A few "zoom" photos from a sunny day earlier in October, taken with my compact camera.
After a sunny weekend and start to this week, we're now (Tuesday) back to grey and rainy weather again - and today I haven't been out at all. Today that actually suited me just fine, though, as I had the laundry room booked anyway, and three loads to wash...
This morning started out foggy - but later it turned into a amazingly crisp, clear and sunny autumn day. I went for another walk down to the riverside, and back home via the cemetery. I live only a short walk from both - but today I walked slowly on purpose, just for the pleasure of staying out for a while (an hour or so).
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| 17 October, 2026 |
Linking to Weekend/Street Reflections #299
The weather has been shifting a lot this week. Today we had a nice sunny afternoon again, and I snapped this photo from a bridge over the river, in connection with a walk to my nearest super/mega-market.
While I buy most of my groceries online with home delivery these days (from the same mega market), I occasionally like to visit in person to keep up to date with changes, or to check on things of the kind one really wants to see IRL before buying.
I found that besides Halloween decorations, they already had a lot of Christmas decorations on display...
Most of that feels way too early for me to think about yet, as I don't want any Christmas decorations up before Advent/ December. But online I had seen some tall green LED candles that I might like for November... And I did end up buying a pair of those. (Not using those just yet either, but they may show up in some future post.) Plus a couple of other small items where size/colour matters to me.
Linking to Skywatch Friday
It's been a week of more clouds than sunshine, and also quite a bit of rain on and off - but still quite a few colourful autumn leaves "hanging on" to brighten up the views.
It's also been a "going round the mulberry bush" kind of week (i.e. a week of various repetitive household chores). (We have the song in Swedish, too - but here we go round a juniper bush!)
On Monday afternoon I went for a walk down to the river and back. Tuesday was laundry day for me. It was also raining more or less all day, and I don't think I got out at all.
Wednesday was sunny, and I got some "autumn cleaning" done on my balcony: Taking down the "privacy" trellis from one side of the railing (most of its fake leaves "gone with the wind" now anyway!); and then getting the (two) plastic rugs off the (metal) floor, and hanging those on the railing to dry in the sun that afternoon, and then rolling them up and put them to spend another couple of days in a corner of my bathroom - before I finally got them down to the basement storage today. (They're getting old and stiff, and so am I, so I'm not sure they'll be laid out again next summer...)
Thursday was grocery delivery day (in the late morning, before lunch). In the afternoon I got out for a while, for my usual walk around the old cemetery. Today, Friday, it was raining most of the day again; and on top of that it was another day of constant noise and vibrations from the park construction work going on nearby: Still just a huge muddy field that seems to be craving endless layers of grit, sand and soil to raise it to the same level as the surfaces next to it... I did manage a short walk during a break in the rain, but stayed even closer to home (i.e. did not go over to the cemetery).
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| Rowan Tree |
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| Unidentified bush along the river |
We have an expression in Swedish that doesn't have an exact equivalent in English. I would say about these dahlias that they "sjunger på sista versen", which literally means "singing the last verse". Trying to find an equivalent in English, the nearest I come is that they're "on their last legs". (?) - But I guess both expressions can apply: both to flowers still keeping upright, even if some of their neighbours have already given up, and also to trees still hanging on to the major part of their leaves, while knowing the next storm may change that all to quickly...
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| Huge Horse Chestnut Tree (in the cemetery) |
Grand Finale: "A particularly elaborate, high-energy, or spectacular ending, often featuring special effects like fireworks or a full ensemble."
