Viking Land Fairy Tale - 1.

Colors of Viking Land on a grey day, just a quick look around the house.
Vikingföld színei egy szürke napon; csak gyorsan körbenéztem a ház körül. 

I processed some of the photos a little bit, to make them even more fairy tale-ish, others are real colors, like this first one:
Néhány fotót egy kicsit megbabráltam, hogy még meseszerűbbé tegyem őket; a többiek a valódi színeket adják vissza, mint itt az első:







Or this one:
Vagy ez:





And this one is indeed so red!
Ez pedig tényleg ilyen piros!

Testing the sound of Stenbrott

Stenbrott, hangpróba

Oh yes, spring seems to be already here (but I have learnt not to put away my winter jackets till Valborg, end of April...)

Ó igen, úgy tűnik, már itt a tavasz (bár azt már megtanultam, hogy nem rakjam el a télikabátot a Valpurgisz-éjig...)

A little winter feel, if you are still up to it; I had a short excursion to Stenbrott (which is a small lake) in Stenhamra village of Viking Land, and the acoustics of this magical place were so fantastic that I had to quickly try it. Enjoy!

Egy kis téli érzés, ha még belefér; rövid kiránduálst tettem a Stenbrotthoz (ami egy kis tó) Stenhamra faluban a Vikingföldön, és olyan csodálatos az akusztikája ennek a másikus helynek, hogy gyorsan ki kellett próbálnom. Szeressétek!

 


The video was taken standing in the middle of this scene:

A videó itt készült, középen állva:

More pics to come at some point...

Még lesz pár kép...

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Autumn morning

Ószi reggel

Few days ago, I just opened my eyes and jumped out of bed, rushed out to the terrace because this was calling me:

Néhány napja kinyitottam a szemem, kiugrottam az ágyból, kirohantam a teraszra, mert ez hívott:

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God Jul!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas!
Remélem, mindenkinek remekül telik a karácsony!

This is a picture from our window - from last winter, this winter it wasn't so beautiful yet...
Ez a kép az ablakunkból készült - tavaly télen; idén még nem volt ilyen szép...

End of August

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These days I am busy with playing around with our new super-duper machine: it can print, copy, scan and everything, also print CDs. So I take a lot of time to make experiments with it, it's so exciting!
Ezekben a napokban el vagyok foglalva az új, hiper-szuper masinánkkal: nyomtat, másol, szkennel meg minden, CD-re is nyomtat. Úgyhogy sok időt töltök a kísérletezgetéssel, olyan izgalmas!

Now just one picture I took at the end of August (and it helps to remember me that there is such a thing as blue sky...)
Most csak egy kép, amit még augusztus végén készítettem (és ami segít arra emlékeznem, hogy létezik kék ég...)

You get on one of the subway lines going to the West, get off at the end station (Hasselby Strand), and after a few minutes walk, you see such views:
Felül az ember az egyik nyugati irányú metróra, és leszáll a végállomáson (Hasselby Strand), majd pár perc séta után ilyet lát:

Picnic by the lake

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In Tyresta National Park and Nature Reserves near Stockholm, there are several lakes.

Now it's difficult to select only a few pictures, because I took many beautiful ones...

This was the first lake we saw, still on the way to our picnic place:






This one was relatively close to the bus stop and parking lot, but we chose the longer way to another lake, about 4 kilometres away, but it took more than an hour to get there, because of me clicking my little machine all the time... :-)

After I have had only one small sandwich that day and it was already 4 o'clock, a warm day, hiking in also slightly rocky places, it was soooooo wonderful to sit down by the lake, kick off the shoes, tip our feet in the water (now it was fantastic, and not painful cold like here), then have a huge sandwich and some nice salad.

It was just perfect: nice temperature (22 degrees), no noise but birds, wind and water and nobody else around. We even had a little nap: my hubby was sleeping for a whole hour. I woke up earlier and, again, started to click around...





Typical summer clouds:





stockholm

My Midsommar

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Continuing from here

Midsommar (Midsummer) is The Big Holiday for Swedish people. If you can't see almost anything of the Sun for months, it's very well understandable that you will be extremely happy about the days when it is light all day. Here in Stockholm, around the longest day of the year we have 5.5 hours only when the Sun is not up. In the North, it's even more so: the Sun doesn't even go down at all.

Well, lets don't talk about how difficult is to sleep when it is as light as on these pictures, let's just enjoy the summer!

Last year I had a few photos of how people celebrate it when they get together in the community.

Other than this singing & dancing together, it's garden party time: the people disappear from the city and go out to their summer houses for the weekend. So did we on friday: got together with my husband's family and a few friends.

And a dog one of the couples was sitting for a few days, which brought some excitement and funny moments into the not-too-actionful day.

Nice food: a lot of fish, mostly herring prepared in different ways, potatoes, a little grilling and rhebarb in delicious hot zinnamon sauce. The only point was that I couldn't really enjoy the vanilla ice cream that went with it, because I was anyway freezing like hell...

In the middle of summer, around 13 degrees, sitting still for long hours... Brrrrr! Luckily, my husband's jacket was big enough to put on top of my outdoor jacket...

But yesterday it was very nice weather, so we made it up for freezing before.

Me & my Honey had a little trip to Tyresta which is a wonderful national park and nature reserves area. Just outside of Stockholm, so if you follow the Journey planner link on their website, you can easily go there with public transport (type in "Tyresta by" in the "to" field).

It is definitely worth for a trip!

We started with walking in a beautiful primeval forest which is unique: they don't cultivate it but it is left in it's natural state, representing a typical Middle Sweden forest. So you can see dead trees and such pretty often.

A few shots, on the way to our picnic place:

Seagulls waltz

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Seagulls are beautiful birds, I'm sure you agree. Especially at sea.

Here in Stockholm you don't only see them by the water but basically everywhere.



When I moved here, first I found it wonderful to have seagulls outside our window, around the big tree. Isn't it wonderful? For a girl coming from a country where there is no sea!

The strange thing is that it's a suburb in Stockholm, pretty far from any water I know of. We suspect they nest on top of the high houses. And I was wondering what do they live on? Here we have fish only in the supermarkets...

Well, here's the answer: they find all kind of crumbles and other trash, which pretty much takes away from all the aesthetics these creatures are associated with.





And what is more, they have a terribly aweful voice! Why can't they sing nicely, like other decent birds do???

It might sound very romantic when you are walking on the beach with your love.
But when a dozen of them are having a conference just outside your home at 3 in the morning... I got really pissed off last night! Uhhhhhhhhh!

But this song is way much nicer than seagulls singing: Seagull's Waltz by my friend, Evan Paul. You should definitely listen to it!

Liljeholmen, business area

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Okay, so back to Stockholm.

Last week I had to go to Liljeholmen, to change the modem that has died. There is a business area there, with modern office buildings. Steel, beton, glas, stone everywhere.

This art piece is called Origin, if I remember right.





It was extremely refreshing to find a little piece of nature: a pot with pansies. And what was even more interesting for me: in Stockholm, you can see almost only blue/purple and yellow pansies, mostly together in a pot. But finally this pot was more colorful!