A small thundercloud. The dark blue-grey over it is even bigger thunderclouds :-)

It´s thunder season, no doubt about that. I was just about to start writing on my blog yesterday when I heard thunder from a great distanse to the south, but thought I would have time to write something anyway. But then it struck out in the bog perhaps 100 yards from my cottage :-) Guess if I was in a hurry to unplug the computor :-)



Can anyone tell me what this is? I have no idea! Got it from a friend last year and kept it in my cold cellar during winter. I don´t think that it´s hardy in my garden though.

Vacation has just started and now I´ll relax for four weeks. Well that´s not entirely true. I´ll do two trips from home. One up nort and one down south. I have to paint my cottage too. I always has troubles starting, but after that I have rather fun to be honest. The cottage is small so it woun´t take many days to paint it. I also has to chnge some broken pieces of my windows by the entrance.

Now I can´t move pictures here either. Don´t like explorer at all any more. Well anyway, we now can get this little bowl and six or seven others if we buy two pakages of Cellogs different breakfast sereals. One can´t just buy the breakfast bowl. So this one costed me over 7,5 US dollars! I want the rest of them too, but that would be a bit expensive. I hope they start selling them without the cereals, I usually don´t eat thet to breakfast :-)

The common little blue bell.

This bluebell comes from the family Adenophora, but I´m not sure what kind it is.

But otherwise I woun´t do a thing I think. Well that´s not entirely true either. I must go down and give color to the things I made at pottery class too. I haven´t heard that anything got broken during the burning of the clay. As long as the cats head (was it mountin lion we agreed to that it was Mona?) and the bird bath is okey I´m happy. I´ll probably take another pottery class this autumn again. It was loads of fun :-)

Centaurea macrocephala, Globe centaurea. This is a favourite of mine (and loads of small bugs as You can see :-) ).

Ramonda myconi, Ramonda. A close relative to the African violette that can live in Sweden. This one was unfortunally hurt by drought.





I will go daown to Gothenburg again of course too, to visit my son and some friends. Perhaps again take some pictures of my old neighbourhood too. I was thinking of go to a Zoo too, but perhaps not. The one I´m interested in is called Noa´s Ark. That zoo is for breeding endangered animals and they have so many places to hide if they want to, so it´s not sure one can see any of them :-) I would like to see the European wild cat. Looks very much like an ordinary cat, like my Bertil. But they are so wild that they are impossible to tame. Even their kittens are so aggressive that one needs protective gloves :-) I love that about them :-)

Three different violettes growing as weeds in my garden, but who can dig away a beautiful little flower like this?

So if I would do everything I want too during this vacation I would probably need four more weeks :-) But the rest of this week is only for relaxing and perhaps finishing the pond. But otherwise I´ll just relax. Well there´s of course .........

Have a great day now!

This is a grape vine from the American continent, but I can´t remember its name. Can You americans recognise it by its leafs? It can take strong cold weather without problems. It´s to young to have grapes yet though.

Looks yummy doesn´t it? But it tastes nothing at all, it´s not a strawberry You see. Potentilla indica, Mock stawberry, is a relative to the real strawberries though.