A frozen Bellman at First Croft

 

Finally a two-centimeter snow cover

 

Chainsaw art, The girl and the dog

 

Saint John's church

 

Roslags Street, Sunday morning coming down

 

Oden Street towards Svea Road

The City Library

 

Military Academy Karlberg campus. Three new cadet hotels. Now 300 cadets can be accommodated in single rooms. The officer training lasts for three years.

The Northern Towers.
Architectural quality? No, more rape on the urban environment.

 

The dock worker.
By Meunier 1897 for the Stockholm Exhibition.

 

Here comes bus 53 that takes me to Central Station. After waiting for one hour, the broken locomotive has been replaced and the trip goes to Falun.

 

After all participants have shown their covid passports, the Little Christmas party in the officers' mess can begin.

 

 

As usual, the two youngest (not so young anymore) leave the dining room to close the sliding doors after a some exercises

After a break, we have traditional Christmas porridge (rice porridge) with milk, sugar and cinnamon.
For a porridge dram, I prefer Bitter Drops (wormwood brandy).

 

In the same sofa corner as the last 50 years, except last year when covid put obstacles in the way

 

Without any self-criticism at all, we sing a number of Christmas songs and songs from the Little Christmas spex of yesteryears.

 

One morning at the sea front. From the rising morning fog, the shuttle boat breaks out on a course towards the southern pier of the sunlit Large Islet

 

My friend Anders states that there is a thin film of ice between the Sheriff's Islet and the mainland. The snow has thawed away, but today the hoarfrost adorns bridges and vegetation.

Christmas Eve

Malin, Ludvig and Tilda have Christmas dinner with grandma & grandpa

 

My electronic Christmas card for my dog park friends

 

Christmas morning. My birthday cream cake with raspberries for maybe the fortieth time. Kerstin is an expert on cream cake.

 

The Hops Garden. Carl v Linnaeus. The Royal Library
Carl von Linné (1707 – 1778) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms (in Latin). He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".

 

Bitter Drops (wormwood brandy)
Fortified with just a little honey
A drink for gods