Someone celebrates their 60th birthday today and starts off with a champagne and sushi breakfast (courtesy of Anna Maija and Unnolv)

Full moon at midnight,Vestre Silen,Gallnas Dalsland

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Oh, incidentally, if you like pictures of this area you can find quite a

 few at the sister website on the galleries link page:

http://www.sweden-experience.se/sweden-experience_004.htm

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Full moon rising over Vestre Silen Lake,Gallnas,Dalsland,Sweden

ps.Blogger and Picasa are so fantastic now that if you click on these images you get them full size  :)

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As you can see, we are heading into yet more rainy weather. Wow. It sure has rained a lot this month.
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There is now a Gallery of pictures from Nikolay's visit - click HERE

Midsummer Moon

The above photo was taken at around 01-10 am on Midsummer day. A full moon is rising in an almost clear sky.

You can see something of the importance of Midsummer celebrations (generally ranked as the most important of the year here in Sweden) by going here

http://www.thelocal.se/7665/20080619/

A new gallery of Gallnas flower pictures

with downloadable zip file if you want copies

Yesterday was FLAG DAY (National Day) here in Sweden and it's probably been one of the hotest in recent years. Phew!!! It's hot :):)

ROGNAN konfirmasjon
During these past days we have travelled up to Rognan in Saltdal,Norway.
We had the deep joy of attending the konfirmasjon of our nephew Henrik, who
really is a fantastic young guy. So he was the main reason that we could all come together as a family.
Here is a gallery of a few shots from Rognan,Bodo,Orje and then some more Gallnas photos showing the scenery as at today.

go HERE for the gallery

Lilac starting in Gallnas

Stormy weather - but the rain is much needed

Ah,but how I love the Spring

tasty new vegetables

long sunny days

delicious forest walks.................

clicking on the image should take you to a Spring slide show from Gallnas

(if you want to view without the special effects,click on gallery view)

Snowing......in May? So there I am reading the online Swedish newspaper in English and I'm thinking...well it's up North I suppose it's understandable.

and that's the report above.... and this is what's happening whilst I am reading it at 10-05 am today. It's started snowing here...massive big flakes. In fact a real snowstorm!

It won't stick (it's +5C) but still...... isn't nature amazing?

Nothing to do with Sweden - but,hey,we even know about YouTube out here in the forest,hehehe check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEacTZmd7I

CHERY BLOSSOM and Tulips
Cherry blossom moon after an exceptional sunny day and a clear calm quiet night

and tulips closed for the night

SPRUNG SPRING