changing,changing,changing...all the time. Nature never allows us to rest unchallenged by new developments. Most of the snow has now gone from the lake surface..transformed. 

Past 200,000

Well, now we went over the 200,000 count

for website hits on the

www.Ragnhild-Monsen.com  website.

 

Thats a first since the website started in 1998

 

 

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Website visits/hits

There seems to be a lot of interest in my wife's art

judging by the activity at her website these past 2

weeks - which coincides with her exhibition in Galleri

Infra, Stockholm.

 

Visits and hits are 200% more than the average for

the previous year - and we are about to have a record

for a month and for a year, with hits about to top

200,000 for the year possibly today but certainly

within the next 24 hours!

 

In case you wish to visit, the url's are:

 

www.ragnhild-monsen.com

or

www.tapestry-art.net

 

 

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Snow Go

After 24 hours of temperatures above freezing all

the snow is starting to melt and to go - as one would

expect.

The frozen lake has a covering of water from the rain

we have had and is 'groaning' at night I presume as

the molecules expand through thawing.

Winters in Sweden  - or the area of our home -

are so interesting.

 

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Stockholm Exhibition

Oh, I think I like this Qumana :)

 

The reason I was not blogging last week

was because my wife (http://www.ragnhild-monsen.com )

was holding a major exhibition of her art work

 - she has been a professional artist for over

 30 years - at Galleri Infra, Infra City,Stockholm

http://www.galleriinfra.com

 

So we had a marvellous stay at the Scandic Infra

City hotel and a hard working week erecting a

very large amount of very large tapestries and

textile art.

 

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utstallning Stockholm-exhibition Stockholm 

Stockholm utstallning - Stockholm exhibition 

Stockhol ustallning - Stockholm exhibition 

Qumana and backups BLOGS

Hmmmm.. I must be getting nerdish :):)

 

This is a trial of an offline Blog editor which has many

very nice features to help us write our blogs...especially

offline.http://www.qumana.com

I also solved another little problem today with my blogging.

Over the 5 years I've been blogging I've had 2 harddisk

crashes...one caused by an (at the time) undetected virus

which finally managed to physically destroy a new 80 gig

HDD.

This gave me something of a headache or two, as a lot

of my blog backups also disappeared. Today I grabbed

a free opensource website copier that also copies BLOGS.

Beautifully :):)

http://www.httrack.com

 

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Did he get Salami on Rye? Huh! I'm green with envy!?!!! 

Was that Salami on Rye? 

Back Home

"Oh, the joy:
to live on this land of lusciousness
where civilisations sounds have surrendered
to the near-neolithic undulations
that are the rhythms of unmetered moments,
bathing the mind with the tranquility of timelessness".

copywright: Geoff Groom

I may not be blogging next week because we will be here....Stockholm :) 

a bit of sunbathing in the snow? 

Now the nights are below -22C yet welcome visitors still keep calling 

It must be tough in the forest with temperatures down to below -20C 

Some of the old buildings in the area are just not surviving this winter: the roof collapsed on this old house under the weight of the snow 

SNOWFLAKE NUMBERS
" It's been calculated that in a volume of snow two feet square by ten inches deep there are
roughly one million flakes.
Multiply that by the millions of square miles that are covered by snow each year (nearly one
fourth of the earth's land surface), and then multiply that by the billions of winters that have
occurred since the dawn of time, and it's obvious we're talking unimaginable googols of
flakes. Some of these are surely repeats.

On the other hand, a single snow crystal contains perhaps 100 million molecules, which
can be arranged in a gigajillion different ways".

source:http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_392.html

Last week the locals told me we'd had the most snow for 20 years,since which time we've had another 50 cms :) And now it's stopped snowing and gone to -17C !!! 

It has now been snowing non-stop for 3 days and it is so awesome 

Snow is soooo amazing. Here's some 

Images of snowcrystals published by kind permission of:
Kenneth G. Libbrecht. Professor of Physics and Physics
Executive Officer,Caltech
If you want to see more - or learn about snow crystals-go to
http://www.snowcrystals.com

Incredible shapes and forms are found in snowflakes 

Well, it thawed af few days, then foze again...and now it's snowing again.Soooo 

Hmmm..it's my weekend for encountering the name Lundqvist :)
First I have watched a charming Swedish film (though without english
subtitles so occasionally I was a little lost in the dialogue) called
Kim Novak badade aldrig i Geneserets Sjo - which I think means
Kim Novak never bathed in Geneseret lake. Amongst many fine actors
in this film was an Anton Lundqvist. Pretty good actor.

Henrik Lundqvist was the Swedish Ice Hockey team's goalie
and, as I understand it, was instrumental in helping the
Swedish team to collect the Gold medal at Turin.
Both these 'exposures to Swedish life' have been most enjoyable
experiences :):)

Yes, it was a Bullfinch. Yes, it was a Greenfinch.
My thanks to STEFAN at http://www.birds.se for his speedy help in confirmation.
Incidentally, http://www.birds.se is a fantastic website resource..in 10 different
languages...about Birds.

Two days of above freezing temperatures and everything starts to change rapidly.The lake, frozen only for a couple of weeks this winter (instead of 3 months) shows signs of the thaw 

For those who've asked, this is what I mean by 'frostflowers' 

What's the fascination with the birds?
Well, a little under 2 years ago I was given a Fuji S5000 digital camera as a present. It's my
3rd digicam.But this camera is such a joy to use that I have taken over 8,000 pictures in
21 months.

So, at the moment I am sitting in the 'living room' of my home helping my wife with some
of her artwork involving the metal. You can see more about her artist life over the past
30+ years at:
http://www.ragnhild-monsen.com
She has a large solo exhibition coming up in March in Stockholm at Galleri Infra.

As I am sitting there working, the birds are coming to feed and some of them I don't
remember ever having seen before. So I get a little occupied trying to get some
good photos...hehehe

I also have a 'spiritual blog' at http://ito.blogspot.com if you have any interest.

There is a 'companion' website to this "Sweden Experience" blog which can be found at
http://lo.2ya.com

Bohemian Waxwing ? One called last week, now there are about 7 or 8 of them visiting 

I have no idea what this is...maybe a Greenfinch?!? 

I think this is a Bullfinch ?!? 

This blog is now RE-ACTIVATED and
will run mostly as a picture/comment blog
about my life in Sweden.

The 'spiritual walk blog' (ito.blogspot.com)
is still active

Another winter Vestre Silen view 

The staggering ability of nature to create beauty 

Lake view in winter_ Vestre Silen,Dalsland 

Winter moonlight on a frosty night 

This Blog has now been replaced by a new blog at:

http://ito.blogspot.com