blinded by snow

When some poor bugger loses his glasses in the winter chaos, can you then say he is snow blind?

Fridhemsplan (map) 14 January 2010

cross and rooster

It looks small from this perspective, but the two towers of Högalid Church are 84 meters high. The left tower has a cross on top and is named Olaus Petri after the clergyman, writer, and contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. The right tower is named Ansgar after Saint Ansgar, the Apostle of the North, and has a rooster on top.

Högalid (map) 13 January 2010

icing on the lake

While skating through life, sometimes holding hands is the most important thing.

Övre Rudasjön, Haninge (map) 24 January 2010

meet me by the shell

A young lady patiently waiting in Huddinge commuter train station by a sculpture depicting a shell fossil and a star system. The artist Nils G Stenqvist calls this sculpture Du har tid! ("You've got time!"). Makes sense, doesn't it?

Huddinge station, Huddinge (map) 24 January 2010

T time in Hässelby gård

13 kilometers (and no less than 19 subway stations) west-north-west of the city lies Hässelby gård. This suburban district was created in the fifties, a time of rapid expansion and optimistic city planning. Some of the optimism may have faded but the subway station is still here. The Swedish word for subway is "tunnelbana" - hence the "T" symbol.

Tunnelbana Hässelby gård (map) 23 January 2010

gained some weight, eh?

A large birch tree has a zillion branches and twigs. Given the right (=wrong) weather they will all start accumulating a fair amount of ice. I wonder how much extra weight these trees at the conference center Sjövillan by Lake Norrviken had to carry all of a sudden when humidity rose and temperatures fell.

Rotebergsvägen. Sollentuna (map) 30 December 2009

local glacier

Parking is fun! So entirely absorbing in fact that time just flies and before you know it a month or so has passed. Notice the radio antenna still peeking out of this snow cover.

Gamla Nynäsvägen, Haninge (map) 24 January 2010