"Ohw thye mighty white hart...."

Yesterday I updated my poetry blog. I had watched a man passing outside my window. He was walking so close to the harts, standing grazing next to the sideway. I was pretty amazed how unconcerned the harts where by him, as well as it seemed that he did not notice them. And I was wondering how such a thing was possible.

Today I saw the herd again. Less than 100 metres away from my window. I went out to get a better view.

Since it was a Sunday, many more people had time to just slowly stroll ahead, so they did.

Many noticed the harts. A women with her child (perhaps 6 years old or so) was calmly watching the beautiful animals.They told me that they used to come and see them here. Before the flock was grazing around the railroad, but now they had changed their spot.

It was silence for a minute and then they throwed out some bread to the harts, which at first backed a bit away, then came forward and ate it. The closest hart was just a couple of metres away from us.

More people passed, stopped, took some pictures.

Most amazed was I by the magnificent white hart, since I have never seen anything like it before.

Apparently, people in the area are used of having a white hart in the neighbourhood, since they had seen it before. The particular thing of today was the fact that no less than 11 harts where grazing so close by, without really being disturbed by us humans.

I'll show you...

Spring and River Cottage

I was watching River Cottage on the webb telly (available on link until 8th of February) and felt so inspired.... Spring is soon arriving on our doorsteps and you better start making out some ideas of planting and growing. Here is a little clip to get a push of energy for that....

Urban Farming

Check out this little short movie about an urban farmer in the US.
I find it very well-made and interesting...



Here you can find out more about the book, the (old blog, new) blog and author.



Some Swedish tunes....

As some of you already know, I lived in the UK's during 2008. I then began my first blogging to share stories and photos with dearest and nearest. During the summer that year, the movie Mamma Mia was released and showed on theatres. So ABBA music got a revival and I wanted to show my British friends that Swedish music is so much more than that. So there you go, in the end of this blog page you got a collection of Swedish tunes that I like and has been big since the end of the 1980's.

In this post I would like to present a few Swedish artists that I just start to familiarise myself with.

Yesterday I tuned in to a radio show on the Swedish channel P3, and just when it kicked of, there was this beautiful song performed by Firefox AK called Boom Boom Boom. It seems to be from a coming album called the same as the song. It will be released the 4th of February this year.

Then I picked out two songs by Hello Saferide for you. They are really nice and you can hear them out below.

And here's a song by Maia Hirasawa, another great Swedish singer.

First sense of spring....

January pictures.

Last one is supposed to be the first pipe smoker David Drummond (1593-1638) in Sweden. He is scuplted by Sven Lunqvist (1918-2010) in 1969. Sven used to imagine that in every stone there is a hidden figure, waiting for someone to unveil it. (is that not how every sculptors generally work? atleast that is how I imagine it to be.)

Spectacular and curious hotels

Following the previous post about a different stay-away place, I found some other cool hotels that I would like to share with you.

Similair to the tree hotel in Sweden, there is a tree hotel (check availability here) in Peru close to Machu Picchu. It is called the Inkaterra Mucho Picchu Pueblo Hotel and one of their rooms the Canopy Tree House. Beautiful!

Outside Dubai you could live in the resort of Hydropolis. Its a hotel with rooms under water. Watch a nicely done trailer on youtube here.

But even in Sweden we have rooms under the water. If not cristal blue water, you could still glimpse some fishes reach a small, traditional-looking house floating in the middle of lake Mälaren. May I present Hotel Utter Inn.

Something much more icy, is the famous Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi. It is completely built in ice and therefore has to be newly built every season. Here are some photos that the hotel has choosen from the season 2009/2010.

The last hotel I would like to show you, also suitated in Sweden, is perhaps not so spectacular and curious looking as the previous presented. But it does stick out. Clean design, made from an old industrial mining on the island of Gotland. I am of course talking of Hotel Furillen (Swedish article).

(follow the links and click

on photos to get to the source)

A room in the trees please.....

A family member of mine use to say that you cannot hinder the birds to fly around your head, but you can stop them from building a nest there. Its really a metaphor about letting go of what other thinks and says of you. Perhaps if you build your own nest you may be able to have a better understanding of the situation, since you might have changed your perspective and are above the feelings on a safe spot.

This morning I was as usually checking through the news and found a very interesting article about a tree hotel in northern Sweden. Prices for a night is prolly more thought of for the ones travelling on a big budget (2000-4000sek/night) or those who wants to celebrate something. Perhaps an unusual honey moon, like lovers in a nest...

The birds did not create this. But they inspired us to think of the possibility of another place to live...or perhaps just to get away from the busy city life and live closer to nature. In 2008 a movie called "Trädälskaren" (The tree lover) was released. It is about building a little place to live high up in a pine. To live up there connects us to ancient time and dreams, where the tree is the symbol of life force, growth and grounding.

The tree lover was the inspiration for the Tree Hotel (following links and click on image to transfer to the homepage and origin of photo). I really like the beautiful a room with a view, the ufo....

....and this one is my favourite in style...the mirrorcube.

There is a great reportage done by BBC where you could get a better feeling of the rooms and stay within them. Watch it here.

Utopian green world

I found my way to National Geographics youtube channel today.
This was pretty neatly done.



It made me think of green cities....

I like Internet, since you find so many interesting and inspiring things. You start looking for something, and then stumble upon other things that appeals to you. Like this about the venus project. I have not heard about it before, but I like the idea.

Still it is very centered around one person (a male architect born in the beginning of the 20th century) and I wonder how much his work affects planners and policy makers of today. But following the venus project is an activist movement spread over the globe. (For my Swedish readers, they can find the organisation here and following a Uppsala produced blog about the movement.)

The thoughts behind the venus project makes me think about the creation of Brasilia and the architecture of Oscar Nieymeyer. To believe in a dream and the creation of something new. Even if I think that we have to work on what we got, instead of making new areas and create totally new urban landscapes. Although, around our globe new cities are still created. There is the new city in Burma, Naypyidaw, or the making of the world outside Dubai and in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia King Abdullah  is building his Economic City.

I continue browsing around and find theese nice green architecture....

...vertical farming...

 and exhibitions.

I find my way to the beautiful Eden project in Cornwall, south west of England and notice that there is a green world city organisation based in Sydney. There are so many interesting projects, organisations and thoughts going around in the world of today. :)

Brazil flood pic...

Today you could watch lots of photos in the news from
the flooding in Brazil...I love this picture... :)

Latest found tracks....

First one out is Lorene Scafaria and her song 28. Love her voice and music....



Second one is Labrinth with Let the sun shine. Cute guy and great club beats...

Among souls and human spirits....

hey people, I know it has been more than a week ago since I have been writing to you..... I am fine... living 3 and a half hours south of Uppsala at my mums place...it's pretty rural, even if the village is the "capital" of this municipality... The public library is great and I am here very often to use internet, scan and copy my documents, renting books from far away (they are very good at finding ones for my thesis and travel)...

I just watched the following movies. The first one is a Danish one from 2007 (note the subtitles in Spanish... :) ), in English its something about "Island of lost souls" but originally its called "De fortabte sjæles ø". I think its special effects is really neat done and the story kept me captivated. Nice going....

The second movie is the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore - Whip it (2009). I think its a cool feel-good movie. It's funny, clever, warm, un-expected and the best of all - the music. I like the way that Drew is part of the movie and her character in it... :) makes me smile....and of course the message of the movie to boost girls self asteem up and make us believe that we can become what ever we want, to  "Be our own heros".