Somehow I believe that this vessel is not totally abandoned – only for the moment. An owner will return some day. Hope is valuable to us all!
Thoughts
En på Miljonen – One in a Million
Två och en halv dag i Östersund med Jämtländsk gästfrihet av varmaste slag. Maria och Yarri bjöd både på sig själva och på det allra godaste i jämtländsk mat. Ren och älg, röding och västerbottenpaj… med mera. Frukost med hjortronsylt (egenhändigt plockade bär och hemgjord sylt) varje dag. Maria är också en mästare på såser. Nätterna tillbringades i en prinsessan – på – ärtensäng. Det går helt enkelt inte att beskriva mina dagar där med något annat än himmelska. Maria är En på Miljonen av värme och omtänksamhet. Tack än en gång, Maria! Jag vet inte hur jag ska kunna återgälda detta, men jag ska göra mitt bästa!
Maria öppnade sitt hem och vackre Yarri satt gärna hos mig på soffan och myste…Han vet att ta vara på livets goda den mannen. (Yarri – du är precis den man du är på bloggen du!) Jag blev guidad till allt vackert som finns att se både nära och långt bort. Vi började med Frösön och vackra Frösö kyrka (började byggas på 1100-talet), Wilhelm Peterson -Bergers ”Sommarhagen” och hans grav. Peterson-Bergers “Frösö Blomster” är i mitt tycke det vackraste en svensk kompositör någonsin har gjort.
Kyrkor är ett måste, men alla hanns inte med eftersom de vissa dagar inte är öppna och andra dagar stänger redan tre. Men, man ska inte hasta. Bättre att njuta grundligt i stunden av den man besöker. Stora kyrkan i Östersund och fina Hackås kyrka, den enda i sitt slag i Jämtland, är pärlor som jag hoppas få chansen att besöka en annan gång. Men, först vill jag ju visa Maria lite av vad Skåne kan erbjuda! Få en fin presentation, från Marias blogg, av Hackås kyrka här.
Fler poster kommer att handla om mitt besök i Marias Jämtland. Men, för att verkligen se och få veta mer om detta vackra landskap måste du gå till en äkta jämtska – besök MariaYarri!
Two and a half day in Östersund with the warmest hospitality I have ever met. Maria is One in a Million of warmheartedness. Maria and Yarri treated me with the most excellent, typically Jämtländska food: Reindeer, moose, char and Västerbotten pie. Cloudberry jam every day… (In the southern part of Sweden, where I live, these berries are very expensive.) Of course Maria picks the berries herself and makes the jam as well… My days in Östersund cannot be described as anything but heavenly. Thank you again, Maria!
Maria (and Yarri) guided me to so many beautiful spots in the vicinity – and far away – that I was afraid she might get tired of driving me around…but she insisted…We both like churches, so Frösö church (12th C) was our first choice. My favorite Swedish composer, Wilhelm Peterson – Berger, was buried here. His most famous compositions are “Flowers of Frösö” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Peterson-Berger
Unfortunately the churches are not open every day, so the eldest and most special church in Jämtland, beautiful Hackås, and the church in Östersund, were not visited – hopefully I will get the chance another time. It’s better to enjoy what you see, slowly and thoroughly. But first, I hope to show Maria something of Skåne too! Visit Hackås from Maria’s blog here.
More posts will be about my visit to Maria’s Jämtland – but the best way to get to know this part of Sweden is to visit MariaYarri!
By the entrance to Frösö church
View from the church, the mountains and Storsjön
”To fight for the Light, yes, that is the highest”
the belfry from 1754 with Birgittaklockan (Bridget of Sweden bell)
After a fire 1898 the church got its new interior look in 1930
Tha altar
The first organ was built in 1857 by Johan Gustaf Ek, but it has been rebuilt several times.
Maria talade mycket om den jämtländska blå färgen – och visst är den där – den genomgående blå tonen. Hela registret.
Maria talked about the typical blue colour of Jämtland – and it is there, in almost every picture – the beautiful blue.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color White
Cee’s challenge is to find the colour White. Click for more entries!
I have chosen three different whites – A ceiling in the beautiful home of a friend of mine, a delicate flower from the Pyreneés and a lovely horse from Jämtland ( photo taken this weekend).
Travel theme: Work
Work – what do I think of when I think of working? At Where’s My Backpack ? Ailsa wants us to show how we think. For me, I guess much of it is about hard work with your hands, but also work together with animals. We will never manage without their help, even if technology is taking over…other values are at stake here…
Fixing my roof
Cutting grass
Training birds
Cutting Tibetan carpets
Making incence
Amritsar and the Golden Temple
Sitting Under My Tree just now is a guest post on the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Welcome!
This is 2014. When will they ever learn?
BBC News – Korea: rare family reunions take place.
Today it was on TV. North and South Koreans meet after many years apart. These meetings are so restricted and often cancelled, which means that many (most) of the 70 000 on the waiting list will never get the chance. Many of them are more than 80 years old.
My husband visited North Korea in 2012 on the 100 years’ jubileé of Kim Il Sung. The man they treat as their God. Ordinary people live in hell here. They starve and infiltrate and are sent to death or to camps never to return. A devastating experience, from which he was glad to escape in one piece. He and his company where never allowed to meet ordinary people, never allowed to walk unguarded, and only allowed to take photos when they were permitted.
At the border the guards confiscated memory cards or emptied them. My husband managed to hide one in his clothes, so the pictures are here…showing parades and city buildings. Everything is grey. I’m glad I didn’t join him on this trip.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Orange
Orange is beautiful and oranges are tasty. My choices for this challenge are some of my favourite oranges…
New life and new lives
Omplantering som alltid vecka 8. I år blev jag tvungen att ta ner den ena av de stora monsterorna – den hade blivit alltför hög och ohanterlig. En gång tidigare har jag tagit ner båda två. Båda togs som sticklingar för ca 38 år sedan. Då stod de på min gamla arbetsplats i en stor samplantering.Nu finns inte min gamla arbetsplats längre. Eftersom jag träffade några av mina gamla arbetskamrater i helgen tog jag med stambitar med vidhängande blad till dem alla – ett levande minne av svunna tider.
I övrigt några av de orkideer som blommar just nu – och förstås min ryska begonia…
As usual my pot plants get some new soil and some grooming this week in February. But, this year I had to take down one of the big Monstera Deliciosas – it had grown to the ceiling. This weekend I happened to have dinner with some of my old friends who worked together a long time ago in the same building (it does not exist any more) where I got those Monsteras as cuttings, some 38 years ago…So, now I decided to divide my Monstera into big enough pieces to plant, and then hand them out to my friends. A living memory from days gone by.
Of course I have to show some of the orchids starting now – mostly phalaenopsis. In some weeks there will hopefully be more of them – two cattleyas are budding and more phalaenopsis.
My yellow phalaenopsis
This one was brought from Madeira many years ago
The spotted begonia
Another phalaenopsis
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Empty
I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It’s very mystical.
Jean Dujardin
For more empty spaces – go to Ese here!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
There is only one choice – or two. My greatest Treasures are my children. Nothing compares to them in my life. So much fun and happy times, so much laughter and so much Love. Thank you for being here and being you.
Leya 
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