The village Tråvad, where I had my gardencenter is placed just beside the river Lidan. Some years ago one of the mothers in the village cleaned this place up and made a bathing place by the river. Since all kids bathed there anyway she thought it would be nice if they came home not only wet, but clean too. The place were really muddy then. Nowdays the visitors can buy candy and coffee/tea/soda with cakes , icecream, bunns and sandwiches there. They have also made two beachvolleyball corts there too and a soccer field. So most of the villagers are there when the weather is nice. (the water from the creek that I usually show pictures from here near my village finally comes in to this river)

They had a railway here too. The bridge is still there, but the trains are long gone. When the railway dissapered the village sort of got in to a long, long sleep that still goes on.

It´s a really nice summerday today. Not much sun, a bit of drizzle but no wind and rather warm. It was a pleasure to take the walk with my dogs after work today. The birds sang and all flowers smelled nice after the big rains.

People that went with the train threw out half eaten aplles through the windows when closing in to the station at Tråvad. Nowdays there are growing a lot of apple trees along the now gone railway. All are edible and some are really good, but one sort is delicious! It´s the best aplle I´ve ever eaten. I have been thinking about grafting some branches on my apple trees but I have no idea what sort pollinates this apple so I might just get flowers and no apples.

It´s such a beautiful place. The bath bridges hasn´t been put out yet though. The vegetation on the right is on a small island in the river. Mean geese usually nest there :-)

We´ve had some troubles with things dissapering at work for a while now. Doors has been unlocked when we´re comming in the mornings, but the alarm has not started. It´s just small things, yet. This morning I and my dogs went in to my boss office to prepare for working (I did that, my dogs just looked at me :-) ), when suddenly a large metallic bang sounded. It sounded like a pipe had fallen to the floor. I´m not stupid and has no urge to play heroe, so I stayed for a minute or two in the office and then got out to see what had fallen to the floor.





Now the island is on the left beside the picture.

Sword lilies are flowering on the island now. The sword lily is the only Iris that grows wild in Sweden. We had one more before but that is gone now. I think I´m going to have swordlilies in my pond.

I didn´t find anything that could explain the sound anywhere so it must have been the thief that dropped something on the floor while getting out of the factory. I called the owner of course and it seemes someone has copied two keys nearby because there was a bill sent to the factory a couple of weeks ago, but no one has autherised any copying what so ever. There were of course no signature on the bill. After talking to the owner I went to work as usual, but didn´t go inside without my dogs all day :-)

The other side of the bridge. This river is full with crayfish, something we love in Sweden.


Just beside the bridge is a great place to fish. I used to sit there warm evenings by my self if possible. But usually all kids in Tråvad found me :-) :-)

We´re actully getting some sun these comming days :-) But when midsummer comes the rain comes too. Midsummer is a very big thing here in Sweden and I´ll explain all about it later comming week. I myself doesn´t celebrate it, I think it´s sad when we´re slowly turning towards autumn and winter again. Why celebrate thet?
Have a great day now!