The WordPress Photo Challenge for this week:
What spells more Hope than milkweed growing through the asphalt in a parking lot?
January 28, 2012
January 27, 2012
Visiting the Dentist
I noticed these tools at the museum the other day…
When the nurse at the dental clinic called today to remind me of my annual check-up, I could only sigh from relief that there has been some definite improvements made in the field of dentistry over the past century…
January 26, 2012
Pewter
In one display case at the museum there is this item.
This piece of bone was used to manufacture pewter thread. Bars of pewter was gently heated and made thinner until they could be forced through the holes in order of size. Once it had the right thickness it was spun on the same type of spindle (distaff) we all know from various fairy tales.
I couldn’t get a good picture of an old neckpiece made with hand-drawn pewter – this one is undoubtedly made with commercially produced thread. Yes, my future neckpiece will look similar to this one – I just have to get started on making my “kolt”.
January 25, 2012
On a Wednesday
One of my real pleasures on a dull afternoon is to take a tour through our excellent museum – today was a perfect day for just that.
That tiny splash of yellow beckoned to me when I came walking along the footpath.
I always notice something new – even among the permanent displays – when I walk around there.This is the same pattern as on my bracelet on a Sami canister for storage. I’m not sure what it was used for – but it seems to be almost watertight. Could it have been used for alcohol, I wonder.
January 24, 2012
Taking in the Situation
I saw this guy through the window of my classroom this afternoon while I was waiting for the nest group to come in.
He stayed quiet, just watching some other boys playing outside school and looked as if he felt pretty secure on his side of the fence.
January 23, 2012
Not the Oscars…
…but the Swedish equivalence is showing on TV tonight. For lack of anything better to do, I’m going to park myself in front of the TV and watch the show.
I don’t even know what movies have been nominated, so this will hopefully be really entertaining.
January 22, 2012
If This Was…
my balcony, I’d photograph it from the other side and then promptly knock down the snow so my livingroom wouldn’t feel so much as a snow cave.
The tenant here must not be as obsessed over light as I am…
January 21, 2012
Weekly Photo Challenge – Simple
Go here to read about wordpress photo challenge and enjoy other entires. This forces me to take another look at old pictures and reevaluate those that didn’t make the cut the first time around. Pictures watched with other eyes or with another purpose in mind suddenly look different from what they did when I first uploaded them to my PC.
This handmade lamp comes from a local glassworks. Beautiful simplicity but it takes a real artisan to produce it and a number of similar birds. The stylized ptarmigans have become the hallmark of the glassworks that opened less than 2 years ago.
January 19, 2012
Hopeful
I’ve spent a perfectly wonderful day accompanying two groups of students during “Meet the author” with a Swedish writer of books for youths. Engaging, interesting and inspiring – I was given so many ideas on how I can work with them to make writing more of a pleasure than a chore.
Many of the students also walked away from there with renewed confidence in their own ability to express themselves. Wonderful – and what a good start on a writing module in Swedish class!
January 18, 2012
From the Archives
Busy, busy at work but things are beginning to fall into place. My schedule looks pretty good – especially since I’ll be working Mon -Thurs. Still not sure whether I’ll really like having 3-day weekends, but maybe it’ll be just as nice as having Wedensdays off…
Actually, this way I may not feel as if I have two weeks when everyone else has one…
