happy happy new year

2012 is here.

It has changed us

yet we don´t know how.

How are You?

I´m sorry for not being around.

metamorphosis

Happy harvest
in a small scale
and magnificent
yellow and green

metamorphosis
from seed
to food.

Ariane, I'm thinking of You.

metamorphosis
I'm saying Your name
Your name is in my voice.

two

The rainbows were following us like two cats when you go for a walk.

water

Rain drops in bloom.

Thank You
for the little that is mine
it is not little
it is all I have
it is all
then it is much.

yellow happiness

Happiness is often yellow I think.

This piece of happiness is growing in our tiny pedagogical garden.

I miss You my dear blogfriends I'm not so outspoken these days. But all well and knotting my thoughts in the right direction. I'm still trying to figure out how and why to gather my mind and my wish for expression. Maybe I can find the answer in between the question and the answer. My experience though is that that spot is incredibly huge, I don't know where to start.
Our computer is also really slow nowadays so it's hard for me to catch up with You and comment. You are still in my sphere.

We have summer days here, me and the kids are hanging around and enjoying our selves!

Love xx

pink poppy

I'm looking for the organic road
I'm searching for patterns to show me the way
I'm walking that way
it's a pattern
an organic show
I'm looking

kite

I wish
this was our every day life.

orange

Poppy at sunset.

yellow and grey

When the sun isn't able to shine the ground takes its place for a while. At least here in these yellow fields under the grey sky.

just a minute

So many things has been happening

yet I´m in the same place

surrounding myself with the same surrounding.

a chrysalis

a cycle

a minute

of

a lifetime

a lifetime

in

a minute

I take

a minute

in to

a chrysalis

decades

later 

it

liberates

in

the cycle
of
a lifetime
the minute
pupates

tiny wings

arise

the minute

releases

it

is gone

within

a minute.

the tree

sleeping in a tree.
I listen to them play,
the boy says:
this is life.

detta är livet.

meditate

Backåkra in my heart.
A stone cirkle for meditation out in the fields in honor of Dag Hammarskjöld. A man who was devoted to Life and Peace.
Here and here and here and here some more pics from our visits to these fields.

the self

So I say to my kids go in to freedom now before we go home.
Because in the city there is not much space to be free. As we all know in freedom there is much space to be me. In freedom You can find Your self.

He stands like this for hours.

free

The four of us walk in to this piece of Nature together and again all by our selves.
In this extraordinary still life of movement we are allowed to be introvert.

breath

To reach this spot in the south of Sweden. Breathtaking!
We meet only a few other people that found their way this chill day but loads of birds coming in from south-west making formations in the sky line.

Gosh! The Light here is Light!

forest

Biking on these gentle roads in the heart of a fairy forest.

hike

We took the kiddos the dinos and the bikes for a weekend in the wilderness.

snowdrop

Splendid precious perfect tiny piece of Nature. Just like You and me.

patchwork

Drawing challenge today, patchwork.
I inspired by this challenge to sit by the bed of a dead butterfly.
Visit Helen at objects of whimsy for more inspiration!

cottage love

For some time ago I promised Gina to show my drawings of our allotment garden cottage.
We had a tiny "faluröd" / swedish red cottage on our little allotment ground before and it was falling to pieces. So we decided to build a new one. I saved the door and the two windows with glazing bars. The cottage is the same size plus 1 meter wider for a garden tool store with entrance from a dubbel door on the right. On the left of the door we bought two old windows to have a glass corner, it´s helpful when pre-germinating and also a wonderful wiev out in the garden (thanks Per for the idea). The width of the only room inside is exactly the length of a bed. Perfect for relaxing and to bring a cup of tea. The garden is about 20 meters from our appartment just across the street and then a path in to the allotment area.
It would have been a hard time for me to manage life in an appartment without this garden. (I´m really a forest kind of a person.)
We painted the house with falu black paint. The windows and frames are sun-yellow and gold-ocher linseed oil paint.
Here some pics from the inside. My husbands pics from the allotment garden.

I´m so happy that we conducted this life-affirming project!
A huge Thank You, to the ones involved!