The New Commuter Station

The rebuilt commuter station in Tungelsta is starting to look a bit like the illustrations I saw at the Trafikverket web site before the work began. You can now bike under the tunnel, something that will come in handy as they closed the rail-road crossing two years ago. I shot this with the full frame camera, standing on stairs that are not yet in use. It took nine photos using the nifty fifty lens I then cropped the finished panorama to look like normal photo.

Ford 5-Window Coupe

Another sign of Spring. A 1937 Ford in Västerhaninge yesterday. Not sure, but it could be Håkan who also owns a legendary Hot Rod.

Lost Rings

Last August an elderly woman, (91 years old), was enjoying a Summer day at the beach here at Årsta Havsbad when she realised that she had lost her engagement and wedding rings, while swimming close to the pier that you can see here. The rings are from 1946 and 1948. The family looked for them in the water but they couldn't find the rings. If you do find them please contact the police at 114 14.

After The Paintball

For a few year you could play paintball at this property along Årstahavsbadsvägen in Österhaninge. It was quite popular, never tried it myself but I often saw people here. Now it looks like the paintball people have moved on to a new location in another forest in Jordbro and pretty much just left this one to itself. So I decided to have a closer look. You would probably have to be the worlds best real estate broker to sell this property now. Although I could give them a little help. It is very close to the beach and even closer to a couple of golf courses. If you are heading out to the archipelago the ferry port is also close. There's a lot of forest to walk in if you like that sort of thing. The closest malls are also just a short drive away. Any takers?

Sixteen Recent Snaps

Funny weather of late. These are some snaps from around Haninge taken this month. Yellow crocus found at home. Roof tiles at the construction site in Lillgården in Tungelsta. Snowdrops at Krigslida. Ice fishing at the Lower Lake at the Rudan nature reserve. Family fun out on the ice at the Upper Lake. Ice bracelet found near the old tree. New greenhouse at the Nödesta farm. Say after me: Hasselhängen. The new commuter station in Tungelsta. A bird! Snow on a chair. Zooming in on a house at Kvarnvägen in Tungelsta, photo taken from the hill at Bergdalen, (where I live). Two skiers at Rudan. More crocuses from home. Construction workers at Lillgården. People working out at the outdoor gym at Rudan.

Ice Fishing

I counted seven ice fishers on the frozen Lower Lake during my visit last Sunday. This guy was sitting further out on the lake compared to the others, maybe he knew something the others didn't.

Winter at the lakes

Two recent photos from the Upper Lake at the Rudan nature reserve in Handen. I don't know exactly how thick the ice was, but thick enough for ice skating around the frozen lake as proven here. Parking the bike out on the ice like that is a bit unusual. Looks like the family on the second photo are preparing for both ice skating and Ice fishing, although if he wants to catch any fish he should head over to the Lower lake.

The Pier in March

The pier in March. The lake is still frozen. I spotted quite a few ice fishers out on the ice during my promenade here yesterday.

That Old Tree

I took this photo of the old three on Thursday. It was a very foggy day. Chances are that this was the last Winter photo this season,(of the tree I mean), but you can never be too sure when it comes to the weather.

Wagon dumped in the stream

The old barn at Nödesta, known locally as Guatemala collapsed a few Winters ago. It was around 200 years old. I liked the old barn and I have taken a few photos of it over the years. The farmer Janne, didn't own the land and the municipality didn't want to help him out with the old buildings, so it had to happen I guess. A company called Rivners removed what was left of the barn a couple of years later, but they left the stuff that had been left inside the barn. Then, last year Janne bought the farm from the municipality, but that doesn't really explain why he decided to dump one of the wagons in the nearby stream.

Beaver silhouette

My third and last photo from the mound along Stavsvägen in Tungelsta. When the mound is gone it will be replaced with a new park that will follow the stream. The water you see here is part of a future water storage dam. There will also be a number of allotment gardens just here. In the background you can see the rebuilt commuter station as well as the old station house plus a few private homes, the former post office, today a restaurant and also the roof of the brick church that dates back to 1974. I didn't notice the beaver silhouette until I opened the photo in Photoshop and now I cant unsee it, hence the title.

Winter Construction

After shooting the It's Still Winter photo that I posted yesterday I turned around 180 degrees to shoot this photo of the construction site at Lillgården in Tungelsta.

It's Still Winter

Winter came back. Just like that. Total chaos in the traffic of course. Accidents everywhere. This was the scene at Mulsta in Tungelsta earlier today. Mulsta is an old farm. The same family, the Anderson's have lived and worked there for three hundred years.

Stolen&Dumped

A stolen and dumped car at the recycling station in Tungelsta.

Visible

Out walking at Välsta recently, looking for any signs of Spring. Nothing to report, but I snapped this from a little hill. I'm sure the white house at Lidavägen 25 will be invisible from here in a month or two.

Fikarast

Update from Brf Blicken, part of the Haningeterrassen project. It will be a 18 storey apartment building when they are done. Construction work stopped a while back because of a delivery problem, but now they are back working again, although it looks like one worker had just been on a coffee break. Or Fikarast as we say over here.

Settling in

Back in October of last year I noticed a crappy looking caravan parked near the Rudan nature reserve in Jordbro. I suspected that someone was going to move in there for good, and that it would be very messy there soon, so I emailed the municipality about it. They answered the following day and informed me that they would sort it out by sending in one of their fearful parking attendants. Pretty sure that didn't work, this was the scene there earlier this week. So I mailed them again with the updated photo and they responded, claiming that their parking attendant had been unable to locate the caravan!

First crocus of the year

Here it is. The first crocus of the year. Found it yesterday afternoon. Always the first sign of Spring so I won't even mentioned that it was snowed over this morning!

Dumped caravan

Lots of dumped caravans popping up around Stockholm in the last few years. This one can be admired at the household waste recycling centre near the retirement home in Tungelsta. Yours for the taking I guess.

Black and white in color

Theme Day. Black and White in color. Decided to go with an archival photo for this one. This is a birch forest at Välsta. I often walk here and I am very good at scaring away the local wildlife when I do.