Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinosaurs. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

the season's first amanitas

hey man, get those poisonous things away from me!


that story from my hometown just gets worse and worse, so i thought i'd lighten things up with the season's first gorgeous amanitas. they are so bright and beautiful - they're the stuff of fairytales; every year, i feel delighted and surprised by them. i never tire of their bright red polka-dotted beauty. and today, with all of the bad news coming through (i didn't know these people, but somehow, i do feel the effect on my hometown, even here across an ocean), finding a small moment of delight in nature was much needed.

hold onto your moments of delight, you never know when you will need them.

Sunday, July 05, 2015

vikings and bunkers and dinos, oh my!


hmm, it seems they can help out if it's for their own end-of-the-school-year party. 


a dino spotting in the pathetically small corn across the way.
it's been so cold, the corn wasn't happy.
but a few days of sunshine and it's already double this size.


husband and my cousin try out a viking game.


i swear i don't remember that many bunkers at søndervig strand.
i wonder if some of them have risen up out of the sand.


and a raptor chomps a flower in the golden hour.


and we wished upon paper balloons instead of 4th of july fireworks.


gorgeous naturally-dyed yarn and fabrics at the viking market.
it was too hot for me to be tempted to buy any.

summer has come at last and around here it's been filled with an end-of-the-school year party, a visit from family that ended up rather viking-themed, a stroll on the west coast, lots of ice cream, playing cards, doing puzzles and drinking wine until the wee hours. oh, and a few dinosaurs, just for good measure.  and boy, have the strawberries started to come on! they were clearly happy to have some sunshine and warm temperatures as well. i've been juicing and freezing and quite literally spent hours today picking. luckily, i had a helper - molly the garden cat.



tho' things tend to slow down during the danish summer, the week ahead promises good things. and even more strawberries.