Yellow Oak

Oak tree turning yellow at Skogsekebyvägen in Tungelsta. The road dates back to the Viking era.

Winter in Sweden

This picturesque property at Skogsekeby in Tungelsta is known as Sveaborg. Svea is the female personification of Sweden.

Truck Bed Rock Festival

That would be the English name of the Flakrocken festival that was held at Skogsekeby in Tungelsta on Saturday. It was the fourth year in the row that a truck bed was turned into a stage. Ten bands played. I watched five of them. On the top photo is Peter Waljus, the lead singer of the band Highride. The weather was perfect. Warm and sunny during the day and the evening wasnt too bad either.

A summer house

I think yesterday was the warmest day of the year. Grace in Perth will of course laugh when I say that it was very warm (25C), when I decided to go for a little photo promenade around Tungelsta. This is Hagstugan at Skogs Ekeby. Three hundred years ago the foreman at the farm lived here. Today it is a summer house. For a much colder and winter like view of this cottage press here.

Winter Sky

Had you walked down this road at Skogsekeby in Tungelsta a few years ago you would have seen the greenhouses at Rosenborg. The first gardener at Rosenborg was Hjalmar Pettersson. He later sold the business to a man called Englund. After that the Stockhaus family took over the plant nursery. The last gardener to work here was Mårten Strandell, who today lives with his family in the red house. Today a number of new houses are been built here and the area is known as Ekeby Villakvarter. The two houses you see in this photo were built two years ago. I have a photo of that here.

Skywatch Friday.

A long long time ago...

...three brothers lived at a farm at Tuna in Tungelsta. This is the Skogs Ekeby runestone in Tungelsta. The inscription reads: Vigils and Gerhjälm had this stone made after their brother Gudbjörn -björn cut the stone. The road here, Skogsekebyvägen, dates back to the Viking Age, as does of course the runestone itself. The three brothers lived at a farm at Tuna one thousand years ago. Something I always think about whenever I walk by here. Over the centuries the runestone has been moved around. The original position was probably on a field nearby Tuna. A little over a century ago in 1886 the runestone was found at a bridge where it had been used as foundation! The reason for that is most likely that the people who lived here a few hundred years after the inscription was made didnt understand the runic alphabet.

A Winter Scene

On my walks around Tungelsta I sometimes stop for a photo at Sveaborg, which is the name of this property at Skogsekeby. I showed you a great winter photo of Sveaborg a little over three years ago and this is how it looked a couple of days ago.

A White Winter Sky

We have had a white winter sky in Haninge for the last few days. And with that I mean a snow fall or two. Which makes for good photo opportunities. This is a place called Sveaborg. It's located next to the runestone I showed you yesterday. The property was built back in the 1920ths when Josef and Henny Emanuelsson started a greenhouse business here. Later the Roos family bought the plant nursery and they built a new home closer to the greenhouses that are just down the road. This is one of those places that I often photograph, and on this occasion it was the Swedish flag that brought some extra color to this beautiful scene and I decided it would be perfect for Skywatch Friday.

Skogsekeby Runestone

There are 23 known runestones from the Viking Era in Haninge. This is the Skogsekeby runestone at Skolvägen in Tungelsta. The inscription reads: Vigils and Gerhjälm had this stone raised in memory after their brother Gudbjörn- björn cut the stone.

Or as it's written on the stone: in uik-l(s) : a-- kiRhimR : litu : ri(s)- stin : iftiR : burþur sen : kuþbiarn : --biarn : hiuk : stin.

The three brothers Gudbjörn, Virgils och Gerhjälm all lived at Tuna in Tungelsta one thousand years ago. Every time I walk by a runestone I start to think about how it must have been to live here back then.

A Home with a Difference

I always try to document any changes in the landscape, and we have seen a lot of that in Haninge over the last few years. Many of the new housing areas are filled with prefabricated houses, where your new home is up in two days, and then it's just a matter of weeks or sometimes months to fix the interior, depending on whether you do it yourself or leave it to the professionals. But there are exceptions, and this is one of them. From Skogsekeby in Tungelsta, where a plant nursery and a horse farm has closed in recent time and where many new houses have been built over the last two years or so. This looks like a house with a difference. Construction seems to be slow at the moment, could be the cold weather I guess. I don't think I have seen this type of house before.

View From a Hill

The crappy weather continues. So I will continue to digg into my Canon archive. Back in November of 2004 I decided to climb up to the top of the Limpberget hill at Skogsekeby here in Tungelsta. It's one of the highest points around here, and on a good day equipped with a pair of binoculars you should be able to get a decent view of the surroundings. What you see here are a few buildings along the Tornbergavägen road just below the hill. On that day four years ago I did shoot a panorama, and if you feel like it, you can see it here.

Skogs-Ekeby

For a long time a building at this property at Skolvägen was used as storage for the brewery products made by a man called Falk. Back then the family that lived here was called Johansson and one of the daughters was in school with my mother. Today it's a private residence. A few months ago when I was out on a photo promenade I met the owner, and we chatted for a bit about the big changes that this area has seen over the last few years. He had seen some of my photos so I asked him if I could take his portrait for the 100 Strangers Project that I was busy with at the time. He said thanks, but no thanks. Today he has a few new neighbours as three new houses have been built on both sides of the Skolvägen road.

Summer vs. Winter

A diptych showing Summer and Winter at Skogsekeby in Tungelsta.


Original Summer version from June 2005. And the Winter version from March 2008.

Hagstugan

I have shown you this place a couple of times before but not from this angle so here it is again. I walked past the old Hagstugan the other day, and as always I lifted the camera and took a photo. The cottage is 300 years old and today used as a summer house. My last photo is from November. Back in the old days the cottage was known as a Rättarbostad and belonged to the Skogs Ekeby estate.

On The Road Again

I never put away my bike for the winter as most cyclists do. Yesterday we had a warm spring like day, a bit windy but the weather was good enough to fill the roads with motorcycles and cyclists. I stopped at Skogsekeby in Tungelsta and only had to wait for one minute before the first cyclist came pedalling around the corner. Bigger photo.

Santa's Place

Bigger photo.

Did you ever wonder where Santa lives? Here's the answer. In Tungelsta of course. Just take Skolvägen up to Skogs Ekeby Road. When you see the runestone turn to the right and you're there.

Skogsekeby Road 45

New areas are developed and houses are popping up everywhere these days. Some look really really awful, but I like this one. It's on Skogsekebyvägen. A two laned road that is used by the locals as a shortcut between Tungelsta Road and Södertälje Road. But don't tell anyone ok? There's a new area housing complex under construction not far away from here called Solsäter. I was going to post a photo from there but nothing had happend since my last visit so I give you this typical swedish home instead.

View from "Mount Tungelsta"

Standing on the top of "Mount Tungelsta" or Limpberget. The climb took ten minutes. Best to visit in the morning before the sun climbs to high in the sky, or in the evening It's very green here now, I like that! The road you can see is Skogsekebyvägen.

Typical Tungelsta House

This house is on Skogsekebyvägen 36 in Tungelsta.A few meters to the left you can see this runestone. There's many houses like this one around Tungelsta. And in the whole of Sweden. The paint used here is Falurödfärg. We have used that paint here for the last 400 years or so. You can learn more HERE.

A Runestone

There are lots of ancient remains around Tungelsta. A few grave fields and other graves. Mostly from the Iron Age and Bronze Age. There are also quite a few runestones. This one stands at the intersection School Road/Skogsekeby Road. The inscription reads: Vigils and Gerhjälm had this stone made after their brother Gudhjälm -björn cut the stone.