Kamala beach

Of course you have to go down to the beach when you are in Thailand, here I am on Kamala beach.

At off season it is not really crowded, found a few persons there, like these two Thai women.

Getting a tan

As soon you arrive in the hotel and the sun shines you take a sun ben and try to get a nice tan. Or just reading a book in the shades, whatever you prefer.

This is a pic from my hotel this year, chic and stylish Hotel Cape Sienna in Kamala beach in Phuket.

In august the weather is not always sunny, here you have a pic from the hotel balcony, a windy day.

Breakfast Thai style

And this is a really lovely breakfast Thai style. Fresh, exotic fruit in the morning just after a nice swim in the pool, what could be better?

This is a plate I had on my vacation at Cape Sienna in Phuket, every morning. So loved the frozen youghurt with mango in the cup! Mmm, memories...

Going on holiday

It all starts with a good breakfast, a 10 days I went on a well deserved holiday, back home now and ready to write all about it. And the photo here is from the airport of Stockholm, Arlanda at the time for breakfast.

Cookies and cakes can really make a wonderful start of the day, or is it...? And where I am going this time? To Thailand and the island of Phuket. More photos will come later.

Just roses

This is really simple and so beautiful - pink roses just outside my hose som weeks ago.

They are not only lovely to look at, the roses also have a lovely perfume.

Pots in metal

I had show you examples before of pots and vases in ceramic and concrete, and oall of different stiles.

Here is a couple of big pots made of metal, with huge flowers in the vase.

And the photo here is taken outside Krusenberg castle just outside Knivsta and close to Uppsala.

Yellow fields

In English this is called colza cultivations, these yellow fields produce Rapeseed Oil or Colza Oil. You can use it in many different ways, we use the good one's in the cooking, like olive oil.
It taste very good!

But now days you also use it as Biodiesel. Many city buses use it here in Sweden.

So when you travel in Sweden in the early summer you can see a lot of these yellow fields.

Tea with a view

Just imagine to be here - and sit in one of the chairs for a afternoon tea, by the lake.

It's peacful and with a beautiful view of the waters, just an half hour outside Stockholm.

Mother's work again

Another religious motive from my late mother Gunvor, and her ceramic collection.

This one is a sculpture of a nun lifting up a child somewhere in the world, my mother was herself very active in the local Red Cross.

Sheep with lambs

Look here what I found yesterday, som sheep with lambs in the green. That is really summer for me, and so sweet to look at.

And here is one more photo of these sweet little woolly animals, in the middle of the "wild"- or should I say in a small park.

Cake at work

Today we got to taste this homebaked cake after lunch at my job, at Svensk Damtidning, the logo that you see on the cake.

The girl who made it was on her last day at work today, after the summer at our magazine. If you are interested to see where I work, at the magazines site, it's here:
http://svenskdam.se/

River run wild in Uppsala

More photo's from Uppsala. This Fyris river runs wild in the central parts of Uppsala. This photo is taken some weeks ago, in summer. Boats can still sail up the river from lake Mälaren.

And this is a piece of the more modern Uppsala, the department store Åhlens.

It is not beautiful, but a famous, or infamous, part of the modern architecture in the city center.
An earlier entry about Uppsala:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/08/in-uppsala.html

Greenhouse

Would you not dream to have a greenhouse? A place where you can harvest your own veggies and or flowers, even in the winter? But not standing outside your home, but inside.

One of my friends have that possability, lucky her!! Here you can pick your own grapes.

In Uppsala

Here you have some photis that Itook a week ago in Uppsala. A beautiful city close to Stockholm. It is a town with an important university.

It is also famous for its Cathedral, here you can see the church steeples in the background.

Uppsala also have a big old castle, from the 16th century the Uppsala Castle. And you can see a piece of it in the background, with one tower.

Climbing up the wall

This is a beautiful blue clematis Climbing up the wall of my house. It has survived cold vinters and hard winds. And it's still standing.

The clematis is looking good this summer, as all the other summers before.

Lake view

This is summer at it's best, a lake view over a little lake just outside Stockholm. Beautiful and serene.

Was at a friend's place yesterday and had a lovely time - and got these views too - what more could you ask for?

Summer in the window

Just some greetings from me here in Sweden, summer in the window. Just some summer flowers in a window, flowers that I picked up outside in the wild.

And the wase is from my mother Gunvor, mad in ceramic, as usual. Just love to use it.

Horses on a field

Out here in the country we have a lot of horses around, my brother and his daughter just have one, but as horses should not be alone we have some more with him.

This is the three of them on a field close to my home one evening. So love summer!!

And here you have the leader of the pack, she is the oldest of them and white - and very nice. Not ours thu.

Selling mussels

This is a part of the neapolitan tradition of presepial art - nativity scenes - Presepe Napoletano. Here you do not only find the ordinary scenes, but also sellers of food, animals and markets, even soccer stars.

This is one of the mussel salesman, was a gift from a friend. But I seen the same ones for sale in the old city of Naples in Italy. They have one street where you can buy these "figurini" of all kind.
Found one shop online - see it here:
http://www.presepenapoletano.net/

And here you can read an earlier blog entry about things I found in Napoli:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/07/ex-voto-from-napoli.html

Remembering Malta

It was some months ago now that I was travelling to Malta. But I just wanted to remember the place and the sun, beach and sea now when it starts to get more of autumn-like here in Sweden.

Here you can see the bay of Mellieha and hotel Seabank in the left corner.

From flower to a drink

Elderberry or Sambucus, the loved one have many names. This is some nice tasting flowers from the Elderberry bush, also called Sambucus nigra. In Swedish we call it Fläder.

I have a lot of them in my garden and use them every summer for making a syrup that I mix with water and then drink with a lot of ice. I pick the flowers and together with a lemon in pieces and some sugar and water I leave it in a big bowl for 3 days. Then I pour it in a sieve and the remains become a nice tasting syrup.

Tree fungus

Yesterday I gave you something nice, and it was lovely to eat and nice to look at, my wild raspberrys. This time it is something completely different, a tree fungus. A bit icky...

It grows on a tree in my garden, a tree that I thought was dead but it is not really.

And then I have to give you something nice to look at again, some wild flowers from my garden.

Wild raspberries

I just love the taste of freshley picked raspberries, these one's are wild and so incredebly tasty and sweet.

Just came back from an hour in the bushes, got some but most landed in my mouth.

My favorite of sculptures

This is my absolute favorite of sculptures that my mother Gunvor made thru the years. It is a torso that looks like a piece of wood with its bark, with all its worm traces and all.

One of the pics it's from the front the other one is from the back of the female torso med in ceramic. If you have read this blog before you may have come across the torso before. But I love it soooo much!

My mother was very inspired from all the things around us, especially from the nature.