November. Photo of the Week #58

First day of my least favorite month. Ugh. November. And of course today was grey, windy and cold. But I got to eat brunch with a great friend and that’s what one should do. Eat.
 
I have been looking for a good picture… and all I found was this sort of Altdorfer’ish thing from Sweden. But [...]

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Onions. Photo of the Week #56

Aren’t these onions on the dark ground just the perfect illustration for autumn?

I’d use them in a stew of some kind – one that should be simmering all day. Or maybe for a French style onion soup like this one.
/anna

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Must!

Apples all around – at our Swedish house (in an area where they even have apple festivals), at home and by my uncle’s. So what to do with all those apples, besides pies, jellies and eating them raw? Must of course. Apple juice that is. So here is how it’s done:
After having located the nearest [...]

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Apples. Photo of the Week #52

It seems that the Danes are returning to tasty varieties of apples instead of just those shiny and huge ones that last forever. Until recently Granny Smith seemed to be the only apple around but now you can get Discovery, Ingrid Marie, Gråsten (Gravenstein), Cox Orange, Filippa and others. I think it’s wonderful to find [...]

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Rain and wind. Photo of the Week #51

This has more or less been the general mood these last few days – especially if you add some wind:

I saw this door handle in Lübeck, Germany last year, and I find it quite charming. Crossing my fingers for the weekend…I will not accept October weather in September. No, no.
/anna

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Harvest. Photo of the Week #46

During the part of my summer vacation I spent in the Danish countryside I went on a fantastic picnic with my family. After sandwiches and cider we went for a walk along the fields where they were already harvesting.

It was a beautiful sight and I ache to escape the city again and go back to [...]

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Deer. Photo of the Week #45

Even though my family summer house is in an area with a lot of  small houses there is some wild life and it seems more and more as the years go by. This summer we were often visited by a couple of these guys. A male and a female.

This evening one of them almost jumped [...]

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Summer! Photo of the Week #42

I’m leaving. And this is where I’m going. Cheerio!

/anna

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Midsummer. Photo of the Week #42

As already reported my sister finished high school this week and she had her last exam on the 23rd of June. In Denmark we celebrate midsummer on that day – St John’s day or Sankt Hans. All over the country people light bonfires where a witch is burned at the stake. These last say 400 [...]

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The utter joy of wearing a cap

My sister just took her A-levels and along with that comes a host of both ceremony and champagne. I remember it as one of the happiest summers when I finished high school 11 years ago. And it looks like it’ll be the same for her – just look at these photos taken today when the [...]

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