Make Believe

(Meme copied from Facebook)

"I need a day between every day to
recover from the day before and
prepare for the upcoming day."  

And that, of course, becomes even more true with an unusually intense week behind me...

For me it was only 2 days + 1 night away from home; but altogether I had ~ 4 days with my brother (three whole days + two half days). And I took lots of photos. So I'm going to take my time blogging about it.

P drove down here from Karlstad on Monday afternoon (7 Aug) and arrived towards evening. (For him a journey of around 300 km/185 miles.) Because of the weather (very rainy) we had decided not to set off for the coast until Wednesday (which might give us at least one sunny day on Thursday). So on Tuesday we had a fairly relaxed day with lunch at home, and in the afternoon just went for a short trip by car across town to the Abecita Art Museum (click if you want to know more about it) to see their current photo art exhibitons. The museum is spread over three large floors, and with five different current exhibitions (+ some permanent works from their own collection) we spent quite a while there.

The  exhibiton that I liked best was 'Make Believe' by photographer Erik Johansson. (Link to his own website.)

Some of his works fitted the rainy weather very well... ;)

And the one below made me think of Ginny of the blog Let Your Light Shine and her many wonderful photos of the Moon... ;)  (I cropped this image a little to get rid of some disturbing reflections in my own photo.)

 

 

 Looking out from a window at the Abecita Art Museum towards the shopping centre nearby.

We had coffee/tea in the museum café before we left; and before we went back home we also stopped at one of the nearby shopping malls, where I managed to find a pair of rubber boots. (Or 'wellingtons' or 'rain boots' or whatever - tell me your preferred name for them in the comments, if you like!) 

I had searched a couple of shoe shops in the city centre the week before without finding any in my size (not really surprising, after a whole month of rain!!) - but now at last found a pair that fit me, in a sport shop. Living in town, I've been managing without any for years - but realized that at least for one of our planned adventures, I'd probably really need them... 

The rest of the day was spent packing (for me), planning for the trip, and general "catching up talk".

 

(PS. Speaking of catching up... In case someone is wondering, I have been reading/ catching up with more blog posts by my online friends than I've commented on.)