Serendipity strikes a home run..

.. when I found these marvellous old pictures by chance - looking for something completely diffrent - on a great website called Vintage Prints that provides public domain antique scientific, naturalist, and other images for you to print or download.

I have been spending hours after hours at this site being greatful to this anonymous enthusiast who collects and saves these timecapsules for us to enjoy. Here are a few I picked for you: (Beware: most silly comments are mine!)

 

Reminds me of the small hours at one of my favourite pubs.  

( I am too smart to mention any name here.)

 Vintage makeover. Looks a bit painful. The question : "Is she really worth it?"

 

" Queen of hearts as judicial official, presiding over the trial of defendant knave-of-hearts  charged with felonious misappropriation and wrongful conversion of tarts.."

 

 Swaddled twins in Holland.  

They did not want them to turn out very crooked in those days long before free drugs and rock-n-roll....

  

 Library reading chairs. How I would love to go vintage! Want one!!

Well thinking of it, I am rapidly heading in the direction..

 

A potent King of Hearts! 

Oh, the ways of symbolic expressions of the passed!

 

A small step for Man and a great leap towards modern medicine?

 

Regal finger snaps: Jolly and obese like Santa - and keep the grub coming Joker!

Painting, childrens books.

 

In the late1940´s style.  

Sooo right! And pale. A prelude to the headscarved, eyebrow  arched Audrey-Hepburn-era.

 

Beautiful vintage botanical print; Gloxinias. From floral world and garden guide (1878)

 

"The honey dew on thy lip.." Old Valentine card.

 Now here is the link. I hope you will enjoy it as I did! Thank you Swivelchair, you anonymous biopharma worker!

 Vintage prints

Sunday..

..jingle bells and a torch..
Me and sis and Hälge on this sunny Sunday afternoon

A whole cream landscape and the search of a diver's mask

My house is studded impressive with icicles. The heavy snow thunders off the roof at night. I wake up and I think of King Bore bursting out in cold anger..

 

 

This is our present Gotland environment right now.

 

 The temperature is more pleasant here in Gotland than in most parts of Sweden - which boasts some unbelievable 35 C degrees below and more in some places. The surrounding Baltic acts like a "heating" instrument here still. But not for long. The ice is now rapidly forming a lid on parts of the Baltic - for the first time in decades.

Long shadows and no wind.

It feels like we are living in midst of a bowl of whipped cream!
Ok! The only thing we are lapping up are the fewrays of sun that occationally penetrates the dark skies. I am now off to the attic to look for my skin-diver's mask and snorkel! It is high time for a break now to take in some sun and  to swim in turquoise waters! This winter threatens to be a long one!

New Years day..

..in Gotland. As beautiful as can be with plenty of snow.

  And sunshine. No wind. Nature brings on a very special color palette.

 

  Time to put on the cross country skies.

 

 It feels like we live in some alpine chalet.

Some Christmas trees decorate themselves!

A Happy and Good New Year and a great and promising new decade to you all from Gotland, Sweden!

2010

A new decade soon..

..and I hope we will have plenty of reasons to keep on smiling!
 
And "My Man" a great tune by Billie Holiday for a bit of balance..

Getting a bit weary of Christmas grub..

..we decided to head for Visby last night and the Bolaget Restaurant on the main square of the medival town.

 The Bolaget is as close to a Paris bistro you can get in this part of th world, and it opened three years ago (after a careful renovation) in the old location of a former govermental liquor store on the town´s main square. 

They play French chansons and particularly Piaf! (In the lavatory a soft voice is reading french stories on a loudspeaker!)

 

 Local Gotland specialities are served á la saison..

 

The menu is excellent and prices are fair..

 The atmosphere is cosy and the wine list elaborate..

 

Outside the windows the Santa Carin´s ruin is illuminated at night, emphasizing the medieval ambiance.

 

 The main square at night still retains its Christmas atmosphere..

 

The Bolaget trattoria. 

 
In comparison: Another side of Visby in its wildest summer mood..

Christmas Carol Earsore ..now we crave a Boogie!

A lovely Christmas eve! Swedish style..

I hope your Christmas was a great one too!

The Tomten..And Merry Christmas to you all!