christmas holiday was so nice this year.

i think i took polaroids..

i cant remember..

i left them in sweden..

anyway..

it was all so so great!

visits..

some family came to see me for a week this May... we had puzzles and walked to preikestolen...man that was a scary place..! but the view was amazing!

easter..

flew home over easter, short and intense time, but always great!! in the heart of scandinavia.

holiday polaroids.....

moroccan shoes ftw! christmas elves!

a holiday date with granny.

I've decided that December is one long holiday. It's just better that way. On our date, we made toffee. Mostly because we've never done it before, they are so cute with paper on them, and remind me of Pippi. Granny was such a trooper cutting all that paper while i wrapped them. I still have to make ginger breads.... and lots of other things. Surviving winter darkness and have a good time all the time.

Jämtland in the autumn

This past weekend, i visited Östersund to see my cousins, i  visited the cabin in Åre and had dinner with uncle and family in northern Jämtland. I love Jämtland... i love the thin bread, i love the fells and mountains, i love the dark forests, i love my family, i love everything there. I hardly ever get to go there in the autumn, so this was a special weekend.

a happy diana and a favorite house.

easter. part 3.

i don't know what happened with the film here. surprise.

the photo in the bottom right is my favorite. haha they are so cute sitting

in the snow sunbathing. it was a really good day.

easter. part 2.

easter. part 1.

family.

next weekend is easter. 

we're going snowmobiling in the deep woods!
we love our woods.
it's like Narnia.

jämtland, by holga

stina by rock carvings

when i was a kid, my grandmother and i went on trips on this boat around the lake, looking for the famous sea monster. i looked and looked but i never saw it.

film: kodak portra 160VC

jämtland in the summer.

probably my favorite place in sweden..
the republic of jämtland is in the west, by the norwegian border.

i love the scandinavian fells and the old woods.

i went hiking on the fell, helped my dad build a log cabin and visited ancient monuments such as grave mounds, an important iron age hill fort, earliest stone churches (11th century), elk trappings and stone age rock carvings. (see my archaeology archives ).

polaroids here from last summer.