..is a true bliss! The old chestnut tree outside my bathroom window turns into gold..
..and the low rays of a bleak sun turns the living room a glowing yellow. The sun now starts to set around 3.30 PM! The "candle" season has started!
It is time for some clearing of the rich hazelbush vegetation in the back of the garden.
And to collect the last winter apples - the delicious Ingrid Maries. I wrap them in newspaper and store them in the barn and they will last for months.
Last night we held the annual charity auction in our parish at Lummelunda.
Coffee, cookies and a happy priest whose bid landed him two decoration pillows (made by the "apron lady") . My sister with her back to the camera..
..an experienced auction goer - landed a number of pretty things for her Xmas tables at her farm nearby.
Mårbacka geranium in bloom. This is one of the favourite geraniums of the Swedes. Old fashioned, pale pink and very very pretty and said to derive from Selma Lagerlöf´s
(author of Nils Holgersson) homestead of "Mårbacka"