Thursday, February 29, 2024
Tree in Mist
My last two visits to the old tree looks like this, so to spice things up a bit I took a photo from a different angle. Makes it look even spookier, I think. The meteorologists at SMHI informed us that according to their ways of looking at things, Spring arrived to Stockholm earlier in the week. As I am typing this it is maybe 3C from a gray sky, so I will most likely dress up in full Winter uniform when I jump on the bike in a bit.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Window shopping
I have a new photo project. Sort of. I often enter Stockholm via a street called Götgatan on Södermalm. Very busy. The northern end of it is hilly. It is known as Götgatsbacken. Filled with small shops. Boutiques. Restaurants. Pubs. Book stores. Underground station. A mall. And a lot of people. Everyone visiting Stockholm seems to end up here at least one time. This is where I have photographed the busking opera singers a few times. Anywho, a couple of days ago I decided to start documenting it more closely. This is a lamp store called MässingMäster. They also have a repair service and a few very photogenic windows.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Year of the Dragon
Monday, February 26, 2024
A February visit to the beach
Every time I bike to and from Stockholm I pass nearby the little beach, Hökarängsbadet at Lake Drevviken. And every now and then I will do a detour to see what is happening. The beach is a green lawn during the Summer and often very crowded. On this visit, the entire lawn was ice. How the guy standing next to his bike made it there, I do not know. I was wearing my icebugs, but still had to be careful where I stepped. The young girl in the second photo were preparing to go skating on the still frozen lake, but they took their time, so I decided to leave without getting a snap of her out on the ice.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Munkbroleden
Two people out running at Munkbroleden in the Old Town in Stockholm. The boardwalk from where I shot this opened up after a lengthy re-construction last year. Part of the never ending building site mess that is Slussen.There are a number of benches here from where you have a good view over the water and parts of Söder Mälarstrand. In the background buildings at Gamla stan, including the Pub/Nightclub Engelen. It opened in the late 1960s. I was a frequent guest there back in my early 20s. A great place for live music.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Classic Stockholm Views
Views from the top of Skinnarviksberget at Södermalm in Stockholm. In the top photo you can see the old ship Mälardrottningen, moored at Riddarholmen with the church in the background. Quite a few kings buried in there, btw. The second church tower in that photo is the newly renovated Storkyrkan in the old town, next to the Royal Palace. Two other churches in the next photo. Maria church, and Katarina, named after the Burroughs. In the middle, the Mosebacke water tower. Stockholm City Hall in the third photo, where once a year the Nobel Prize is awarded to scientists. In the fourth photo, classic buildings along Norr Mälarstrand on Kungsholmen. And in the fifth and final photo of the day. Rådhuset also on Kungsholmen, and in the background Norra tornen at Torsgatan in Vasastan.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Amaryllis
Thursday, February 22, 2024
The Path of Seven Wells
The 888-meter-long path at the Woodland Cemetery, yesterday. Sju brunnars stig in Swedish. I took this photo at the Chapel of Resurrection. The long path ends, or starts, if you like at Almhöjden, The Meditation Hill. This was only my second visit to Skogskyrkogården since mid-November. I took a 66 kilometer bike ride in the rain and fog. 2C. Refreshing is one word to describe it I guess.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Street art
I parked and locked the eBike at the top of the shortest street in Stockholm. Yttersta tvärgränd on Södermalm. From there I continued on foot up to the top of a hill known as Skinnarviksberget. You are never alone up there, as it is a popular spot for both locals and tourists year round. We all come there for the view over Riddarfjärden, but I will not show you that today. Instead, I give some great street art from the absolute highest point of said hill. To me, it looks like paintings of August Strindberg, who definitely spent some time up here. Next, we see young Fredrika Bremer, the famous feminist from Haninge. I can't place the third face though, but I like her blue eyes looking straight at the observer.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Monday, February 19, 2024
Swan Lake
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Lake Drevviken
The first weekend forecast that I read promised sunny weather and around 5C for Saturday. In the end, the sun stayed away for most of the time that I was out and about. And it was no more than 2C. But I still managed 75 kilometers on the eBike. Roughly 22 kilometers in, I stopped at the circular pier at Lake Drevviken. It rained all day Friday, so much of the snow is gone. But the ice was still thick enough for a few ice skaters out on the lake. You can check the quality of the ice online, it is updated daily, so I hope everyone was okay. The building on the top photo is famous. It was the first ever terrace house built in Sweden. It dates back to the 1950s. The architect was Axel Kandell.
Etiketter:
ice skating,
lake,
winter
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Winter fog
A group of teenagers from a nearby school, walking and ice skating on the foggy and still frozen Upper Lake at the Rudan nature reserve. I can't remember ever having to do that while a student in Handen a few eons ago, but it is probably memorable on a day like this. I have shown you this spot before, in the Summer time this is a popular beach, often filled with sunbathers.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Polar bear
What we call an isbjörn. A direct translation to English would be Ice bear. But Polar bear probably sounds better. Spotted at the Rudan nature reserve yesterday on a very foggy day.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Goin' for a Ride
A girl out horseback riding during a snowstorm, (sort of), in Tungelsta. In the background houses at Stavshöjden, a community where pretty much every family are in to horses.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
That Old Tree
I met Jane on my way to the tree yesterday. She was out walking with her three dogs. They can run free here, and I remember first seeing her here back in 2007 when she was here with her friend Annika. Jane told me about a possible wolf sighting in the area. Than can be quite scary if you are a dog owner. Someone had found three roe deer carcasses here in just a week's time. One of them down the path here at Klems kulle, and there was also a wolf sighting at Dalarö. So I guess I will have to go out on a wolf stakeout now!
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Weekend Update
I took this photo two days ago. It was a horrible day. Weather vice. -3C. Not the best weather for a bike ride, but I needed to get out of the house. This is a bus stop at Håga, between Tungelsta and Västerhaninge. There is an industrial park here, a pizzeria and a few houses. And the odd vandals, by the looks of it.
Monday, February 12, 2024
Clearing the walkway
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Waiting for the train
I usually carry an umbrella with me. Sort of, I have a folding umbrella in my bicycle bag. But on this day I was walking, just like this woman with the Ving umbrella, waiting for the commuter train at the Krigslida platform. She probably wishes she could fly South for the remainder of this long and cold Winter.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
A Winter promenade
Walking over open fields this time of the year can be a chilly affair. Especially if it is snowing. This person out walking a dog was a few minutes ahead of me yesterday on the path between the old tree and Klems kulle.
Friday, February 09, 2024
Still Winter
A few photos from a morning promenade earlier in the week. I decided to take the boring way as I sometimes call it. Following the railroad south for a kilometer or so past a few houses, a big stable and a few old barns. This path is unofficial and there were no tracks in the snow so I was the first one to walk there that day. The house in the top photo is new. Just a couple of years ago I photographed an abandoned building on that same property so I guess that is progress.
Thursday, February 08, 2024
Kvarteret sjögläntan
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Our Home
One of several paintings done by local kids in Jordbro, a suburb with mostly immigrants and quite a lot of gang issues. I went to school here a few eons ago. My school was demolished a few years ago after also serving as a cultural center for many years. A new school had of course already been built, and on the property where my old school used to be you will today find new apartment buildings.
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
Winter Picnic
I have visited the lakes at Rudan three days in a row now. Normally that only happens during the Summer. When I photographed the skiers on Saturday, it was 7C and quite nice. On Sunday it was a little colder, maybe 3C. And yesterday when I snapped this photo of the Viking couple out on a picnic near the Lower Lake it was -3C, but they claimed it was warm enough. Looks like the woman was clever enough to bring some warm coffee with her. Hubby had to do with a Fanta.
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