I had the whole upper floor of my friends home, an old school, all to myself. This is some of what I could see from the balcony by my room.

Their "little" dogyard. Think it was as big as my garden :-)

Their "little" pond :-) Unfortynally the filter of the pond had malfinctioned while they were away for a couple of days, so the water was completely green of algia.

During my stay we took a trip to the closest town, Söderhamn. They have, unlike so many other towns in Sweden, kept most of their old tree and stone buildings. During the 60:s and 70:s they tore down all old buildings in Sweden, claiming the old houses were a health hazard and to expensive to repair. Replacing them with concrete buildings. Today we all think it would have been worth the money to save the old. Unfortunally I forgot to take any pictures of the town, but took at a couple of churches instead.

We took a trip to the closest town, Söderhamn. It was a hot and sunny day so we went in to a couple of old churches made of stone. It was so nice and cool! Unfortunally I forgot to take a picture of this church outside.

I´ve always wondered why they make Jesus look like he came from a skandinavian country. To be honest, he can´t have been rather short and looked much like the arabs do today.

There are graveyards around the churches and that is what You can see on the picture of Ulrika Eleonora. All the flowers in front of the church is graves. To get inside these old stone churches on a sunny and warm day is a relief. The air is cool and the stillness inside is soothing for ones soul.

This church is called 'Ulrika Eleonora. I´m not sure if this is a typical look for a church in northern Sweden, but I saw some with the same shape in the arcitecture.

I think that the windows looks quite modern in their looks. But I think they were pretty old too.

I´m not sure what tis is to be honest, but I think it´s some kind of nobility shields from powerful families that lived in the area. The churches was filled with them anyway.

After being to theese churches we went to two gardencenters. Normally I don´t buy plants in gardencenters nowdays because of the spanish wood snail, or should I write wood slug? They have no enemies in the swedish nature and eats everything they come close too. But they hadn´t gotten them up here yet so I felt secure buing plants there. I´ll show You pictures of what I bought in a later blog. I also got plants to have in my pond from the friends I visited.

Tomorrow I´ll show You pictures from our trip to the ocean. For those living there the water is really salt, but for me comming from the west coast it´s almost like freshwater :-) But more of that tomorrow. Now it´s starting to blow harder outside. We´re going to get a lot of rain, wind and thunder they say. So if I´m not writing in Your blogs or not answering in my own You know why.

Have a great day now!