“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn,… Continue reading Quotation Monday #75: First week of August
Author: Anne
Anne is a librarian by day. By night, she reads. She knits. She watches movies and television shows. She enjoys board games. And posting on royal related forums.
Royal Residences: Oscarshall #21
A couple of weeks before I left Oslo, I took a trip to Bygdøy to visit Oscarhall. It is a pleasure palace built for King Oscar I of Sweden-Norway and his wife, Josephine of Leuchtenberg. It is still in use today by the royal family for special occasions, and Queen Sonja has set up an… Continue reading Royal Residences: Oscarshall #21
Gooseberry cordial
I made some cordial last summer with plums and apples – but then I saw this blog post early in July. It is a gooseberry cordial! I immediately went home to my parents and robbed their gooseberry bush. (I asked first. Or maybe said – I will drop by to get your gooseberries. Either way, I informed.)… Continue reading Gooseberry cordial
Quotation Monday #74: Books and summertime
“Come with me,’ Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.” ― Lisa Schroeder, I Heart You, You Haunt Me
Garden flowers
Quotation Monday #73: Summer
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
Summer
A selection of photos from the åast couple of weeks. I moved home from Oslo, and went straight to work. My holiday time is in the end of August… But I still have managed to enjoy the summertime.
Quotation Monday #72: Summer afternoon
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James
Quotation Monday #71: Sunshine
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby