A blue door in a red walled wooden building on Brännö. I took this photo on Easter Sunday – you can see the Påskfjädrar (Easter feathers) decorating the hedge to the right. Another photo from the recent archives. … Continue readingBrännö blue door
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Pat the Monster
Pat the Monster – I don’t really know if this monster is called Pat, but it should be! Hand patting the monsterous head of a chain-saw cut dinosaur sculpture in the children’s playground of the Botanical gardens.
(I had intended today’s photo to be of Gothenburg’s central library, newly re-opened after a major extension and refurbishment, but I’m still confined indoors by a bad cold and pollen allergy, so this is a photo I took a week ago.)
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Magpie exploring
A magpie exploring a rubbish heap by the car park outside the southern entrace to the Liseberg funfair. I think it’s looking for attractive scraps to use in its nest – I feel a certain sense of affinity. Isn’t this blog a little like a magepie’s collection of bits and pieces. I took several photos of this magpie and its mate picking over this pile of grit and rubbish. … Continue readingMagpie exploring
Golden sunset
A golden sunset, the top of a flagstaff and the facade of a block of flats in Rambergstan. The air is heavy with birch pollen. This spring we’ve had pollen counts higher than for any spring in the last 20 years – and don’t I know it. … Continue readingGolden sunset
The End of Easter
Easter twigs and coloured feathers in a public rubbish bin mark the end of Easter. … Continue readingThe End of Easter
Punk at Påsk
Påsk is the Swedish for Easter and gives me the opportunity to alliterate. Punk at Påsk because my sister-in-law was playing bass in Tijuana Suicide, who were the warm-up bandContinue readingPunk at Påsk
Blossoming in the chuchyard
This is probably another flowering cherry like yesterday’s photo, but this is blossoming in the churchyard – specifically the cemetary called Östra kyrkogård (Eastern churchyard). Photo taken about midday on Easter Sunday 20th April. The temperature had risen by 7 degrees since the day before. … Continue readingBlossoming in the chuchyard