Saturday, 31 January 2009

Nacreous

Like mother of pearl these high altitude ice crystal clouds light up the evening sky.
I was going through my archives looking for pictures of skyscapes after being in contact with an artist friend of mine Helena Schüssel, when I came across these photographs which I took a while back of "nacreous clouds". I haven't seen any this season, but they are always a spectacular sight.
You can read more about them here.

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Sunday, 25 January 2009

Winter Scenery

Lorienne and I have both rediscovered cross country skiing this winter and we're making good use of the local ski track near our house. It's hard to beat the scenery when there is new snow on a sunny day.

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Sunday, 18 January 2009

Real Food

On Saturday the 17th of January (yesterday) our daughter Rhiannon was exactly 4 months old and to celebrate this she tried her first ever "real" food: Mashed potatoes.
She wasn't quite sure what to think of it.

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Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Right Now

It was Mark Twain who said: "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
We live on credit and we have lived on credit for a long time now. I'm not talking about bank loans, but the other much larger credit that we all share. We owe the world.
For example: If you make a fire to warm yourself, do you also plant a new tree to replace the wood you burned? Probably not. I know I don't. We should, but somehow it becomes someone elses problem although -ultimately- it is up to every single one of us to take responsibility. Don't wait for your governement to do something because it probably won't. Instead give a thought to what actually happens to all those things you throw away, where does it all go? Is there any way you can create less rubbish by shopping differently? Do you really have to use your car as much as you do? If you do, then how do you drive it? And what kind of car do you drive?
I believe we were meant be the gardeners of our world and not the rulers of it.
If you want to change but don't know how then find out! There are two great resources at the bottom of my webpage. Take a little time and click on them to find out what you can do.
Life is always right now, this moment. Don't waste it, do something. Now.

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Saturday, 10 January 2009

Going to Work

On my way to work yesterday I couldn't help taking a photograph of an incredible looking moon. Driving on the narrow winter road with a bright moon lighting up the clouds in front of it was almost surreal and unfortunately the hasty photo doesn't do the experience justice. In fact I tried hard not to turn around to take the photograph, but the photographer in me was very insistent. Lorienne says I don't have to photograph everything, but most of the time I do.
To save some time I decided to do a handbrake turn to get the car pointing in the right direction instead of doing a 97-something point turn. Not my best idea yet. I chickened out of driving fast before pulling the handbrake so the car didn't have enough momentum to make a full turn. I'm glad the snow banks on the side of the road were soft!

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Sunday, 04 January 2009

Family

I didn't take many photographs this holiday and the ones I took were mostly of family since we had very special guests this Christmas:
Lorienne's brother James, his wife Lynda, their youngest son Warrick and his girlfriend Julie came over to visit us all the way from the USA.
A couple of years ago we visited them in Chicago and it felt like we did a hundred different things. When we got together with them here in Sweden we mostly ate and drank more than we usually do with only a couple of other activities thrown in. Still it was great to spend time with family members who we see far too little of.

James with his nephew Henrik and only niece Rhiannon.
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Julie proved to be quite the skeet shooter and struck fear into the rest of us with her lethal scores.
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