daily photo theme day: ode to smaller things

text & photo: Pia K

One of the best things of living in a fair, green city by the water is the ample opportunity to stumble over, or hear of through the leafage, new places of wild strawberries (smultronställen). Such a place I found last year, and this photo captures the loveliness of that moment, that place, this city and what’s best of it in at least three ways.

Just the fact than you can enjoy a decent lunch (chanterelle soup and homemade bread) in a seemingly rural and peaceful place, when this café is actually situated just below the busy Västerbron (The Western Bridge), is amazing in its very self.

The other very visible thing can be found in the small details, all around us, everywhere. Here illustrated by an uninvited, but welcomed, lunch companion. Who eagerly, more or less patiently, awaited some left over bread.

And then we have that light, the summer light, that reminiscence of the glorious summer past, that shines through the leafage… This perfect moment - eternalised with a little help from a small, ingenious friend named camera - makes it easy to visualise that the best things in life can simply be found in the smaller things that surround us.

With hopes of and wishes for many such perfect moments in the year to come, Happy New 2008!

others on stockholm ode västerbron

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andra om stockholm nyår smultron

Smedsuddsvägen (map) 24 May 2007

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