Signs of spring?

A bit early for cats in the Cherrytrees, they usually appears in April :)

Sun and snow all day long

The Mignon Ducks really likes that sun is coming back and give them some piece of grass to go through and search for something interesting. Then next moment snow is falling again...

Cloud Atlas

I saw the film today with my two oldest. It's really an ephic piece of motion picture that thrills your mind. Since we have the some sort of feeling for good and bad we all liked it... a lot.

Just by chance

On a Thursday evening in March with -7 below, a quiet and calm evening, got this idea of waking up the sleeping blog.

Summertime

Soft light shades horizon in afternoon warmth.
Wind has calmed down and let smell from sea drift along shores.
All birds make a carpet of sound.

You feel that summer feeling once again :)

Happy Lion

This could be old and well known but I like it. Feel the resemblance from a child when you have been away and they just want to have a hug.

Oldest presented the clip for me and I miss her a lot since she moved to study at a University far away. We are good friends who enjoy discussing all kinds of topics and also watching Dr Who together :)

I haven't got many friends at all. Hahaha and it's my own fault. Simply because I'm such an odd fellow that likes loneliness and haven't got this social need for beeing with other peoples. I just like to be by my own and in my own thoughts.. in the woods :)

A birds view

So funny that the birds are using the pedestrian crossing.
Have to wait before I pass :)

Thoughts from under a tree

These are my own Cherry trees


So it's spring again and the blossom trees are full of flowers. Back up in north where I grew up we had none of these flower trees in spring.. hmm. Yes we had “Hägg” I don't know the English word for it got this big white blossoms that smells so.. and then a black berry that was so bitter you couldn't eat. None of these “Hägg” trees lives here in the south and I long for that smell from one of these big trees in spring.

In a way here in the south there is less smell from everything, perhaps in north you live more intense and have to use more fragrances to search for bees to breed... Perhaps we all from the north have that extra something :)

Master of postpone

Hahaha! I am an expert on putting up things to do next day..

One of my favourite things to do as late as possible is this Tax declaration.

Usually I spend the evening on the very last day to calculate and write down all the figures and then drive without any concern on speed limits.. to that special mailbox for Tax declaration who close at midnight and put the envelope inside just at 24:00. The guys who close it use to say “hey you are the last one this evening”

Nowadays we have this fantastic internet where you could do it all online and don't have to search for certain forms in advance. This evening was the very last day and I started loosely without anything prepaired at seven and now have sent it all in including two companies declaration hahaha! Such a relief to have done this :)

Now It's only to wait for the tax authority to start asking questions..

Beauty of spring

So soft the flower filled meadow looks, like a carpet of flowers.

You get tempted to flow in and lay down, watching the sky, listen to the birds and feel the fragrances :)

History is always present

Couldn't take the picture with my glasses on so I maybe look a bit uncool :)


History is so interesting. The house in the background of this picture have a special history and so it is where ever you go. I have always had this interest in all things that can be traced into history. The substance is endless although I have a special feeling for modern history, specially things that happened in the years your parents lived.

My father who has been dead for so many years always wondered what happened to a Tugboat he worked on and today with internet always online I could spell the same question at a forum and got this strict answer of her history, that this boat lays at the bottom. Sunk in the same bay where she got her name from.

Matching colors

Morning sun, empty roads, time is no limit

Forza il Nostro!

Smell from soil and all this sounds from birds, spring is in the air!

I found out today that I can only buy red or partly red motorcycles.. It's a pity :)

Ice is gone

Feels both good and in a way sad when the ice on the lakes are gone, but a new spring is definitely coming.

Got out in this bike that I bought late last autumn just by chance. When this model originally come up at the market in 1984 it was in a period when I moved my interest from bikes to sailing boats and it was nothing I wanted to have.

But it starred with Tom Cruise in Top Gun..

I remember I saw the film alone in a small movie theater in Luleå when it had moved from the big screens. I wanted just to have seen it back in 1986 and it was as I expected filled with so many errors, besides that lump story, my concern was then on flight technicallities and manouvers. I went out and thought that I would newer see another Hollywood film again.. but somehow I did :)

Star in the film was in a way this Kawasaki.. The same model I now have in my hands.

And by chance? I bought at a Second Hand shop this winter a leather jacket quite similar to the one Tom Cruise had in that film and when hurdling out at this curwy way today in that jacket I got this song in my head.. hahaha but I wore a helmet :)

Still waiting for spring

Took a stroll in the woods with youngest, my soul mate:)

We found these frozen waterfalls, soo intriguing.



Like in a fairytale where the time has stopped.



An odd tree, really got this interest in form of trees..



Youngest are always happy in the woods, must have got it from father :)



And near home we found this mark from a Wolf, I really would have liked to see a glimps of one of them.

As years go by I cast my mind

In the very last gleam of sun

last day of the year

snow reveals traces from wild animals

who doesn't count any years at all

life is rich for all living

just relax and enjoy

now it's time to contemplate

and turn another page

tomorrow sun will go up again on yet another year

a Happy new year :)

Always an oddball

Just realise that I've posted a picture from the same place. Exept it was another bike now resting in a dark corner, another year passed to memory lane and another blog that has quietly fallen into sleep.

Shadows run longer in the evening and sun is getting that golden yellow light. You have that smells from a warm dry day. Everything is calm and the birdsong has almost ended.

Some time to contemplate, admiring the shape and shine of this oddball of a motorcycle. Making up loose plans for tomorrow. It will be Saturday a day off with nothing special on the agenda.

Think I take a trip by chance to some town not too far away. Search for some cosy park, rest in the shadow of the trees with an ice cream and watch occasional girls behind my shades :-)

Quiet evening

Summer evenings are filled with different smells and feelings in the air.

Smells from the warm soil and a mixture of different flowers, sounds from all that birdsong until the sun has completely dropped.

You feel It is Summer.

Midsummer today

Thought that I should do something special today like taking a spin nude in the morning, when everyone was asleep. On my Monkeybike :-)

Lament for our old lady

Fresh fish is so tasty!

Old little madam has fallen asleep for the last time.

This extraordinary cat who followed with the house and got around 26 years of living, that would be like a man who lived until 150?

Special in a way that she was always so kind to people, loving mother to her kittens and also this very skilled hunter.

When kittens grew up she would go out and hunt something that would get their minds into real food. She used to drag home big black rats the same size as her.. and when the kittens where horrified, she brought home squirrel instead and there is not many cats that can chase a squirrel in the trees. She has sometimes brought home hare..

One time when she had kittens and lying in a basket with them in the hall. A women with a puppy dog come and visited. She put up her ears and eyes above the wall and stared at the dog, then jumped off to the floor and went right to the dog and gave it a real claw on the nose, dog screamed and hide under a bench and the cat walked slowly without looking back to the basket with her kittens. The dog was a Mastiff, as a puppy about twice the size of her self.

In her last years she lost her hearing and also this hunting that was the fun of her life. So she became a very happy fisher instead. When you come home with some fish in the bowl she would directly fish them up and eat them. Always so happy about these fishing.

She was always so clever and used to observe if a car went away it would perhaps come back with some fish.. and this last day of her life she followed to the car that was going away and sat down patiently to wait, if it would come back with some fish.

When the car came back she had laid down and fallen into the endless sleep perhaps dreaming of fish.

Childrens put her in a box with some towels to make it cosy, fresh flowers and a fish next to her.. Oldest has buried her in some secret place in the woods, she says she is going to build a little pyramid with stones above before she reveals where..