Views from the Cottage

Some views from the cottage we are living in.

 Laholmsbukten (bay) with Halmstad in the background.

 The cottage.

 Cows who are fighting.

 Little Fiffi.

 Paulina and Tor...

...and a colony of sheep.

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Kram Eva

I'm happy :)

You can actually feel very happy and satisfied when you are able to buy a bouquet of beautiful roses like this for only three gold coins (30 sek). Last time I did that they hold for nearly two weeks :)))

The Spring is here - At Last!

Finally, spring came anyway. It has been eagerly awaited this year. We have no warmth to speak of yet, but the sun is shining, and it gets warmer and warmer for each day. The leaves on the trees haven’t sprung out yet, but it’s just a matter of time now.

Spring flowers

Viola - Pensé

Mini Easter Lily

Scilla (?)

Meet my new friends.

The little blue dog Vilda and the Big turtle Willy.

Mademoiselle Frog.

King Frog.

And this is my old friend Gubben - Dotard (old man).

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Feeling better =)

The sinusitis is almost gone now, but I still need to use the steroid nasal spray twice a day. I'm not happy about that, but I rather take the spray then having sinusitis.

The snow is melting down day by day, but here's still plenty. The sun has showed up now and then too. The other day I washed my car. Haven't been able to do that since October last year!!!!!!! The temps has been below zero almost every day since then. I've always washed my cars "by hand". Only once I have used a car wash, but I didn't liked the result, so never again!

Now I'm longing for the spring, and these small lovely beatuties. Perhaps they are under the snow cover, who knows?

 Snowdrops from last year.

Tintin and Bertil.

These two guys are doing their best to help the snow to melt in the sun ;-)

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News about my Amaryllis

This is how my beautiful Amaryllis looks like today!

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Third Time!

This lovely Amaryllis is blooming for the 3rd time. We got it from our friends Anna and Lennart in November last year when they where here visiting us.
First time there were two stalks with four flowers on each. Second time there were one stalk with four flowers, and this time there’s SIX flowers on one stalk.
Really amazing!

Thank you Anna and Lennart =)

Autumn is here!

The autumn is really here now. Today it's raining here in the norten parts of Skåne. The temps are about +47° F (+8°C). The leaves are falling off the trees, but of coures not all at the same time.
I've been out and bundled them up more then once already. The last of the falling leaves I'll leave on the ground. They are good nourishment for the grass for next spring and summer season.

HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!

Selling our house

I took this picture this summer when we (Berti and I) had the opportunity to get up flying with our friend Erik.
Our house is the one up to the right. It must have been some point with that flip that day because now I can use my pictures to show you how the house is located and how it looks from above. Click at the picture and it will enlarge.
I've tried to convince Bertil for a long time now that if we should be able to sell our house we have to engage an estate agency, and finally he has agreed.

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The Summer isn't over yet!

Hopefully the summer is staying for some time yet. I was in my mother-in-law's former garden yesterday and took some pictures. Unfortunately the new owner isn't interested in keeping the flowerbeds in order, but there are still some "goodies" left.

A bee sitting on a Blue Globe Thistle.

A lovely Clematis Jackmani on the stable/barn wall.

Clematis Jackmani

Forgott its name.
Anna told me, but the name is gone from my head!!!!

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Anna said...
It's a Delphinium grandiflorum or "Riddarsporre/Praktriddarsporre" in swedish (and "Delphinium" in english -I think ;-)What a cute little bumblebee...

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Up, up and away!

Last Wednesday, 24th, Bertil and I got the great honour to join with our friend Erik on an air crossing in his small Cessna 172 from 1950. It was actually one really, really pleasant experience. I had fortunately my camera with me, and I took approximately 285 pictures and here is a small selection from them.

Click on the pics and they will enlarge =) Cessna 172 from 1950. Fully restored.

Mölle at the Kullahalvön (Kulla peninsula).

Kullahalvön.

The lighthouse at Hallandsväderö.

Hallandsväderö.

Hovshallar.

Båstad with its harbour and famous and well known tennis court.

The tiny village of Kattvik north of Båstad where Richard Gere had a fling with a local some years ago with paparazzi in every bush.

The small village Torekov with its harbour. You are able to see the small island Hallandsväderö up in the left corner of this picture.

And this is my home. It's the house up to the right with the flat roof.

This is Västra Karup where my mother and my parents-in-law are living at block of rental apartments for senior citizen.

This is Grevie were the big company Lindab is located.

What a wonderful trip we had!

Thank you Erik :)

Dog and Worm have got a New Friend

Yes, my small unfailing garden friends have got a new little doggy friend. Don’t know her name. (I’ve decided that it’s a girl).
Can you please help me and my two “old” garden friends, Dog and Worm, to give her a nice name?
The Funny Little man (Gubben) is home with his creator (Anna) to be restored. He needs some new painting in his face. If I remembered it right, I think I told him that he would go on a long spa –and beauty vacation ;-)

What am I going to name Dog and Worm's new girl friend?

A lovely summer bouquet.

Here’s some new garden “art”. I got the birds from my mother as a birthday gift, and the Death Cap I’ve bought my self.

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Beautiful Rhododendron i Helsingborg.

My sister Mia and I were in Helsingborg last Thursday. On Our way to the clinic where Mia is getting treatment for her carpal tunnel syndrome in her both hands we walked by this wonderful Rhododendron bushes.

Mia and the Rhododendrons in Hallbergs Trappor.

A piece of Kärnan in Helsingborg.

HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!