current top five
-
recent posts
tags
- architecture
- asplund
- aurora
- autumn
- christmas
- church
- colour
- colours
- conway stewart
- delta
- design
- diamine
- dragon
- esterbrook
- flower
- flowers
- fountain pens
- fountainpens
- functionalism
- giveaway
- history
- ink
- iron
- iron works
- iroshizuku
- j herbin
- lamy
- landscape
- Leuchtturm 1917
- life
- literature
- marlen
- may
- moleskine
- montblanc
- montegrappa
- nature
- noodler's
- notebook
- notebooks
- paper
- parks
- Pelikan
- pens
- photo
- pilot
- poetry
- private reserve
- red
- review
- reviews
- rhodia
- rohrer & klingner
- sailor
- scandinavia
- season
- seasons
- sheaffer
- snow
- spring
- stipula
- stockholm
- summer
- sweden
- travel
- uppsala
- usa
- visconti
- water
- wind vanes
- winter
- Woodland Cemetery
- woodlands
- writing
- yard o led
the dandelion on flickr
the dandelion on facebook
...check out and like the lady dandelion FB page here.
Tag Archives: history
the swedish red
One could almost call this red the Swedish national colour – or at least the national red. The traditional red iron oxide and copper based calcimime paint for country side houses. These were taken at a preserved old farm that … Continue reading
spring
The spring IS here. The warm, reddish, yellow light from the sunset is flooding through my study room window as I write (it is almost 7.30 pm here when I’m writing this). This window is facing west-north-west and in the … Continue reading
Posted in literature, seasons, spring, sweden, vilhelm moberg, writers, writing
Tagged 19th century, books, history, light, literature, photo, scandinavia, seasons, spring, sweden, the emigrants, the settlers, usa, vilhelm moberg, writers
4 Comments

