Happy New Year!
This year we got a storm. Alfrida came and picked up the ‘geodesic dome’ Jens built as an art project at our garden party 2 years ago.
And put it down 10 meters away with a crash.
It was well anchored, we thought. Oh well – ephemeral it is.
We make saffron bread for the winter holidays.
More fullkorn flour and less sugar of course.
Ready for dunking.
Perhaps the last flowers from our garden this year.
You’d be scared too if you saw who’s taking my picture.
Getting ready for the big one!
The yearly Wik Harvest Market. We are spending a good part of 3 days harvesting, baking, packaging, etc.
It starts tomorrow (16 sept) 11 oclock at Wik Slott near Uppsala.
Yesterday was a hot day – too hot to work in the garden. Instead we went to a farm auction nearby.
Alot of big machines
Non that I needed. My big prize was this wire work/art.
I suppose it’s an egg basket for holding eggs in boiling water.
From the Christmas jack o lantern.
Happy Finland!
It’s Finlands 100th birthday. Besides their design, music, art, food, Finland has influenced me very much – like in my building ideas when I saw photos of Finnish garden buildings at an art show.
Now for some Finnish garden art (random pictures stolen from the internet).
Finlands thing is my thing.
Today we found a fun and different market in our neighborhood park (Minatogawa park) – arts and crafts, music, food, and coffee and….
Coffee ceremony
The adress to an organic tea grower near Nara.
Nan bread with spinach curry lunch
Nan bread oven
One of the most famous and photographed and visited places in Kyoto i the buddhist temple Kiyumizu dera. We went there again today too. We just can’t get enough. And it’s not the last time I hope.
It was labor day in Japan, so the crowds were big.
Alot of the buildings were covered in shrowd because they are being repaired. It was the same three years ago it seems but different buildings, so we didn’t go out on the famous balcony for pictures, but got some good ones anyway.
Wisteria in winter covers.
We had a fika break with amazake and warabi mochi.
And some water from a mountain spring.
We were there till dark, but didn’t stay for the light show. We walked down to the kamo river and got a river stone for and old friend. Then ended the day with dinner at the vegan restaurant Veg Out – brown rice with a view of the river. 
