The old town runestone

It is damaged, but you can read it. ᚦᚬᚱ[..]ᛅᛁᚾ ᛫ ᛅᚢᚴ ᛫ ᚠᚱᛅᚤᚴᚢᚾ ᛫ ᚦᛅᚢ[...] ᛫ ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ ᛫ ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ [...] ᛋᚢᚾ ᛋᛁᚾ It dates back 1000 years. Translated it reads Torsten and Frögunn had the stone raised after their son. It was removed from the wall and cleaned up in 1937. It was tricky to photograph on this day as a young guide who knew nothing about it told the group he was with that he knew nothing about it, and they were all standing around it.

Timothy Atkins

Tim sells his Stockholm paintings at Stortorget almost every day. His studio is close by at Kindstugatan. If you stop and look in the shop window you can see miniature versions of Tim, in his yellow shirt, climbing up and down miniature ladders with miniature paintings! My brothers' wife bought two paintings from him when she was here two years ago.

A fun train?

Strandvägen on a sunny Summewr day.

Pride Dress

The Stockholm Pride Parade took place last weekend. I missed it, but was in town to check out another event that started as the Pride event ended. And while snapping photos from that thing I did spot a few people dressed for the Pride Parade, and this is one of them.

Three Hats

Out walking at Strandvägen when I noticed the three hats on the bench. Photos needed to be taken. I took the second photo first, then walked out to a pier with a good view over the water and the Skeppsholmen island, before taking the first photo in the post while walking back.

Trying out new shades

I was walking along Stora Nygatan in the old town when I spotted a few colorful heartshaped sunglasses outside a shop so I stopped for a photo. Just behind me was this girl, waiting for me to finish so that she could try them on.

Norrlands Guld

Norrlands Guld were three people I think when they started with street art a few decades ago. Could be down to one guy now. Snapped this at Farstaväggen a while back. Met him briefly here a year ago. He was with a friend, painting. I took a few quick snaps while chatting. Had my sunglasses on, a big no-no in my book. Three days later, going through the photos, I realized that I had shot with manual focus because I had taken a panorama earlier, so my Norrlands Guld photos from that day were so much out of focus that I deleted them.

The Doc

A very funny moment with The Doc. After stopping the traffic in his unique way, so that the Royal Guards could march to the Palace, a bus driver at Skeppsbron honked his horn. The Segway police officer was not amused. He rolled over and promptly told the driver to shut up which everyone within a mile could hear. Another bus driver, here for the first time, asked in German what was going on. The Doc who clearly does not speak German still answered in some sort of German which was fun. Oh, and he got his nickname 20 years ago when arriving at a crime scene, finding a dead person, he called it in, and of course the guy was not very dead at all. Since a few years he works from the new police station in the old town. He knows everyone and everyone knows him.

It's just a facade

From a recent walk along Hornsgatan on Södermalm where I focused my camera on doors and windows and then ended with this facade photo. Might show you the doors and windows in a later post.

Svartkål

Always a lot of flowers and plants to look at while at the King's park. Here we have Svartkål. Lacinato kale. Cavolo nero.

The man in the window

Watching the world go by in the old town at Brända tomten. I gave him a nod, he smiled and gave me a nod back. He is looking towards a famous square where today you fill find a popular restaurant and big tree as well as two disapperaring alleyways. If you look at the wikipedia photos he is in the building you can see in the black and white photo.

Girl with a pearl earring

And an iPhone. The shopkeeper in Gamla stan tried to lure me in, thinking I was a tourist.

Los Conejos

Bad Bunny was in town recently. For two sold out concerts at the Strawberry Arena in Solna. So Stockholm filled up with 100 000 Los Conejos. Which was fun, of course. I took a walk trying to find them.

Arty

There's often some new temporary artwork to look at while walking down the relatively short Sergelgatan street in Stockholm. Sometimes because a store is closed for renovation and they put something up in the window for me to photograph.

Boat life

Many old boats moored along the very posh Strandvägen this Summer. Many of which I have never seen there before. Always fun to look at people working or not working so I took a few such photos