From my trip home...

from Ronald Reagan National Airport, Washington.

See the album here.

Photos from my USA-trip...

White House gate.

Haven't had time until now writing. The trip has been filled with so much. But here, here, here, here and here are the albums with the pictures in reverse chronological order.

Trip to USA...

I am on my way making a 9 day long trip to USA... This became quite suddenly decided. Landing on the east coast, sightseeing there a little, and then going by car to the mid west (?), hopefully seeing a lot of the local culture. It's my first visit there, so this is really exciting. Got a very sweet invitation...

I look forward to this, but I have "fjärilar i magen" (translated exactly: "butterflies in my stomach"!), not least for the long flight over the the Atlantic Sea with what it means for me...

Let's see if I have time blogging during this period...

Travelling home...

the Alvastra Monastery.

the Vadstena Abbey Church.

On my way home I made stops at the ruins of the Alvastra Monastery and Vadstena Abbey Church... I have been in seven of Sweden's counties today!! :-) Started my journey this morning in Skåne and passed Halland (a miss!!! Was speaking in my mobile phone and missed the road north! And it isn't the easiest thing to just go back on a motor high way!), passed Småland, Östergötland, Närke, Västmanland and Dalarna... I have been driving 1500 km on this trip south since Monday...

Even more vacation activities..

"What's she shouting at??"

Yesterday we went bathing in the sea... But Ajax and I started the morning (after I had saved some photos, been to the store to buy some food etc.) with some relaxation in the garden, lying there reading, writing, just relaxing... And we (the husband in the house and I) finished it with watching "Midsomer Murders", which H., the husband in the house, had recorded. While A., the wife in the house, took a jogging-tour! Totally exhausted after so much fresh air and bathing (I bathed in fact!!!) H. and I almost fell asleep there at the TV! :-) While A., the wife in the house came home with blushing cheeks (looking very healthy:-)) after HER jogging-tour, alert and with a lot of energy! She has another daily rhythm than we! :-) Sleeping 5-6 hours longer in the morning than we do! So it wasn't only we who were lazy! I hope! :-)

More vacation activities...

in the morning I visited a cousin just outside Lund and we took a walk at the seashore there.

the entrance to Kulturen i Lund (more pictures here). The Lund Cathedral.

Yesterday we (A. and I) visited Kulturen i Lund and the Lund Cathedral (also see here).

I have labeled this posting with relaxation, but I don't know if it has been relaxation, at least not for my feet, walking in shoes not made for long or lots of walks!! :-)

Vacation activities...

pictures from the journey here.

more pictures here.

From 700 km journey by car and a walk in the botanic garden in Lund...

A long walk...

Trees, trees, trees, and wood, wood, wood!! And some other pictures... I had an unintended or involuntary 70 minutes walk at after 14:30 (2:30 PM)...

Some of the pictures are from a charcoal hut here. Fairly newly built.

Watch this site CSPCC - Website of The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children – Empathic Parenting, it seems interesting!!! I have just started discovering it!

See this reader's letter at Miller's site "Systemic failure, cover-up, and under-reporting of abuse."

Easter boogie-woogie...

April-weather in March. It's so nice spring is on its way and the days are turning longer. I have vacation - again! I long for when I can sit on my balcony again. I have fixed up here and bought Easter-flowers. Made lunch after a trip to the grocery store.

I got the band above in an email from a friend. They played a boogie-woogie, an Easter boogie-woogie? A bit enervating after a while! :-) Or after a rather short while to be really honest, even if I laughed when I saw it. They sounded in the email!! But not here. Thank goodness! :-)

In the evening: Now new baked bread soon, still warm! Fixed up here... Nice...