I woke up to a mystical world today, everything was and still is covered in thick fog. Only I , my dogs and about ten thousad cranes were awake when we took our walk. It could have been a magical morning if it only had been a couple of cranes shouting, but that feeling sort of dissaperes when the cranes makes a wall of sounds :-)

These trees stand about one hundred meters (328 feet) in front of me and can hardly be seen.

Our nesting couple arriwed this morning too. We had just arriwed home when I heard one of them shout just near my cottage flying down to its territory. I walked as fast as I could round the cottage to get a picture of it in the fog while flying down. Of course it took the way on the other side of my cottage so it dissapered in the fog before I could get a picture of it. Its spose had already landed further down at the field.

With a bit of imagination one understands that passing through "the Portal" one enteres a magical country :-)

The Swedish women got a silvermedal in the World Championshps in curling this morning :-) They met China and the chinese team wiped the ice with the swedish team :-) You should have heard what the swedish skipper said about her and her teams efforts during the game. Lousy was on of the words we heard her say :-) I´ve bocome really fond of curling and it´s so much more than just throw a big stone on the ice. Unfortunally we only have a chanse to see it when it´s one of the big games going on, like the Olympics ore World championships. Strange really because Sweden usually is one of the best countries in the world in that sport. I´ve heard that pepole in Canada can se the national leage on tv, that is something we´ll never be able to do.





I have a lot to say about swedish television if I would like to, but will only write about one thing I always wondered about. In most countries if a tv program is popular they don´t change to much in it. Why change something that works? In Sweden it´s a bit different (now I´m talking about the biggest Tv company, Swedish Television). They think more like this: If something is popular it must be something wrong with it, let us change it :-) If a program have been showed more than five years and, despite a lot of changes, still is popular they shut it down :-)

The fog even had the strength to get inte the forest today. That doesn´t happen often.

Take for instance the only good garden program we´ve ever had, Green Rooms. It had over one million watchers every week and that´s not bad for a country with nine million people and to be honest, it was a garden program. Then they decided that they wanted something else, they wanted a program about garden design instead. They got loads of protest mails (paper and computor) and the answer we got was: “There are enough of people that knows how to plant a rose.” Of course the design program never got a lot of people watching it, therefore they showed it a couple of years more. No one liked it, therefore it must be a great program :-) Nowdays we´re watching Brittish garden programs instead :-)

The crabapple tree and my dogyard.

Well to be honest I´m a bit biased when it comes to that peticular tv program. I was on it when I opened up my gardencenter. They thought it would be fun to follow someone that tried to make a dream come true. I have such great memories of those two women that came and filmed me for a long time :-) We had a lot of fun these days and You should know what they did to get permission to film me at Volvo where I worked then. Or the many times we had to film the same thing over and over again, just because we all started to laughe all the time :-)
Perhaps I´ll tell You more about that some other time.
But for now, have a great Sunday!