We are just back from our first boat outing of the summer! It is a glorious day outside, so we decided to just go for it, despite being nervous about getting everything to work. It was absolutely lovely!
Here we are hugging the shore on the east side of Nesodden, checking out all the fabulous summer houses along the water line. Sigh. What I wouldn't give to own this property (for example--there are dozens that I was swooning over). After we got home I started making the Lentil stew from a previous post again. It smells so good I could pass out. Here's a peek:
It's time too for an update on what I am calling E's "Steinerskolegenser" (Waldorf school pullover). Thus named because it is turning into
such a hippy sweater:
As you can see I'm almost done with the first sleeve. I'm running a little low on yarn, but I'm still hoping there's enough to make a turtleneck at the end.
As I was uploading these I discovered the few snapshots I took while on the conference excursion to the Österlen region of the Swedish province of Skåne, and some turned out kind of fun, so I'll post them here. First up is a couple of the old timbered houses in the town of Ystad, which is also home to Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series:
The second is purportedly the oldest existing timbered house in Scandinavia, and it also happens to be the childhood home of the late Ernst-Hugo Järegård. He's the actor who played the angry Swede in Lars von Trier's
Riget.
After our guided Wallander-tour of Ystad, we drove to Kåseberga, where we had a gourmet lunch on the seaside patio at
Vendel Ales Stenar restaurant and then walked up the hill to view one of Scandinavia's most impressive Viking age sites,
Ale's stones:
It was swarming with people, but still impressive on such a bright and sunny day. There was a whacked out self-titled tour guide there pontificating on his theory about the original function of the stones, which are set up in the shape of a large ship. I have no patience for that kind of new age pseudo-science, so I didn't stick around to listen or pick up any of his home-produced brochures.
