Lillejul 2018

Stockholm modern skyline

Lady in red - shot from the hip

View from the dog park

Oh, what a boring walk

View from the dog park

The cow house field where dogs may run freely

Got 700.000 £ ? If so, they are building your new apartment over there

Superintending the Kings Street

Stockholm Town Hall

View from the dog park

Always the last drops of coffee

In the gym

Still in the gym

Soon finished in the gym

Dog show - breeder Pernilla and Cayenne

Dog show, winning kennel class, Kerstin behind Cayenne

Spring is in the air - and on the ground

Best friends

Wild life in the city

Homing pigeons in the air .......

...... and here they live

Spring ghost dinner - friends on the officers mess balcony

Ghost dinner - old officers feel young again

Ghost dinner - starter taken while standing

Ghost dinner - who can resist a cognac with the coffee?

Ghost breakfast - we who slept over in the barracks.
Me, the mess director and a former regimental commander.

Common coot (Fulica atra)

Kerstin and Cayenne in rough terrain

Jay (Garrulus glandarius)

Pigeons

Cherry trees in Kings Garden

One single line with antique trams is left in Stockholm but now they are building new lines an trams

I photograph it every time I pass by. It used to be "The Elk Drugstore" but now it is a bed shop.

Volkswagen meeting on the Cowhouse Field

Only one man in the picture - strategically placed

On an old air defense shield (~ 1920)

This year's first visit to the summer house.
What the hell has happened to the left of the road?
Fortunately, the house is far to the right.

Remember the sauce you got with the elk steak? Poisonous morels but oh so delicate.
(Not so poisonous after drying in the sun)

........ at last

No, I am not up there. I was though, 23 years ago.

Dog show again, Pernilla and Cayenne

The judge gives her judgment

Just another walk with thee (old psalm I believe)

Barnacle goose(Branta leucopsis)

First of the year bath

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Blue tit (Parus caeruleus) dead, unfortunately, while the eggs are cold

Digging a latrine dump to last some years

One of these days I'll sanitize here

Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)

Summer dog show

Cayennes brother, Pernilla, Saari

Here we go again

Freedom under surveillance (GPS)

Homing pigeons again - photographing them is a challenge

In, or on, the nest

Another Stockholm skyline

1½ km from central Stockholm

At first I thought it was Cayenne

A rotten birch at the parking had to come down

Midsummer with strong wind

We couldn't grill out in the open for the wind.
Luckily I have a portable grill so we could grill in the outhouse entrance.

Fun in the gazebo

Oh yes, I'm still fond of Bushmills

The midsummer cake

Karin writes a poem in the guestbook

After a few days of midsummer celebration, the calm falls again over the neighborhood

Goosander (Mergus merganser)

Seagull (Larus canus)

Kerstin scrubbing carpets

Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Back in town on Bellevue top café

Kerstin and Cayenne in the street where we live

The centaur on Observatory Hill

Another creature on Observatory Hill

Back in Dalarna visiting friends

Three generations visiting us and fishing

Prepared for fisherman's lunch

Village flea market

Visiting friends in town Falun

Here comes our friends, the tree feller and his wife

And there is the spruce that has to come down

Here we go

First a felling cut .......

..... and then the final cut

Well done !

After hard work, sanitation is required

You may count the rings (more than 100)

I just couldn't help photographing

Celebrating granddaughter Tilda 20 years old
(Brother Ludvig, Tilda, boyfriend)

Tildas grandfather, grandmother, mother

Summer house neighbours visiting

Time to take care of the firewood.
I needed sledgehammer and wedge for the largest pieces of wood

Then the splitting machine did the job

It took several hours

Evening by the lake

Here comes my friend, collegue and mess director (telling Cayenne to shut up)

Friends Karin and Lars once again - always very welcome

They are not allowed nowdays but there still are some in the neighbouring waters.
So this was only a test.
The pestilence took most of the original swedish river crayfish.
Planted american signal crayfish are immune and invasive and thet carry the pestilence
(and they are not so tasty as the old ones).

Summerstorm but .......

......... no problem

Old friend Gösta (90 y o) collecting potatoes for a brotherly lunch

Back in Stockholm (again)
The copper tents, built for one of our mad kings some 230 years ago

Someone stayed over night in the Cowhouse Field

Well, did you have the money? Your new flat is almost ready.

Back in paradise. I just liked the colours.

Jumping the crayfish creek just for fun

An old boat house

Our kitchen garden

Early morning

Lion, lionhunter, liondog in Kings Garden - Stockholm

"Come!"

At the Copper Tents. Some people can't get inough many ridgebacks.
(They are breeders)

We met daughter Malin and her boyfriend

Yet another walk

A harmful tick. They can give you brain disease among other illnesses.

Another evening by the lake

Contemplating

Zeroing

Photoshopping a very small wooden sculpture jumping up from the cold lake

The elk again

We went squirrel hunting but all we got was scolding

Wonder why they were posing there and then

View from the dog park.
A new tower in town.

There will never be to many dog pictures

Sometimes black and white has more feeling

The Swedish Parliament

Another b&w

Kerstin and her friend and neighbour across the street are going downtown

Obedience exercise

Kennel meeting.
Breeder Pernilla with Cayenne and Kerstin in the middle.
Cayennes daughter pulling hard to the right.

Stop brawling fucking idiots!

Grilling sausages

Drinking some mulled wine

The Ghost Brigades fiftieth anniversary

Celebrating the 50 years with music

We, who hang in for breakfast day 2
(sleeping overnight in the barracks as usual)

Celebrating daughter Malin, 50 years, in a noisy restaurant

Ludvig, Tilda

Grandson Ludvig

Some members of the Tuesday Club had a nice lunch With Peter and his wife

It's December and time for "Little Christmas"

Get your snaps on the grand piano

Get your food from the pool table

Talk, talk, talk and snaps songs. Get more food. Talk, laugh, don't forget to eat.

The two youngest .......

....... close the doors ......

Perfect !

A short brake while the sun sets

A short brake ........

....... before the rice porridge with milk, sugar and cinnamon

And then coffee, cognac and talk, talk ......

...... and songs .....

...... and more songs (some of them religious)

Of course: sleeping over night in the barracks and a heavy breakfast in the mess.
(The snaps glasses were put there just for fun)

Helping the mess director tidying the mess

Back in Stockholm. Meeting in the dog park at 2000 hours as usual.

Ritual on the way home from the dog park. Every dog gets two treats each.

A couple of wonderful skis in our regimental museum were used
by a battalion commander 1940-1944.
His name was Ströman.