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.

Really snowy now

Yesterday we had a really snowy day, I could not get yo work, roads where blocked and no trains or buses. As I live a lot in the countryside I have a bit to go, but today it was possible to drive again.

And then take a train to Stockholm, here it's a photo of Knivsta from the train station - in the morning. You see all the snow!

My own work in oil

Strange it is, but it iI have painted this face. Not my mother, but probably can see that. It is nowhere close to my mothers art. She was the talanted one with the oils and watercolors.

The reason I difd this was a competition at my workplace, Svensk Damtidning, some years ago. All of us had to do a portrait of a famous Swedish artist Barbro Lill Babs Svensson. This was my entry.
Here is a photo of her, if you are interested from site I work at:
http://svenskdam.se/2010/07/bildspel-diggiloogolf-pa-hooks-herrgard/

First Sunday of Advent

Today we light up all the christmas candles - the real ones and the electric ones as uoy can see in the pictures here.

Because today is the first Sunday of Advent, a tradition here in Sweden that make us light up!

We have almost one Christmas light in every window. As you can se here.

And it's really cold

This morning when I woke up it was almost minus 10 degrees Celsius. Absolutely too cold and freezing for me to want to go outside.

But it is rather beautiful, like the photo here. Snow and a piece of winter sun.

And here is another photo just two weeks ago, a small pond with then still open water. Beautiful.

Winter is here

Really, now it's winter - even if I'm not a big fan of snow and cold weather I must admit it is really beautiful ouside.

Here is one photo from my apple tree garden today in the afternoon - with snow, a bit of sun and some degrees belove zero.

And here is a reminder from just a few weeks ago, with the apples on the ground.

Christmas lights in Stockholm

Now it's time for some Christmans decorations in the sity, here you have a shopping street in the centre of Stockholm, looking down at Sergelgatan.

It's cold and snowy now and you can almost feel the Christmas spirit. More to come...