The lady above:
The view from the location of the marriage act. Capri´s Marina Grande down below.
The 65 guests start to arrive at the wedding dinner..
Lina´s Papa Dag and the very first speech of many..
A beautiful sunset over the Mediterreanean..
The wedding cake - La Torta Nuziale.
Wedding dinner, just before sunset at San Michele.
Yesterday I watched the start of the end of an amazing journey
The Volvo Ocean Race is undeniably the world’s premier global race and one of the most demanding team sporting events in the world.
..from its sunny best around midsummer when most of Sweden had quite lousy weather..
The old crowd I met in Nicaragua some years ago when I stayed in Managua for a month came together in Gotland for midsummer. We payed a visit to the small fishing port of Lickershamn where they have a great shop for smoked fish and shrimps. Here are Don Oscar - who used to work as a driver for the Swedish embassy in Managua and took me on many trips around Nicaragua -and Eva who was our former ambassador in the Nicaragua. Eva is presently stationed as Sweden´s ambassador in Chile.
Bo, Pia, Oscar and Eva in Lickershamn, Sunday. We are all great Nicaragua-friends..
Lickershamn fishing boat.
Sunday dinner. Dessert. Strawberries, melons and peonies.
Old beauty..
The cornflowers start mingling with the poppies in my neighbouring midsummer field..What this election result has unleashed is just a deep frustration,
an anger that I've certainly sensed in the two years I've lived here.
People are so frustrated and angry with the system, which seems to
treat them with contempt.
..we have this wedding coming up.. My daughter Lina and her longtime fiancée,Pontus,are getting married on the
The Blue Grotto, Capri
Thalia in Washington June 2009. 
The Siren´s cliffs, Capri - from which they used to lure the poor sailors by their songs to navigate far too close to these impressive rocks and wreck their ships ..Once I lived for some weeks as a scolar at San Michele, Anacapri, and I can tell you that this island is not only one of the most romantic islands in the world, but also an island with a astonishing and sometimes both decadent and brutal, long, long history..
Yesterday, I found this beautiful diminutive blue egg shell that had crash landed after a fall from my gutter.
It had landed and cracked open on one of my limestone slabs placed in the garden. I had no clue on who produced such a beautiful egg. The garden is a heaven for all kinds of species of birds since ther are an abundance of wetlands in the vecinity. Must have been a very small bird though..
Consulting my computer and Wikipedia, I found that it must have been a European Robin (Erithacus rubecula), or, in Anglophone Europe, simply Robin, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae), but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae). Around 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 in) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north. The term Robin is also applied to some unrelated birds with red breasts. These include the American Robin (Turdus migratorius), which is a thrush, and the Australian red robins of the genus Petroica, which are more closely related to crows.
Well, it became very clear that I just have to put up some more birdhouses in my garden to prevent my delicate cohabitants from nesting in my narrow gutters and from taking blue egg falls like this!
