Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is ~ Jessica Harrelson
For Becca’s Sunday trees theme.
Sunday Trees
Tag: Stockholm
Walk in Silence
Yes!!! the days are dark and the evenings darker. Instead of staying in all the time let us
“For one minute, walk outside, stand there in silence, look up at the sky and contemplate, how amazing life is” ~ Unknown.
For Becca’s Nurturing Thursday this week.
Sunday Trees!
Autumn Trees near Stockholm, Sweden. This post is inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees theme.
Sunday Trees
Inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees theme
Tuesday Trails: 2-11
An evening in Stockholm.
Every Tuesday I upload a picture of a trail or a track or a road. It is so much fun to take a walk and capture the track. Hope you enjoy it. If you like the idea feel free to join.
Stockholm (II)- Swedish Heritage: Vasa Museum (WPC)
Today Vasa is the world’s only preserved 17th century ship and the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The Vasa ship capsized and sank in Stockholm 1628. After 333 years on the sea bed the mighty warship was salvaged and the voyage could continue.
More information on Vasa Museum
Check the information movie at this you tube link
More Heritage entries in WPC
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflecting
My entry for this week’s WPC. The photo is taken at a lake near “Drottningholm Palace”, Stockholm, Sweden.
Travelogue: Stockholm (I)- Woodland Cemetery/Skogskyrkogården
From today I will be publishing detailed posts on my recent Stockholm trip. Writing a detailed post is both time and resource consuming work. I hope you will bear with me. The first post ( which I actually visited on the last day of tour ) is “the woodland cemetery” or as called in swedish “Skogskyrkogården” is one of the three Unesco World Heritage sites in Stockholm.
Skogskyrkogården’s history begins at the beginning of the 1900s, when it became apparent that Stockholm’s cemeteries were insufficient and needed complementing. In1914, the cemetery committee announced an international architecture competition in which entrants were to take advantage of the local topography and woodlands. Nonetheless, this did not mean that entrants needed to restrict accessibility, architectural design or artistic flourish. All elements were to blend in harmoniously. It was also to be easy for visitors to find their way.
Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigrud Lewerentz decided to produce their own entry together. Their entry “Tallum” won the competition and work started a year or so later. Together they created a unity of landscaping and buildings that has become one of the world’s leading architectural sites. Lewerentz was responsible for much of the landscaping. He also designed the classicist Chapel of Resurrectionin the southern part of Skogskyrkogården. Asplund designed the other main buildings: the Woodland Chapel, the Woodland Crematorium with its three different chapels, and the Tallum Pavilion.
Picutres are taken by me but the text is taken from the official pages of the site:
- http://skogskyrkogarden.stockholm.se/in-english/
- http://skogskyrkogarden.stockholm.se/globalassets/dokument/skogskyrk_2014-folder-eng-web.pdf
This is also my entry for Sunday Trees, which is inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees theme.
