Sunday, June 19, 2011

Birthday Moose Safari, Markaryd, Småland


"Moosing around" before we go into the moose park


What a magnificent animal! And finally a girl with longer legs than Christel! ;-P


She poked her nose in through the car window so that we could pet her. It SO made my day!! :-D


The car got a good moose inspection :-)


This one was hiding in the grass. We almost missed it ;-))


Camouflage!!


He was rather chilled out as we drove on by but we were looking for "Kalle", big daddy of the park.


A mother dozes with her baby! Cuteness x 1,000,000!!


Ah, at last we found the king of the forest, Kalle, looking rather non-plussed at our visit!


Of course we couldn't resist rounding off the afternoon with freshly baked waffles, ice cream and a coffee :-P


Christel couldn't resist the temptation either to get on board before we headed for home!! :-D

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Summer Garden at Cherry Tree Cottage


Life is like a bowl of cherries...or at least like a tree full of cherries!


Cherry picking!


My scarecrow is doing a great job of keeping the birds off our veggie patch


A baby Transparente Blanche apple on its way into the world!


Thinning out the apples on one of our apple trees


The veggie patch is coming along nicely :-)


Gooseberries


White currants


Our Ingrid Marie apple tree


Our old cherry tree, gives us loads of fruit every year (if it ripens quick enough and the birds don't eat all the cherries before we can pick them!!)

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

TappaVandringen 2011, Varberg - 21km hike


At the start with a smile on our faces....or rather a very nervous grimace!!


Christel knows the way!!


Someone with my kind of humour!! :-)))


At the first watering hole, a band tries to keep our peckers up in the pouring rain!!


A long trek down a field track. The wind was wicked and the rain got into every nook and cranny!


....but Christel and Christina are still happy happy happy!!! :-D


A kite surfer makes a splash


14km down, 7 to go, and still smiling (if not almost wet through and sporting a fascinating colour combination!!) :-D Gotta keep moving on!


Swedish humour ;-)


It's a shame you can't hear the photo because the waves crashing against the rocks was lovely!


HOORAY!! The finish line was just around the next fortress :-)