A walk around the bay of Hovaneset

    

  

 

 

  

  

 

Glorious day

 

The sky was a perfect blue and the water beautifully calm today. A view from a side of Smogen I never visited before... possibly the most beautiful site here.

 

 

 

Very yummy apple cookies

I made apple cookies for the first time, and boy these were good! The apple bits are like soft candies to which the dough balances with perfect chewiness. I think it is particularly good with the small type apples, often used for pies. The original recipe is from a Japanese recipe site called Cookpad.

 

Ingredients: 1-2 apples, 240g flour, 120g butter, 40g sugar (for the apple mix), 40g sugar (for the dough), some honey, 1/2 egg.

Steps: 1) In a frying pan or pot, stir fry the diced apples in sugar until there is no liquid, then cool it down. 2) In a separate bowl, mix the butter until white and creamy, then add sugar, then eggs. 3) Mix in 1) into 2) then add flour until there is no visible flour in the mix. 4) Roll the dough out and cool it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, then cut out into shapes and place them on the oven pan. 5) Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees or until you think looks good.
 

White berries and end of the year approaching

When I see white berries, I feel Christmas is already around the corner and saddened a bit how time flies. But I guess in between there was a lot that happened, especially this past year.

 

Buoys

These buoys in the empty water emphasized the summer that is long gone in the coastal Sweden. The neon colors stood out beautifully against the dark cold blue water.

 

 

Red rocks of Sweden

Tracing our footsteps from this past summer, we went to Smögen and climbed the rocks that had led us to our snorkeling spots. I had wanted to see how devastatingly uninviting the winter waters would look like, but I was more impressed by the rocks that we climbed on the way which were easily neglected during the summer in contrast to the spectacularly blue water.

These rocks are very sandy and easy to climb. Some areas had remains of the former sites of stone cutting.

Into the Swedish forest

 

I am back at the summer house in western Sweden. The weather has been the opposite of this past summer, but looking outside the window there was a hint of blue sky today, so we ventured into the forest. There were lots of trees that have been unearthed, likely due to the shallow roots because this area has lots of stone base underneath.

 

 

Deeper into the forest, we came across some last popping of mushrooms but not enough of the edible ones to bring home for dinner.

 

 

We also walked past some olden stone fence that are of no use today and some other pretty sites of old barks and fallen leaves.

 

 

At the end of the forest, we encountered a pair of bulls. We wanted the bulls to come close to us without running us into the fence, but we were too scared to entice them any closer.

 

Spotted

The walkways in the parks were spotted in yellow.

Beautiful in red

 

Red, green, and yellow

Leaves burning in red and yellow amid the green. On the street and at Palmengarten in Frankfurt.










 

Birds of a kind...

 

Frankfurt from above

 

A view of my neighborhood in Frankfurt, taken from a rocket looking skyscraper.

My Frankfurt apartment is slowly getting furnished

 

 

 

Furnishing an apartment takes 2 months more in Germany, as furnitures are built as of when the order is put in. But the apartment is slowly taking shape now. For antique furnitures, below are useful auction websites for purchasing old European furnitures (and sometimes Chanel stuff), but just be aware of the transfer bit to reach your home. As one can imagine, many are shipped out of Denmark.

 

Lauritz

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