Happy new Year!

Just a few hours left of 2013, just preparing for tonight. With Champagne of course!

Wish you all a Happy New Year!! And have a nice evening where ever you are!! Like I will have here in Sweden.

New Year soon

It is now time to say goodbye to 2013 and welcome 2014, a new year that I hope will bring you all fantastic things.

So I wish You All a Happy New Year!
Th building in the pic is made by my late mother Gunvor, it is in ceramic, and I put a light inside.

Merry Christmas!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas to you all. All over the world!

And I hope that you have a holiday that gives you peace and serenity. And a lot of good food.

Here is my "Christmas tree" -  with lights and all the rest - this year.

And here is another pictures of my Christmas window.

First Advent

Today is the first Advent, and I have picked up my Advent-candleholders. Just as I always do this time of the year.

And all the other lights I have, just to make the darkness a little bit less dark...

Another window with lights of different types. One electric and one candlelight.

Making angels in the sand

Just love this photo. I live in a country with a lot of snow in winter time. So I have made snow angels a lot of times, in Thailand, Phuket you do not see a lot of snow.

So then you have to make sand angels. Like this two children in Kamala beach.

Beach photos

Love to walk along the beach, wherever I am. Hopefully the beach is like this, not crowded with a lot of people.

This time is some photos from Thailand again, from lovely Kamala Beach in Phuket.

You can clearly see the tide, a lot of sand to walk in this day. And very relaxing.

Remembering the dead

Yesterday was the day here in Sweden when we remembered our dead at All Saints Day.

For me it was my mother Gunvor, my father Bertil and my uncle Åke and all the others through history.

They all rest here in at this cemetery at Östuna kyrka, and my parents in this chapel here.

Here in a photo of the church, Östuna from the 1400, but like it it today it is from 1700.

And here is a photo from the inside of the church. The crucifix is from 1200.

More from Cape Sienna

Some more photos from Cape Sienna in Kamala, on the rocks overlooking the bay and the sea.

Here above is one pic of the pool at night, so lovely. This is the third time I stayed here.

And here is one pic from the day, love to swim in the cool pool early in the morning, just before breakfast.

Look at this view, and the pink cloud I saw one day, just before the rain.

Walking at the beach

I really like walking in Kamala, not much people and a really relaxing just listening to the waves.

Here on my way to the beach. It is not much water at this hour, it's tide.

Here you can se some fishing boats, waiting to go out later when the water comes back.

On the way to the beach you also can see these local drink- and food stalls.

From my balcony

This is the view from my balcony at Cape Sienna hotel in Phuket. This was the third time here at the hotel.

One day with ebb, with almost no water outide in the sea at Kamala beach.

And this photo, from my hotel room with a lot of water and flow. Loe the colof of the water.

Back again...

Just came home from another vacaition in Thailand, and once more i I stayed at hotel Cape Sienna in Kamala in Phulet.

Here is a photo from the evening at the new bar they built this year.

And then one photo of the pool during dinnertime. It was really tempting, all day long. More photo's later...

Looking at some windows

Here you have three different windows from old buildings here in Sweden, the first one is from an old barn that is in ruins.

And this one here is also an old barn, but half of it is still standing, with a roof.

It was used to be a an imposing building, built over 200 years ago, painted in red, Falu rödfärg.

Here you have an old, smaller house that now is falling apart, the window give you a glimpse of what is behind the building too.

Love struggle

Now a piece of my late mother Gunvor's art again, a statue of two people in love, but it is called a Love struggle.

It is like a dance they do together, or what do you see?

Walking just now

Here are som photos from the last couple of days here in Sweden, its is really like summer even if it's autumn.

A walk in ths sun, on the fields, just before it is getting cooler outside.

Here is one field before the harvest. The one below is after. 

And one more photo from Sweden, getting straw for the winter.

My pizza oven

My wood burning pizza oven in the garden has been in use again this summer.  It really make the best pizzas, the one's made as "forno a legna".

It only take a minute to get the best home made pizzas ever!

Then I give you a photo of another, very old, garden - and it's not mine -  with these lovely old pillars made in stone on the back of the house.
Read also:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2011/10/homemade-pizza-al-forno-legna.html

More art by my mother

My dear, dear friend in Rome, Marta, gave me this photos of my late mother Gunvors work that she has hanging on her wall in Italy.

It is two pieces of art in textile. applications. One is mostly in red and blue colors.

The other one is in yellow and in blue. They are made to hang together on a wall.

Here is a pictures of both, looking good, and really nice to see! Grazie Marta!! "Sorella mia".

Street in Stockholm

This is one of the street I pass every day to go to work, Jakobsbergsgatan in Stockholm.

I'ts a hanging flower basket - one of many this summer here in Sweden.

And then another summer flower, a big yellow sunflower close to home.

A friend of mine wrote a book

One of my best friends wrote a book, not just her either, together with her husband. I just have to write about it, it is just soo exiting. It is kind of a childrens book, but ok for adults too.

The book is "Tommy Wilkins and the Black smiles", by Kristina Lonnquist and Stan Eales, as Christina & Stanley.

The story follows the struggles of twelve-year-old Tommy Wilkins as the fabric of his existence slowly unravels to reveal another reality underneath. Tommy has problems like most young people: an overbearing Dad and struggles as school. But he also has problems over and above his friends: 1. He has an overwhelming predilection for sweets. 2. His mother has disappeared mysteriously. 3. His Grandfather died mysteriously. 4. His Dad’s housekeeper, ‘The Dragon’ does not seem to be human!
The story also takes place in a parallel world, Candyland. This is a kind of ‘therapeutic heaven’ for children who have died in tragic circumstances. 

Read moore at Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilkins-Smilies-Elysium-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00DGYLIIA/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1375336615&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=Kristina+Lonnquist

Swedish summer

Just some photos from this summer here in Sweden, from my walks in the sun.

First two pictures is from an old barn, that now is in ruins.

Two barns that does not "work" no moore. But beautiful anyhow.

Then we have a field of cereal, to become grain later on, not ready to be harvested yet. But soon.

An to finish off, a bot in concrete with floers. Lovely!

At Hötorget in Stockholm

Must share this pic from Hötorget in Stockholm, where they sell flowers and fruit, among other fresh things. It is always nice to walk around here and bou fresh wegetables and berries.

Now it's time for raspberries and strawberries. Good price for the flowers and fruit too, especially if you come at Saturday before closing time.

And then I give you one photo from my garden wit lovely white flowers with a lot of perfume.

The pond

Love this photo of our little pond inte the garden. My brother made it some years ago, and I tried to help. Last year we had some goldfish in it, but not this year.

But we have an water lilly - Nymphaeaceae - in the pond instead. Really beautiful.

Summer road

This is what I love, dringing home in the summer night, the photo here is taken just a few days ago.

All green and warm an sunny. Even if it's late in the summer evening, coming home after work.

And this is a reminder of how it looked just a few month ago, in winter, the same road, same time. But oh, what a difference!!

Cat - and me - resting in Bangkok

It was really hot this day, about 36 degrees and humid. I loved it, but it was a little to hot for this cat in one street of Bangkok in Thailand.

It belonged to one taxidriver, that is why you can see the blue phone in the pic.

And here is my hotel in Bankok, Century Park hotel A nice hotel with a pool on floor 6.

Here is a view fom my hotel window, at the pool, and the street below.

The hotel pool and its little garden was a place I visited often during my two nights stay.

And another pic of the hotel pool and sun chairs.

Here you are in the lobby.