Church today and yesterday

Look at this photo, taken some days ago in 2014, is a picture of the road to the church, Östuna kyrka, outside Uppsala.

And here is a photo from over 100 years ago. It is some differences but the church looks more or less the same.

The trees are a lot bigger and you see the church in the old photo. The old dirt road is gone in the new photo as you can see, thanks for that!

Painting by Edvard Friström

Some years ago I bought this painting in a shop, without knowing anything about the artist. Now I know he is known as Clas Edvard Friström, or Edward Fristrom, born in Sweden 1864, but he moved abroad and became a famous painter in New Zealand.

He then moved again with his family, wife and their children, to the USA, where he died 1950, in California. My painting in watercolor is probably made in Sweden, it is a view of Kalmar Castle.

A Close up on the signature, Edward Fristrom.

Read more about him here››

A walk on the beach again?

During the winter here in Sweden many of us are dreaming of a sunny day at the beach. Like this here, when I was in Thailand last year.

But soon again I will be in the sun, in Asia. Dreaming of it every day now. The pictures here in from Kamala beach in Phuket.

An as you can see here in my photos it is not really crowded. Just a few persons on the beach.

Here is a pic from a restaurant I dined at in the evening. Just at the beach.