This is the trunk of an old birch tree. Birch bark was used for many things - roofing and for weaving baskets and shoes.
This is Dorota and Thomas at the back of the Iron Master's farmstead.
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Sweden is full of forest. This is the trunk of an old birch tree. Birch bark was used for many things - roofing and for weaving baskets and shoes. |
| This sculpture, the hand of God, is by Carl Milles. The house where he lived, on Lidingö, is now a museum of sculpture called Millesgården. | |
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The archipelago outside Stockholm is beautiful in all seasons. Summer is best, though. |
| Skansen is a great place in the summer, with many old
buildings from different places and periods of Swedish
history rebuilt in Stockholm. There are also animals and
gardens. This is Dorota and Thomas at the back of the Iron Master's farmstead. |
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| Skansen also has a folk-dancing team that demonstrates on summer evenings. |
| You can fish in the Swedish archipelago. Here is Thomas with a perch caught in Asrikefjärden off the northern edge of Lidingö. | |
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Another boat - this time a Waxholm boat in late autumn, making its way from one island in the archipelago to another. |
| The forests are good places to go and pick bilberries, lingon (a small berry with a taste similar to a cranberry), and mushrooms. Don't forget to take mosquito repellant in the summer months. | |
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Another picture from Skansen. This is the only building in Skansen that is not from Sweden. It is the Vastveitloftet, from near Trondheim in Norway, and its timbers are amazingly sound (and beautiful) after hundreds of years in the open. |