photo of another forest, this time the grass in full of blue flowers.

The blue flowers are mostly the Forget me not, Förätmigej, in Swedish or Myosotis scorpiodes.

Another mosaic table

This is another mosaic table I made myself, not the whole table of course, but the top. I used glass mosaic, already cut in pieces and all of them in blue and green color's.

So this time the pattern was easier, just random, no landscape. An this wooden table I have in my livingroom, not outside, so it will last longer than the other one...
Read more about the other one her:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2011/11/my-mosaic-table.html

Before the apples

It is lovely now in my garden, the apple trees are like this, love the apple blossoms and the lovely perfume they give. You have to get a bit close to see them and to get the perfume.

But when you do they look like this - beautiful is't it?

Sunset at nine

I just wanted you to see how beautiful a Swedish sunset could be, from a window at nie a clock in the evening.

I love Swedish summers, just bring the light, do not mind is bright almost all night long.

Nice place to stay in Rome

This in not what I normally do here at my site, but I love to travel and I was in Rome some month ago. I was at a trip in the middle of the country, as I have told you about before. I was looking at a house to buy but turned out to be a ruin. Here you see Monumento Vittorio Emanuele.

When I was in Italy, in Rome, I stayed at this place, Hotel Capitolium - Town House Suite in Via Montebello 104. Just close to the station, Stazione Termini. I paid just 55 euro a night for a very nice double room.

Comfy bed, a nice shower room and some sweets and slippers on your pillow.

Red-flowered Primula veris

This is some of my fave flowers, growns in my garden during the late spring and summer, in English they are called red-flowered Primula veris plants. Of course I also have them in yellow.

But these ar so much nicer, thay actually have a nice perfume too. And if you are interested, we call them Gullviva here in Sweden.

Flowers - in ceramic

My mothers work again,these are some flowers  - in ceramic. They are just so beautiful!

And this is her ceramic cutting board. Also that made of ceramic. I use it for garlic and other "smelly" stuff. And it reminds me of her every time.

Walking in the sun

This photo is taken rather late, about 8.30 in the evening. Love the light in Swedish spring och summer, especially this late.

Going for a walk just now, the same way as this on the photo.

Prunus Spinosa

This is a Prunus Spinosa, also called Blackthorn or Sloe, in Swedish we call it slånbär. So this is a slånbärsbuske in full bloom.

In the autumn I use the berries to make a really good bitter-sweet liqueur. I collect them after they had their first frost-bite. Then i pinch them with a needle and put them in a yar with alcohol. After some weeks i add sugar - mixed with some water.

Ceramic in black

This ceramic bowls, from my mother Gunvor, is almost black in the colour. And that is because she did not burn the ceramic in a kiln but in a hole in the earth, like they did long time ago, in the stone age.

Then she polished the surface with a smoth stone, so it looked like it was painted.

Art in my garden

I do have art from some other artists than my mother Gunvor. Like this one in rusty metal that stands in my garden during the summer.

It is an italian artist - from Naples - Lino Ajello that made it, he also have one bigger that was a decoration in a restaurant in Stockholm over 10 years ago.

An old barn

Love old buildings, like this old barn here in Sweden. It is not in use anymore but you can still se the beautiful windows.

It is painted in red, like som many other buildings here in the country, it is called Falu-rödfärg.

Birches in the spring

Some proof that it really is spring outside, even if it still is very cold outside. Here you have some birches close to my home.

And as an extra treat I give you some red tulips - also from my garden.

More of Helsingborg

I have some more photos of Helsingborg, a lovely city in the south of Sweden. I am here in the harbour in Råå, just outside of Helsingborg.

Unfortunately it was raining and it was very windy too, the photos was taken late one evening last week.

House on house

Isn't this fun! It is some house's on to of another house here in Stockholm, on Mäster Samuelsgatan. It is on top of the shoppingmall Mood.

I have heard you can rent the small houses for coferences and meetings.

In Helsingborg

I have been away for a few days, in Helsingborg in the south of Sweden. Here is one photo, it was really bad weather, raining.

But this photo will give you an idea of the city in Skåne.

And here under you can see inte inside of Grand Hotel in Helsingborg, a classic one.

A house made of yarn

This is another of my mothers art pieces, a minicarpet, hand made after a photo she took af a building here in the country.

It is made of wool yarn, some of it she dyed herself. My mother Gunvor made it lika a painting to hang on a wall, I love it, do you?

Grass is good

Yes, fresh grass is very good - if you are a horse - then it is fantastic, after eating the dry stuff the whole winter.

You can se one beautiful horse here, in the sun, late one evening here in Sweden. Finally spring!

Eating out

I do lunch out every day when I am at work, normally just close by my office and just för a short time. It cost me around 100 Skr, that is about 12 Euro.

But sometimes I take a little bit longer lunches, like this time when I had a lovely long lunch at Sturehof in Stockholm, at Stureplan.

More spring flowers

And here we go again, more flowers, after all it is finally spring. Even if it is very cold outside still.

These blue ones are called Grape Hyacinth in English.

Two ladies

Lazy and relaxed, that how I could desicribe this lady made of clay, by my mother of course. The model is sitting in a chair and maybe thinking about life.

And here you have another woman, also sitting in a chair but she is more active in her pose, the hands are behind her head.

Wich statue do you prefer?

In Italy - after the quake

Here we are in the town of L'Aquila in the region of Abruzzo in Italy. The city shook badly in the big earthquake three years ago, in april 2009. This photo is taken this spring but what you don't see is the old city, that still today is completely in ruins. Sad.

That is also why I could not come close enough to take photos.

So therefore I bring you this photo of another beautiful landscape in central Italy, Le Marche.

A cheese sandwich & candle holders

These are two more candle holders made by my mother, in ceramic with a pattern of leafs she found in the garden.

Hungry? Maybe a cheese sandwich? But not this one, made by my mother in ceramic.

A forest

Welcome to this forest painted in wild colors, some of them made in the photo by me - thou...
As usual it is painted by my mother. I my taste it is not one of her best works, but it's fun to see anyhow.

Love to take a walk here...