Month: July 2012

30
Jul
2012

The past is gone at last

The past is now more or less gone from our housing cooperatives’ premises.

I’ve spent a couple of afternoons there the last couple of weeks and painted the walls in a light grey color. The orange is finally gone. Above and below only the edges were painted and around the windows.

Then the walls got their paint as well.

After a second coat of paint, Birgitta and I assembled the furniture and put some pictures on the wall and put the curtains back up again.

And this was the result. Compare it to this. Sofa, chairs and coffee-table are all from IKEA. Sofa and chairs are EKTORP, table is VEJMON in oak (which doesn’t seem to exist at IKEA in the US). The sofa still need some cushions.

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28
Jul
2012

Hollyhocks

hollyhocks

Hollyhocks

I love hollyhocks. Always wanted to have some. Couldn’t until I got a flower bed.

Last year I bought two, unknown colors. Planted them. I knew they wouldn’t have flowers the first year and that I had to wait til this year. This kind is supposed to be perennial. We will see next year if they are…

I also picked hollyhock seeds at a place we visited last year and put them into the earth as well. Not knowing if they would become something or not. At least one did.

This is the result this year.

The first one. Growing fast, getting higher and higher.

The bumblebees love the flowers of the hollyhock and spin around inside them like crazy. Almost fighting for them if more than one bumblebee wants the same flower.

The second hollyhock. Another shade of cerise than the first one.

And to my surprise I got a third one…

hollyhock

The third hollyhock is pale pink.

The third one is probably from the seeds I sowed. Before the flower opened I thought this was the same plant as the cerise one behind it, but it isn’t.

Early in spring all of them had a kind of decease that affected the leaves so they are all bare at the bottoms, no leaves there. What I could find out it was some kind of “rust”. I have removed the leaves with the decease and because of all the rains I think it is now gone.

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13
Jul
2012

Those were the days

club pråmen

June 4th 1961. Herbert, Bosse, Bellman, Clarence and on the railing Janne B.

Those were the days…

Got reminded about them when Bosse (2nd man standing from left) suddenly wanted to be friends on FaceBook.

This photo is from Club Pråmen, a boat that was a jazzclub and located at Alvik, Stockholm. Spent many evenings and nights there at the time with that gang.

We were also active at the time in the League agains Nuclear Weapons and in the picture below we had a brake in the march to Ursvik (Sweden) in 1961.

Those were the days…

Sitting up, my then best friend Ninna, myself and to the right of me is Bosse. Laying down in fisherman’s sweater is Janne B.

And this is Bosse today (or quite lately, I borrowed the image from his FaceBook page). Some age gracefully.

Bo Carlsson

 

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13
Jul
2012

My outside place

Part of my patio seen from outside.

My outside place is not huge. It consists of a patio on the ground, with direct access to the outside and a flowerbed outside and around it, some space that I share with my neighbor, and some space behind my patio. I fill those areas as much as possible with flowers and plants. I enjoy having this place after 17 years in a flat on the 2nd floor with a balcony that only had sun in the mornings. Before that I actually had a real garden for seven years. It is my third summer here. It gets better each year. Takes time to learn what can grow here and what cannot.

Want so see more of my outside place? There are more pictures on FaceBook.

The entrance to my patio from the outside.

black currants

Black currants. Not quite ready yet. But soon. Share those with my neighbor.

Herbs and greens at the space behind my patio.

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