Words and Pictures, my blog

Säveån yesterday Saturday, walking along the river

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Snow at last this winter

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Don't get me wrong

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Pretenders

Behind, frontside and inside Göteborgs konstmuseum

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Hey Hey My My Rock N' Roll can never die

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Hey Hey My My Rock N' Roll Is Here To Stay

I listened a lot to him in my first little apartment in the beginning of the 80's

Neil Young was like a friend to me when I was alone at home.

New Year's Day 2012

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Yule 2011

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Today, out eating with family.

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This ToDo list program helps me a lot to be more organised

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http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/todolist2.aspx

Eliminate? But I like to be there. Not urgent, not important. Shame on me.

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mischievous

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Snösa is the lesser goddess who makes the snow wet enough to be turned into snowballs. And she's also a bit mischievous, so if you find yourself being hit by a snowball but can't find the perpetrator, she's likely the one who did it.

http://tobba.deviantart.com/

out and ran into the woods and photographed

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A growling German girl in a Swedish band

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Angela Gossow says she run for 60 minutes every day to be fit enough to growl

My sourdough and the beginning of bread baking

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my son and his paintings

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Spanska flugan, Die spanische Fliege

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Jag och min hustru var i Stockholm den här helgen och såg farsen Zpanska flugan på Chinateatern. På söndagen gjorde vi ett besök på livrustkammaren - i slottet - framförallt för att få äta Gustav Adolfsbakelse, det var ju den sjätte november - dagen då kungen dog 1632 i slaget vid Lützen. Vi gick även på en guidad tur och jag lärde mig att vintage är ett tämligen nytt begrepp som det används idag. Det är från början en vin-term som betecknar årsgångsviner med de bästa druvorna för det aktuella året. Magdalena Ribbing var på museet och sålde böcker och vi pratade med henne om Gustav Adolfsbakelsen som serverades på livrustkammarens kafé.

Vi bodde på Vanadisvägen och jag fotograferade utsikten från hotellrumsfönstret och sedan Stefanskyrkan i Vanadislunden. Och jag kunde inte låta bli att fotografera ett kajakgäng som paddlade i Strömmen framför Norrbro. Och Stockholms stadsbibliotek från observatoriekullen. Biblioteket kallas även för Asplundhuset och det ligger vid korsningen Sveavägen och Odenvägen.

Google translation: Me and my wife was in Stockholm this weekend and saw the farce Zpanska fly at Chinateatern. On Sunday we made a visit to the Armoury - at the castle - mainly to eat Gustav Adolf's cake, it was November 6 - the day when the king died in 1632 at the Battle of Lützen. We also went on a guided tour and I learned that the vintage is a fairly new concept which is used today. It is originally a wine term that denotes årsgångsviner with the best grapes for that year. Magdalena Ribbing was at the museum and sold the books and we talked to her about Gustav Adolf cake that was served in the Royal Armoury Café.

We stayed at Vanadisvägen and I photographed the view from hotel room window, and then Stephen's Church in Vanadislunden. And I could not stop to photograph a kayak team that paddled in the stream in front of North Bridge. And Stockholm Public Library from Observatory Hill. The library is also called the Asplund-building and is located at the junction Sveavägen and Odin Road.

Google Übersetzung: Ich und meine Frau war in Stockholm an diesem Wochenende und sah die farce Spanische Fliege an Chinateatern. Am Sonntag haben wir einen Besuch der Rüstkammer - im Schloss , hauptsächlich auf Gustav Adolfs Kuchen zu essen, es war 6. November - der Tag, als der König starb im Jahre 1632 in der Schlacht von Lützen. Wir gingen auch auf einer geführten Tour und ich habe gelernt, dass vintage der Jahrgang ein relativ neues Konzept, das heute verwendet wird. Es ist ursprünglich ein Begriff, der Weinårsgångsviner mit den besten Trauben für dieses Jahr bezeichnet. Magdalena Ribbing wurde im Museum und verkauft die Bücher, und wir sprachen mit ihr über Gustav Adolf Kuchen, in der Royal Armoury Café serviert wurde.

Wir übernachteten im Vanadisvägen und ich fotografierte die view from hotel room window, und dann Stephanskirche in Vanadislunden. Und ich konnte nicht aufhören zu einer Kajak-Team, das in den Bach vor der North Bridge gepaddelt zu fotografieren. Und Stockholm Public Library von Observatory Hill. Die Bibliothek wird auch als Asplund-Bau und liegt an der Kreuzung Sveavägen und Odin Strasse.

A walk in the park during today's lunch break

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'TAKE BACK THE LUNCH BREAK'

Enlighten, Energize, Elevate, Entertain Yourself

Halloween, soon!!!!!

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GO TO

Waiting for a train to Göteborg, going home

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Stockholm Central Station
The station was built between 1867 and 1871 with Adolf W. Edelsvärd as the architect. Until 1925 the tracks led in to the station but during a renovation 1925-1927 the tracks were moved to the west and the former track hall was converted into a 119 meter long, 28 meter wide and 13 meter high waiting hall. During the renovation the station was extended to the south through the construction of the southern pavilion. Today this part of the station houses a conference facility. Next to the conference facility is the Royal waiting hall where the Royal Family waits when travelling by train.

In 1951 the façade towards Vasagatan was changed and given a more simplified look. In 1958 an underground passage to T-Centralen was opened. WIKIPEDIA

Djurönäset

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My last marathon this year, Göteborg Marathon 2011-10-08

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But I did not have the pleasure to step up on the podium (only in my dreams I can be number one). I don't care, just happy to be a marathon finisher.

The last bowl with our own grown tomatoes for this season

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next week i'm on course at this place, and I will hopefully swim a lot

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Here is the proof, me running Lidingöloppet crosscountry

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Hard work but fun, great fun

Only a few meters left

Mother Theresa

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"I am told God lives in me -- and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul."

People Have the Power, Patti Smith

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I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air verified
and my senses newly opened
and I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it's decreed / the people rule
and vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
and the people have the power

the people have the power

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
and like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
but as I descend in to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you
That the people have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule

And I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
For the people have the power

the people have the power
the people have the power

Start group nine Lidingöloppet just before start

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Soon we will be running 30,3 km cross country. Great fun!!! And a lot of pain.wikipedia:Lidingöloppet is an annual Cross-country running competition held in Lidingö, Sweden. The 30 km run has about 15.000 participants per year and the shorter races several thousands, making it the largest cross-country event in the world . It is held the last weekend of September each year.

Nääs castle

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Nääs Castle is a 17th century mansion near Göteborg, Sweden. It's situated at the lake Sävelången in Västergötland.

In the later half of the 19th century Nääs became world renowned through its Crafts College and for more than 50 years it was regarded as 'Swedens window to the world'.

The mansion Nääs Castle is to be found on the Nääs estate at Sävelången lake in Västergötland, Sweden, east of Floda, Lerums municipality, Skallsjö parish. Nääs estate is widely renowned for its Crafts education during the late 19th century and the early 20th. WIKIPEDIA

The building to left is the north wing house and there was I at a conference.

Photo by Rolf 20110915

The way up to the mansion I have to walk from my room, I don't mind.

Photo by Rolf 20110915

Up there is the guide waiting for us

Photo by Rolf 20110915

A very modern kitchen in the end of 19th century

Photo by Rolf 20110915

Time to go back to my room and sleep

Photo by Rolf 20110915

In a hotel room, in an old house in the countryside

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The view from my room

Photo by Rolf 20110915

With a funny painting on the wall

Photo by Rolf 20110915

The outdoor view of the house

Photo by Rolf 20110915

It's so windy today

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Photo by Rolf 20110913

It’s so windy
Branches coming down
It’s so windy
Leaves are blowing ‘round
It’s so windy
And I just wanna sit here
And watch the wind with you

Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival

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Photo by Rolf 2010

Yesterday in China it was mid-autumn holiday (mid-autumn in lunar calendar). So my monday meeting with colleagues in Beijing was cancelled.

Here where I live it was impossible to see through very heavy clouds and the photo by me here of the full moon is one year old.

BTW. I want to go to Beijing in october and run the Beijing Marathon.

Yes, we have problem with drunk elks this time of year.

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I am building an outdoor stove, ongoing

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Some Mölndal Photos

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In the foreground is E6:
European route E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark. The route ends close to the Norwegian border with Russia. Its length is 3,140 km (1,950 mi).(WIKIPEDIA)

and in the background is Mölndal Hospital which is a part of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Lisbeth Salander, a central character in the "Millennium series" by Stieg Larsson, is treated in Sahlgrenska Hospital in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. (WIKIPEDIA)

The fire station in Mölndal.

This is the church in Mölndal. I have never been inside. I am no longer a member of the church. I believe in the riddle of life and not in priests saying they know the one and only God.

The bus and train station in Mölndal.

A memory of summer 2011

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Photographer: Rolf

But I'm no bird anyone can see
And there's no wind waiting for me
It's just a dream, it's just a dream
To be a bird flying free

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010, see it until Oct 3

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http://svtplay.se/v/2520892/eric_clapton/eric_clapton Only in Sweden

The following artists participated in this unique event to benefit Crossroads Centre Antigua:

Albert Lee, BB King, Bert Jansch, Buddy Guy, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Hubert Sumlin, James Burton, Jeff Beck, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer, Johnny Winter, Jonny Lang, Keb' Mo', Pino Daniele, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sheryl Crow, Susan Tedeschi, Sonny Landreth, Stefan Grossman, Steve Winwood, Vince Gill, Warren Haynes, and ZZ Top.

My two boys grew up so quick

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countdown: 37 days to

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Countdown: 23 days

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to the world's largest cross country race

A pair of shoes

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Today is my name day in Sweden

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Here I am with a new lovely acquaintance at a summer party this summer

The day before the party

Kajsa Grytt, a swedish punk lady Göteborg 20110818

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Everything falls google translated, quite fun

I lie on my sofa
See a movie where all the lovely get each other
But that's just for fun
In reality, all long
After another
All red roses
They wither down to black
All the hard nights
Rinse it off where we had
And the hands that were burned
I have forgotten how they felt

But there is always the same thing
All fall down
Yes there is always the same thing
But I just want more

The greyest of all days
If I see someone light just falls over
He says something
As I never heard before
And he knows just what I need
Once the blood is running out
One more time has never felt like this before

And everything I've learned I have forgotten
Then I give up and climb

But there is always the same thing
All fall down
Yes there is always the same thing
But I just want more

And when we stand there in the world
highest Mountain
And heaven once more has changed color
Since we believe that the wings sprout
Then, we stay so hard on each other
There is nothing we can not
Then we take the step

And there is always the same thing
All fall down
Yes there is always the same thing
But I just want more
Yes there is always the same thing
That all falls down
Yes there is always the same thing
But I just want more

Göteborg today

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For a change of scenery

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We did drive to Läckö Slott, a castle on the shore of lake Vänern.

I met this mermaid inside the castle. In the beginning of the 70´s she was sold to Clayton Hansson, a corn farmer in Iowa for $25000. But she was never accepted by the prudish authorities. And just recently was she saved from deterioration and shipped home to Sweden for restauration and a place in this castle.

You have to drive carefully, not everyone does it:

Toast Skagen

"The Uddevalla Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge crossing Sunninge sound near Uddevalla in the province of Bohuslan on the west coast of Sweden. The bridge was constructed as part of the rerouting of the European route E6 outside Uddevalla, which reduced traffic congestion in the city and shortened traveling distance by 12 kilometers" Wikipedia

A bridge under troubled water

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The day after, the bridge we normally use to walk over the little small creek

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Now it don't rain, it pours

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I have bought myself a self inflatable sleeping pad

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Me and a playful little kitten this evening

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Inside an empty tent, the day before the party

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when the storm is past the ocean is flat again

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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.

A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch. 3; many have thought this meant Keynes supported short terms gains against long term economic performance, but he was actually criticizing the belief that inflation would acceptably control itself without government intervention.

WIKIPEDIA

Now we harvest every day

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Blackcurrant from our garden 2011

A garden I visited yesterday

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My grandma Elna 1904-1981

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Friday evening at Gunnebo castle and outdoor theatre

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The orangery
"An orangery was a building frequently found in the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries and given a classicising architectural form." Wikipedia

A window lifting woman

Three different views from one point yesterday evening

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My bath place, no zoom.

Zoomed

I met this staring elk when I was out walking yesterday evening

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Confusingly, the word elk is used in North America to refer to a different animal, Cervus canadensis, also known as the wapiti which is similar though slightly smaller (the wapiti is the second largest deer species), and behaviorally divergent from the smaller red deer of central and western Europe. Presumably early European explorers in North America called it elk because of its size and presumably because, as men coming from the British Isles they would have had no opportunity to see the difference between a member of the genus Cervus and an animal fitting the description of Alces at home, where the latter was nowhere present in the 17th and 18th century. (Wikipedia)

The word moose is a borrowing from an Algonquian language, probably Narragansett, and according to early sources likely derived from moosu meaning "he strips off".^[3] The word 'moose' first entered English in 1606 from Captain Thomas Hanham's 'Mus' (compare to Abenaki mus), and in 1616 from Captain John Smith's 'Moos', with possible mutual reinforcement in usage. (Wikipedia)

My summer vacation has started

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Flowerflies before the thunderstorm

The rainbow after the thunderstorm

This is evil, Oslo 2011-07-22

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more in common with the 1995 attack on a US federal building in Oklahoma City than the September 11 2001 attacks

Two recent photos

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Yesterday, I walked through Slottsskogen.

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An old police station in the park

Free Kung Fu training

Dancing in the park, but not me. I must train a little bit more.

Slottsskogen (Castle Forest) is a park located in Göteborg.

An awful fountain in Malmö on my way to the Alps this summer

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Malmo is a village in Saunders County, Nebraska, in the United States. The population was 109 at the 2000 census. It is named after the Swedish city of Malmö.

WIKIPEDIA

The bridge to Sweden on my way home from the Alps

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The bridge connects Sweden and Denmark, and it is the longest road and rail bridge in Europe. The Øresund Bridge also connects two major Metropolitan Areas: those of the Danish capital cityof Copenhagen and the major Swedish city of Malmö. Furthermore, the Øresund Bridge connects the road network of Scandinavia with those of Central and Western Europe.

Wikipedia

Göttingen and Gänseliesel on my way home from the Alps

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The Gänseliesel (English: Goose Girl, Goose Lizzy (Liesel as pet name of Elisabeth)) is a fountain which was erected in 1901 in front of the mediaeval town hall of Göttingen, Germany. Although rather small in size, the fountain is the most well-known landmark of the city. Today, it is an essential part of the graduation celebrations for every student who finishes a doctorate at the George August University Göttingen to climb the fountain and to kiss the statue of the goose girl.

Soon after the fountain was erected, newly-enrolled students of the Georgia Augusta university began to climb up the fountain and to kiss the statue which rapidly became a university tradition. Because the climbing of the fountain was usually celebrated with excessive consumption of alcohol and loud cheers of fellow students and because the number of students largely increased afterWorld War I, police issued a decree in 1926 that officially forbade the climbing and kissing of the statue. A law student who was prosecuted for kissing the goose girl in the same year, took the case to court. However, the superior court of justice in Berlin legitimated the edict.

Göttingen (German pronunciation: [ˈɡœtɪŋən] ( listen); Low German: Chöttingen [ˈçœtɪŋən]) is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. TheLeine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686. Wikipedia

A happy friday evening walk

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I was out walking 10 km with my two sons, to Linnegatan (eating) and back home through the botanic garden.

The one with long hair has just arrived home from a couple of days in London, seeing X Japan, their first visit in Europe.

X JAPAN WORLD TOUR 2011

X Japan och Japanese Voyeurs

tisdag 28 juni 2011

JUN28

Shepherds Bush Empire

Shepherd's Bush Green
London W12 8TT
Storbritannien

Summer delights

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Yesterday evening, I almost took this summer's first bath

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Midsummer 2011, one of the coldest and most windy day this summer

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Falkenberg in the evening 22:00

Midsummer mid day, noon.

36 years ago

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Wienerschnitzel

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Apfelstrudel

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Deutsch Wörter zu lesen

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Badgastein

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In Prague

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Sound of Music

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Dresden from the bus, no time to stop, disappointed!

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More Berlin photos, words shall come...

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My way to the Alps by bus

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Funny fathers in Berlin on father's day, on my way to the Alps

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It is tradition to do a hiking tour with one or more smaller wagons. In the wagons are wine or beer(according to region) and traditional regional food, Hausmannskost. Many men use this holiday as an opportunity to get drunk.

Our guide told us that in compensation the fathers have to visit their mother in law on mother's day and drink a cup of coffee in the sofa.

Funny people in Prague on my way to the Alps

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A spinning class on the river Moldau

Segway tourists

Käspressknödelsuppe

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Leberknödelsuppe

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I have been in Austria

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Waiting for a train to Göteborg after the day of marathon

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A happy finisher, Stockholm Marathon

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Stockholm Marathon

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Runners have more fun

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I was not so fast this time but I've never been this fat before

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Totals

Place	17979
Place (ag)	1244
Time total	01:59:01
Average pace	05.39 min/km

Not me, but we were running in the same race

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I'm Certainly Living a Rag-Time Life

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I found an old schoolmate and friend on youtube. He used to come over to me and use my cassette recorder to copy ragtime LPs

People who knows have said he is one of the best now living ragtime pianists

Bloodroot 'Multiplex' Sanguinaria canadensis

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My wife showed me the name
Bloodroot

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Genus: Sanguinaria
L.
Species: S. canadensis
Binomial name
Sanguinaria canadensis
L.

And
Muscari botryoides (Common grape hyacinth; syn. Hyacinthus botryoides L.)

Why can't I remember names?

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Name?

The girl on the wall behind my laptop, captured by my new camera

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My new camera

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CANON Power Shot SX220 HS 14x Optical zoom

what's the world coming to?

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for a couple of weeks we had summer
but now it is snowing
I'm freezing

zarah leander: ich weiss es wird einmal ein wunder geschehn

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And here is Nina Hagen singing the same song

Lense error !!!!

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My camera is kaputt for the moment.

I met Franz Liszt in Budapest a superstar of his time. almost a God and I can understand why

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Listen to this and be entranced

Oh Värmland, You Lovely (Swedish folksong)

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Photos from http://www.blomskog.org/

The last breakfast

Leaving

"Ack Värmeland, du sköna"/"Värmlandsvisan", may be roughly translated as "Oh Värmland, You Lovely". The song was originally written by the Värmlandian Anders Fryxell in his musical "Vermlandsflickan" (The Värmlandian Girl).

The song is about the county "Värmland" in Sweden. The song was subsequently incorporated 1846 in Fredrik August Dahlgren's play "Värmlänningarna" (The Värmlandians). In Sweden, this composition is often performed as an anonymous treasure of the Swedish folksong tradition. (wikipedia)

Eastern Cemetery, Gothenburg. I took a walk there while waiting for my wife this evening

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