Berlin Winter Pastels

Started the day at the laundromat. Johan went through his subway tickets.


Can it get more urban than this? I asked.


The colours pop out so nicely as soon as there's a bit of snow.


Rejected.


One of my favourite signs in the neighbourhood.


When I came home and uploaded the pictures to my computer, I saw a colour theme in the pictures. Reminded me of one of my all time favourite blogs, Liivia is so good at combining colours in her pictures.

What's your plan for the weekend?
I will cut Johan's hair, make a simple version of this and on Sunday Johan will buy me a Guinness. Why? It will be 12 years ago that I fell in love with him, on a night in a pub in Gothenburg where he bought me... a Guinness. Ever since then, we always have Guinness on February 5.

Let's go to the Snake Mountain

Second second hand round was coming up on the day before going home. After Christmas, the first one we went to was closed and I said Let's go to Ormberget (the Snake Mountain").


It's not yellow, can I eat it?


This mountain is a small one for downhill skiing. I was once there to practice as I had been at another place earlier that day where I was failing all the time, people were shouting Game over! to me (I hadn't learned how to break and I have no balance and I suck at sports). I was, well maybe 15 years old, and a little kid comes up to me and asks Hey lady, weren't you at that other mountain earlier today?. My fifteen minutes of fame.


The view is spectacular.






It was a very beautiful moment to be there with my dad and Johan. Afterwards we went to a second hand store ;)

That's it for this time. Hopefully this year I will see Luleå in summer time, it's been... 8 years now, I think. I wanna see the sea sparkle, although it's also nice when it's covered with ice and you can be Jesus and walk on water.

Icebreakers

This is my hometown Luleå.


And these are Oden, Ymer, Atle & Frej - old friends of mine ;) They are so majestic, those icebreakers.


I love being in Luleå. Can't really imagine living there again (moved away in 1999), but the heartaches I have from missing my family are getting worse the older I get.


My dad & a sick Johan.


This was the brightest moment during the week over there. The colours!!!


Kungsgatan (King's Street) with Dagobert's Sandwich Bar to the left, where I used to hang out during my high school years eating sponge like shrimp sandwiches skipping classes (maths, psychology and natural science). We didn't go there, instead we turned right to have Chinese buffet at Exotic. Very good name.

Time to make a change

Some days ago, snow came.


And on Sunday I headed out for a walk with Johan.






That man.




We had brunch at Aunt Benny, still my favourite café in the neighbourhood. I'm posting these pictures to torture myself as I have started a fast for the first time ever in my life. Time to clean both myself and my surroundings! I have many changes I want to make and I'm already on my way :)

Will let you know how this fasting thing goes.
Do you have experience?

Winter survival

Most important for me to survive winter and the darkness is to take a walk when it's light outside. Pictures above are from a day when I almost forgot and rushed out right before the sun had set. Another thing I do is make soups with lots of vegetables, cayenne and cream. Going to make one later today and feed someone who's sick :)

It's a good Monday.

A winter story

When you wake up early and the world is all white, it's Sunday morning and almost no one else is out. The city is all yours.

A proper Winter

Well, you can say Winter has arrived. It's beautiful, the light makes me feel so inspired to take more pictures again. The colours pop out so beautifully, and Johan's hair blends in with the snow. Outside it's cold, inside I do my best to stay warm. -44°C is the coldest I ever experienced, when I lived in the north of Sweden, so this I can handle ;)

It's been 5 years since I spent my first night (a blog post from the first morning) in the apartment where we live now. I have hardly ever lived longer than 5 years in one place before. I like it here.