Soaking up heat!
And radiating it back out.
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Somewhat ephemeral
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.
Perhaps the last flowers from our garden this year.
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
The main pretence for our trip to Japan was to visit Arashiyama (on the outskirts of Kyoto) during the autumn leaf festival!
So far the autumn leaves haven’t impressed me much. Yesterday was a bit rainy, so we went today. We picked a good day. It was sunny with intermittent showers and a cold north wind. Arashi mountain itself was not so colorful, but there were huge crowds of locals and turists to see the autumn leaves.
After walking all over the place we decided to finish the day with the gardens of Tenryuji Temple.
On the way there, we followed the crowd going in to see the gardens of Hogonin Temple. What a magnificent discovery! A fantastic moss garden canopied with maple trees in every shade of green, yellow, orange and red, complete with a couple of gardeners constantly brushing the falling leaves off the moss.
Tenryuji had equally impressive gardens with moss, maple trees, water flows, a carp pond, rocks, fences and bamboo groves.
At the end of the day. We were cold and tired and didn’t bother to go into the temple, but did catch a glimpse of this guy and then had to head back to the ryokan.
There are a few more objects of art in the garden.
The stone I got for a birthday present has been raised.
Farmer Ericsson brought over a cement tub.
This will sooner or later be rolled into the gothic greenhouse, tipped upright and filled with water for watering, and water art.
I had a bunch of cement pipe holes laying around that I didn’t have any use for. Why not make a garden cairn?
This old stump needed a flat sone on top.
The destination of our trip was Gunillaberg, an estate run by the danish floral artist Tage Andersen. The weather was a perfect mix of grey clouds, rain and even some sun.
There are lots of animals of various old fashion species and races that keep the grass perfectly trimmed.
A wild profusion of trees, bushes, shrubs, weeds and flowers
Art
And gobs of garden art
For many people the high point might be a concert in the conservatory
Or one of Tages pastries in the outdoor cafe
Or a visit to the outhouse.
Some art left behind
Taking it easy again
Round things 
There is a lot of dead ash and elm trees on the farm. They are gradually being cut down for fire wood. I help a bit and get some good logs for sculpting.
