Weather
Sunset over Gubbängen
Sunset over Gubbängen Continue reading
Mid-April Surprise
Mid-April snow. I’m ready for spring, if it every comes. Continue reading
Gubbängen T-bana
Gubbängen T-bana Continue reading
New Year’s snow in Louisville
Snow has come with the new year in Louisville Continue reading
I survived the Swedish winter
It is 7:30 in the evening and it’s still light outside. It’s not “warm” but it’s nice enough to have the windows open and to be laying in bed after … Continue reading
The Sun and the Ground in the Same Picture!
The darkness of the Swedish winter is well-documented, but one can also go for months in Stockholm without actually setting foot on the ground. Continue reading
Victoria Theatre
Victoria Theatre at Götgatan on Stockholm’s Södermalm, New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2010.
The Devil Wears Merona
There’s a popular saying in Sweden. “Det finns inga dåliga väder, bara dåliga kläder,” which, although it doesn’t rhyme in English, means, “There is no bad weather, only bad clothes.” … Continue reading
Welcome to Sweden
A couple Tuesdays ago, I visited Skatteverket (the Swedish tax office) to apply for my personnummer. The personnummer is the Swedish equivalent of an American Social Security number. In Sweden, … Continue reading
The Immigrant
A lot of what makes for good writing is having the time to write. After spending most of 2009 in Sweden, I’ve been back in America since December. Since being … Continue reading
The Idea of North
It’s beginning to get cold in Sweden. The first snow of the season, however fleeting, already happened a couple weeks ago. Earlier this month, daylight hours in Stockholm passed below … Continue reading
The Sky
The sky is a monster of gases that blankets the planet and protects us from the harsh nothingness of outer space. As an added bonus to this monumental task, it … Continue reading
This is weird. It’s dark at night.
Recently when I’ve been out late, I’ve noticed something strange. The sky has been getting really dark at night, for several hours at a time. This hasn’t happened for a … Continue reading
Still more pictures of the sky
Unbelievable, I know. No one would ever expect to see a picture of the Swedish sky on this web site. Nonetheless, here are still more pictures of the sky. 4 … Continue reading
More pictures of the sky
May 31, 12:31 am May 24, 6:48 pm (two photos stitched together) June 3, 9:56 pm June 3, 9:56 pm June 16, 12:59 am June 25, 12:41 am June 28, … Continue reading
City on Water (with a dirty mouth)
Saturday afternoon I went for a long walk and relaxed in the park to recover from Midsommar festivities. During my sunshiny day, I enjoyed some Reese’s peanut butter cups my … Continue reading
Where the Action Is
Despite a long weekend of rain, tens of thousands turned out Friday and Saturday for the Where The Action Is music festival in Stockholm. The rain was punishing and relentless. … Continue reading
Friday morning around 1:00 AM
The daylight and the colors and shapes in the sky are continuing to fascinate me (as is the dark, blurry line in my camera’s lens). These images are from late … Continue reading
Midnight
I think there’s an old saying, “Pictures are sometimes more valuable than descriptions involving many words.” I think that’s how it goes. This picture was taken from the balcony the … Continue reading
When does the sun go down around here?
I would like to say that I’m starting to get used to the surplus hours of daylight in Stockholm, but I can’t. I still find it so amazing. During the … Continue reading
Dark skies over Gamla Stan
A few images of dark clouds moving in over Gamla Stan (The Old Town) last week. The gold-tipped building is Stockholm City Hall (Stadshuset), completed in 1923. You can see … Continue reading
Jordgubbar
Jordgubbar is the word for “strawberries.” I thought they looked pretty nice in this photo from a recent hilltop picnic on Södermalm. Here are a few more sunny pictures from … Continue reading
Cherry blossoms at Kungsträdgården
Here are a few scenes of cherry blossoms in bloom at Kungsträdgården (the King’s Tree Garden), a long open plaza lined with trees in central Stockholm. The garden dates back … Continue reading
It’s beginning!
Long days where the sun never goes down are the type of thing that you just don’t believe until you see them. It’s something that people from Kentucky read about … Continue reading
The great outdoors
When the weather changes, the weather changes everything. I love being outside on a pretty day and so do so many other people here in Sweden. I recently had a … Continue reading
Balkongdagensparty, design, music, old newspapers
Last night there was a dagens party on the balcony at Iida and Erik’s in Haninge. Dagens, as you may know from an earlier episode, is a delicious beverage made … Continue reading
Beautiful doesn’t even come close
At the risk of jinxing it, the weather the past few days has been simply gorgeous. We broke double-digit temperatures (Celcius, of course) which means it has been up in … Continue reading
Refrigerator poetry
Today’s arrangement of the nine words I took off the dead refrigerator a couple weeks ago: Beautiful electric blood loverHungry womanRefrigerator faceWhy