Travelling all day - to Croatia

I thought the travel home would be the most painful. But after 10 hours and still not landed I doubt. My friend is however the best travel company I could get. So we manage.

The Papillons

Sometimes the most extraordinary unexpected meetings takes place. This time at a busstation - Korsvägen - in Göteborg. A small papillon was freezing and searched for warmth between his owners legs. The poor dog was shaking despite the mild summer eve.

I had to ask and I did: "why does he freeze? It IS summer!"
The owner said he just had a shower and we all burst into laughter.

New clothes at Bettina´s Backyard - May in June

It was about time for new "clothes" at this blog

This is my backyard at home office. The cherry tree is magic. But due to a lot of travels this year I almost missed its full blossom. When one business trip was unexpectedly cancelled I brought my camera and shot this picture. You can see a touch if brownish since some of the flowers already are dead. But it had its beauty anyhow.

I love this backyard and I love to follow the season by taking snapshots of it.

The dirt in the foreground are dead cherry blossoms

Another "imagined" syncronosity effect hitting me - grief

Text written 19 May but I decided not to publish then.

Grief is below the surface. Much closer than you think.

I had a happy morning, sunshine, nice plans for the day and the evening. I was happy for having reconnected to an old business contact I hadn´t seen for 10 years. That typical high energy business management consultant that you always have fun with. That type who trained as much as me by that time - perhaps even more - and who loved discussing gym, biking and swimming. That type you could joke about 40-age-crisis when he was telling me he had started up training for Triathlon. That type you always got stuck with in the corridor whenever we happened to meet which wasn´t very often since we had contracts at different sides of town. That type of contact that always made me feel good the short meetings we had.

I smiled sitting there at the bus watching the landscape and the harbour in morning sunshine. I decided to see if he could be found on Twitter. I did a quick search and first post was linkedIn which was already read. Then I saw the second one and I started to sob hysterical even before opening the link. I didn´t manage to read...I tried...but I couldn´t. Not at the bus.

In my secret garden

Small small maple flowers are raining down on tables and chairs

I am still catching up with life. I had three perfect days full of gardening, sunshine, salsa and gym activities. I sit right now in the arbour watching the afternoon sun over the meadows. The Chinese maple is raining faded flowers over me and my cup of coffee. The plants - these ones hung up in a tree to get away from the 'killer snails' - is happy.

Catching up with the garden and life

I sit this Sunday morning having breakfast and admiring the fading flowers from the examination party. The lilies smells like a tropical garden. The small pink roses has passed out since a day or so. But they still have their own beauty. I like fading flowers as well as fresh ones.

Travelling to work a lovely summer morning

It is Friday morning and I am heading for work having a "quality day" with myself. I am just going to do things I usually not do. Like travel expenses (not so very fun) and reading blogposts, read course documentation, start up discussions at discussion boards etc.