At home - inside and outside

Just relaxing at home just now after a day at work. It is still very much Christmas at my home as you can see here. And my cat is on the sofa, as usual.

And outside it looks like this. Cold and a bit of snow. But at least it is sunny!

Love this tree, it just wont die! Even if we had to cut of the big branches as they were falling on my grass and it was just too dangerous.

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.

Christmas is over now

This is the day we here in Sweden get rid of the Christmas tree and other things from the holidays. New year and new beginnings. Even if my family love all this really old things as you can see here.

So goodbye to Christmas for now, maybe even I will get a tree next year, not just some bransches with lights in them as you remember....

More winter

And here is two more photos of this long, cold and snowy Swedish winter. Cold it is, at this photo it was 10 degrees below zero.

But I must say, it is rather beautiful too. In it's own vierd way. I do not like winters, but I can appriciate an amazing landscape.

And here is another photo of a Swedish winter of my garden, before we got a really lot of snow.

A foggy day

No sun today, it was instead a really foggy day. Could not see clearly but the landscape as always is beautiful.

Here you have a misty old park, almost a little scary, mystic and spooky. But I sure love it! Remember, yesterday was the All Saints day! Wrote about that here:
http://agnetanisbeth.blogspot.se/2012/11/remembering-dead.html

And here you have a piece of the foggy scenery that I saw under my sunday walk.

Autumn colors

And so another photo of my forest, a piece of autumn colors. So pretty!

Nature can really be lika a painting in autumn, love it! The colors are amazing and the nature is inspiring. And Love Sweden too!

Colors of autumn

I really love summer, the sun, the warm weather and all the green grass, the flowers and so on. But I must say thay I am really fond of the autumn too.

Just look at these lovely Maple leafs close to my home here in Sweden in all the colors, red, orange and green.

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.

Berries to be

Redcurrants to be, they are still a bit green, but soon I will make marmelade and other lovely things.

Here they are in another photo, more close up.

An soon I will have my lovely apples to pick from my garden, all organic of course. But this is what they look like a week ago.

In some weeks time, this is going to be an apple pie or something else.

A not so dead tree

This Maple tree had to be cut of since the branches where so rotten they easily could have fallen off and cause some harm, one branch already falled off during a storm, thank God no one got hurt then.

But the tree did not want to die, as you can see som new, very small branches it growing. It give me hope just to look at it!

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.

A home for the birds

Even the birds have facy homes, and less elegant too, like this one in my garden in Sweden. It has new inhabitants every year.

It is placed on a tree and of course hand made in wood. Hope my bird house will have a lot of birds this year too.

More bowl's

Here is two more of the wounderful bowl's made like leafs, and made in ceramic.

The first one here is made to look like oak leaf's, this is my favourite.

And then we have this two bowl's, one isreally smal and almost flat. The other one more traditional.
And as usual, all of them made by my late mother Gunvor.

Baobab tree

When I was in Africa I also discovered a tree called Baobab tree, it is the national tree af Madagascar and is very common in Africa.

It is known as the tree of life. And it is providing with food, shelter and clothing. The leaves is used as medicines.

The fruit of the tree is called monkey fruit and look like a dead rat, hanging in the tree - but it provides vitamin c and is eaten.

For most of the year the tree is leafless and it looks lite its is turned upside down. These pictures was taken at my hotel, Sheraton in The Gambia.

Summer and winter

All seasons have their benefits, but as you may know by now I am not a big fan of winter. But I can't deny that it could be really beautiful with snow.

Here you have a photo from last winter. It's still raining and rather warm outside, more autumn than winter. Thank's for that!

And here you have the same place in summer, with different shades of green everywhere.
I know what I prefer, but both seasons has it's charm.