Some of the visitors in the garden

At the bird feeders in my back garden. For Terri´s Sunday Stills Challenge.

The First Spring Flowers

Found some Winter Aconites in the Botanical Gardens this weekend. A sweet sight! Since then we got more snow and yet more is in the forecast for this week.
For Cee´s Flower of the Day and Terri´s Sunday Stills.

Colour Red from 2021

For Terri´s Sunday Stills Challenge.

Winter frost

For Terri´s Sunday Stills.

The year that passed

2022 will not be put in the box for favourite years. Life sometimes takes turns you did not expect. At the same time I don´t want to complain, as others have it way worse coping with their daily life all around the world.

In the first months of 2022 we had a lot of snow and got a real treat with Aurora Borealis.

Spring flowers arrived. A glorius time to be out with the camera. It is a time for ”the first” of every flower appearing.

I finally got time for an operation to remove one of my parathyoid glands and half of the thyroid gland. Both glands had not been doing their job leaving me with all sorts of side effects. Little did I know that this was not the only operation life had in store for me. A couple of weeks before this operation I found a lump in my breast and within a few weeks had a lot of examinations which ended with the diagnosis – breast cancer.

Let´s just conclude that the summer of 2022 was like no other. Operation, recuperation and planning for radiation treatment. And in all this trying to live as normal as possible.

In August I had an exhibition with some of my photos. The exhibition was in one of Carl von Linnés houses here in Uppsala.

During the rest of the year of 2022 my energy has been lower than normal. I have worked the whole time, but been to tired to be out with my camera as much as I usually am. I´m slowly getting back to a slightly altered normality.

So – 2022 was a handful to cope with and hopefully 2023 will be more ”normal”. I ended 2022 and started 2023 with including more exercise and hopefully I manange to incorperate this for the whole year. I´m combining walking with more aerobics and muscle strengthening exercises to keep as fit as possible.

Looking forward to a year filled with fun things and a lot of photo oppertunities and challenges. Took part in an online challenge with the theme ”altered reality”. So much fun!

For Terri´s Sunday Stills Challenge.

Cobalt blue middle

For Terri´s Sunday Still Challenge.

Vivid colours and memories

So many things to be grateful for: My family first of all, hubby and four grown up children. I have roof over my head, food on the table and lovely nature just around the corner. I have a job that I like, with great collegues and students. I live in a country that has a good national healt care system and schools for everyone, just to mention a few things to be grateful for.

For Terri´s Sunday Stills Challenge.

Brown and Dry

Woke up to a white world today. Approximately 15 cm of snow during the night. It will be an interesting expirience to bike to work today.

For Cee´s Flower of the Day and Terri´s Sunday Stills.

A Square Walk in the Forrest

Almost all the leaves have fallen but for a few smaller trees and bushes. For Becky´s #WalkingSquares and for Terri´s Sunday Still Challenge.

Spoky almost invisible silouettes on the lake

Two boats passing by, almost not visible in the mist. I heard them long before I could see them. For Terri´s Sunday Still.