I Passed a Rune Stone
Yes. Every day since I moved to the farm on an island in Sweden, I have passed by a rune stone without noticing. How awful is that? My penance? That […]
Category Archives: Stockholm
I Have a Friend Named Rune. But He is No Stone.
Rune stones abound in the Uppsala region. In a recent blog post—Spring into Ekerö Rune Stones and Lambs—I thought I was searching for a rune stone because of the blue […]
Fallen Rune Stone
Yesterday I went in search of rune stone U16. Today I went back to visit U18 (here it is on Panoramio and Google Earth). This stone was carved sometime near the […]
Spring into Ekerö: Rune stones and Lambs
Continuing last week’s posts about spring’s arrival at Stavsund, I took my camera with me while I went about some errands on Ekerö. This involved stopping by C’s other house […]
Drottningholm Slott, Ekerö: The Palace in my Backyard
Drottningholm Palace is on UNESCO’s World Heritage list. It is the most well-preserved royal castle built in the 1600s in Sweden and at the same time is representative of all European […]
The Lat and Long of Light
It is forever amazing to me how external light reignites the internal one. In June of 2010, my first year living in Stockholm, I wrote a post called the Night Never Comes. […]
Stavsunds Gods
No, it is not a religious reference. It is the farm upon which I live. Stavsunds (or Stafsunds) Gods is the main manor and it has been in the current family […]
Stockholm Archipelago – Sandhamn
I recently wrote about my need to retrain my brain. Over the years I have recognized that one useful jump-start to this progress is to get away, get out, go somewhere […]
