Late summer sunshine

...is what I'm hoping for this weekend!

(Thanks for your comment on the problem with the visualization Tiziana! I'm not quite sure what's going on at the moment, I seem  to get a lot of error reports... But at least I've solved the problem with my comments by adjusting my cookie filter!)

Too soon

Here in Copenhagen it's been raining and so windy that it feels just like autumn! I hope it's not too late for an indian summer...

(I've been having problems commenting on blogs, and I suspect the same is the case here on The Sky from my Window. I hope Blogger solves the problem soon!)

Back in blue

My summer break is over and it's good to be back! I hope you've had a great summer? Rune and I have spent the last weeks getting more healthy, eating better food and doing more excersise. After having been overweight most of my life, I have decided to get a gastric bypass operation and prior to the operation I have to lose 10 % of my weight. -So that has been our summer project and we're doing really well, between us we've lost 20 kg (44 lbs) over the last 7 weeks!

If only I had a garden...

Happy Easter!

Hope you're enjoying your easter sunday! 

April at its best

Hope you have a sunny weekend!

They're here!

Wishing you a happy, sunny weekend!



Seeing red

Photos from the neighborhood. The chinese shop is open. Some poor child has dropped a lollipop. The cafes have moved tables outside in the spring sun. A door shouts "hello".

(I'm sorry to tell you that the pretty Fritillaria in the last post was found at the flower shop, not in a garden. I think it's still to early here in Copenhagen...)

Spring!

I think it's finally here!

Daffodils

 

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

Baby, it's cold outside.

The snow's back here in Copenhagen. And it's freezing!

Waiting for spring...

More flowers, just what I need this time of year! Rune gave me this bouquet, not on monday as he refuses to celebrate Valentine's day (typical male!), but on wednesday. Fine by me, as long as I get flowers as beautiful as these!

Winter sunshine

Winter sunshine on a yellow wall with last summers roses

The colour of January and a bit of green

  

 

    

Good stuff!

Hi! Hope you're off to a good start in this brand new year. I had a great new year's eve with Rune. Lots of champagne and delicious sushi. Have you ever had uramaki with salmon and strawberries? It was surprisingly tasty! We put on some Michael Bublé and danced, and at midnight we watched the fireworks from our window.

I thought I'd show you some of my christmas presents with the jar I won in Tika's give away:

• Beautiful Amethyst earrings
• Beautiful Othmar oak leaves earrings (from darling Rune)
• A macaron book!
• The lovely wrapping paper Tika made for the jar...
• And the beautiful jar itself :-)

The end is near...

Well, at least the end of 2010 :-) It's been a rough year for Rune and I, so frankly I'm glad to see it go. Lots of illness and not so good times. Yesterday I went to the cemetery to see my grandmother's urn being put in the ground. And then to her house with the rest of the family to divide her things. Thankfully it went alright, no bickering at all and a lot of reminiscing.

I'm going to take some time and think about what kind of year I would like 2011 to be... Have you thought about any New Years resolutions yet?

(The snowman is made by some of the children playing in the courtyard where we live, so cute!)

On the 4th Day of Christmas

...my true love gave to me four calling birds. What exactly is a calling bird? According to Wikipedia it's a blackbird. So here is one of my favorite songs, so beautiful and simple it sometimes make me tear up.

I once heard someone explain that the blackbird in this song ís a symbol of the african-american peoples struggle for freedom. After the abolition of slavery, many former slaves still remained on the plantations, unable to fly on their broken wings. The dead of night is supposedly the period they would have to wait, untill the civil rights movement in the 60s made it possibly for them  to spread their wings. It's just one of many intrepretations of this song, but it makes sense to me. Enjoy!

Wishing you a merry christmas!

Christmas shopping

 

The snow is back here in Copenhagen. Yesterday it seemed to come down all day and it was so cold and windy. It looks beautiful when you're sitting inside, all warm and cosy, but it wasn't fun to be out in! This year I've ordered most of the christmas presents online (fingers crossed that they'll be delivered in time for christmas!),but I still have a lot of food shopping to do, so hopefully we'll have some nice weather next week. 

Hope you have a great weekend!

Driving home for christmas...

Sorry about the blog-silence these last couple of days, had a lot to think about with the funeral this week. It was a long day that ended with a long drive back to Copenhagen.

Took these photos on another night we were driving home through the darkness. They remind me of the Chris Rea christmas song:

...top to toe in tail-lights

Oh, I got red lights on the run

I'm driving home for christmas, yea

Get my feet on holy ground...