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A single sunflower from the garden.
The seed one of many sown by the squirrels in spring
The sunflower spread joy when blooming in the garden.
Then as one of many in a bouquet on the dining room table.
The others faded.
this one continue to share its joy and beauty. Now in the greenhouse.
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A new video posted today:
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We were out walking again today terje and I. One of our 5km+ hikes/walks, the 66th so far this year, we hope to do 100.
Along our hike we passed the house where we lived from 1986 till 2001. Both Ingrid and Marta were born there and the plum tree we planted in August 1989, when Ingrid was born, greeted us as we passed by.
A walk like this has so many aspects. Coming. Going. Looking back. Looking ahead.
My mind is filled with memories tonight.
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Autumn has arrived. Less gardening, which means that creativity find other ways to flow.
I spent a lovely morning up in my studio, starting to make a pattern for an autumn sweater.
Then the afternoon reading in the greenhouse.
I do have a plan to continue to write about our summer holidays in Sweden and Denmark, but not just now.
For the moment the best place to find me is on instagram
my knitting account @brittarnhildsstrikkedagbok
(copy, paste and add in your internet reader)
and the place I really love to be, my brand new greenhouse account
@drivhuset_nederst_i_hagen
And as the days get shorter, the nights longer, I hope to be here in The House in the Woods more regular.
Hope to se you, here and there.
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I've for a few weeks had some problems, or challenges rather, with the possibility to comment on my posts. It should be fixed now, hopefully, and while waiting for my next vacation in Sweden and Denmark post, why not enjoy this beautiful wildflower video.
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A few months ago I did not know where to find the island Fanø. Well, I knew it belonged to Denmark and I knew it was the home of the knit artist Christel Seyfarth. I also knew that the island had lots of old, charming houses. Then, in June, I met Christel at a knitting festival not far from Trondheim. I even interviewed her, for a video I was making for the festival.
You can watch the video here.
After our days in Århus, Terje and I were to head over bro Sjællands Odde, actually just a quite short ferry ride away. But I persuaded Terje that instead of the ferry we could drive "around" and then visiting Fanø would be just a short detour. Well, Terje has worked with roads all his life and he loves to read maps, so I really could not cheat him. But the understood that the "short detour" meant a lot to be, so off we went.
Our first stop on the island, well, second actually, the first one was for coffee and cake :-), was Christel´s yarn store. She knew we were coming, I knew she would be there waiting for us, and since we were early we were almost the only customers, which meant that Christel had time enough to show us around, and to talk knitting.
Before arriving I had decided I wanted to buy yarn and pattern for one of Christel´s lovely shawls. Now the difficult task of choosing came.
Here you see Christel with one of them.
No, it is not the one I bought.
Christel is the founder of Fanø knitting festival, now called Nordby Wooldays Fanø.
Now I have a deram to go back to Fanø for the festival.
I could have spent all day in the shop. But this was only part of our "short detour", we wanted to explore the island before leaving it. I bought my kit and we said goodbye to Christel.
You ask what I bought? Well, here it is:
I have already started, you can follow my progress in my knitting blog "maskerade"
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Ingrid, Marius and the boys wanted to spend the day in the amazement park, Tivoli Friheden. "This is not for us," I said to Terje, "let's go to the botanical gardens instead." Ingrid overheard what I said and told me that there would be more than enough flowers for me at Friheden, actually there was a Flower Festival going on there.
We changed our mind of course, came with them to the park and had the most lovely day. No carousels for us, but walking around, enjoying the flowers and the live, sitting down with coffee and cakes, meeting up with the grandkids here and there, more flowers, and more flowers and more flowers.
Do you want to follow us around?
Ok, here we go.
A greenhouse for two, I would love that in my garden.
What about a green hair wash?
A group of Danish garden artists had designed gardens around the park. Here is Claus Dalby´s White Garden.
Every flower its own jar.
Great idea.
A greenhouse with a double bed. Green leaves as curtains.
Well, I am not quite sure about that.......
Our day in the park was a happy, blessed, perfect one.
Unfortunately, the next day a fatal accident took place, where a 14 years old girl died.
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We have arrived in Århus, Denmark, where we are staying in an AirB&B for a few nights together with our daughter Ingrid, her Marius and our two grandsons, Leander and Milian. All morning today have been spent downtown, the boys are not too keen on shopping and busy streets, but downtown Århus has a gem for children, a huge play part in different sections outside the main library.
Later we went to the beach and tonight Ingrid and Marius will go downtown again for dinner while we will stay at home with the boys.
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What to do when you have a day to spend on the Danish island Fyn? The options are many, so very many. We asked friends, we searched internet and travel books and in the end we felt almost desperate, there were so many things we wanted to do.
But thinking it all over again, the choice ended up being quite simple. It had to be Egeskov Castle.
Here we got both the amazing gardens and the interesting castle. For sure a very good place to spend a day (actually we could easily have spent several days there)
I took loads of pictures. Here is one from inside the castle, from one of the many collections. Being an avid collector (of many things) myself, I never get enough of admiring other collections.
Inside the castle was also Titanias Palace, a dollhouse designed by the British artist Sr. Nevile Wilkinson. Sr. Wilkinsons daughter Guendolen had seen a fairy running under the roots of a tree near their house, Guedolen felt sorry for the fairies having to live in caves, and her father built her this palace.
Who doesn't want a father like this :-)
I am not sure why the palace is in Egeskov Castle now, I do remember having seen it on display in Legoland in Denmark when the boys were smal. I even bought a book about it then.
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