Forest Poetry!

On Sunday we went on another trip to the forest, but instead of going west we headed east. It was a bright sunny day and the forest was so nice and quiet. It is such a great thing to take a break from the city this way. To walk around and discover new things, trying to get more clever when it comes to mushrooms and hear the birds sing. My camera was on a hunt of its own: to capture many great little details.

History Revealing Itself!

It finally happened. After three years apart we are back in the same city, in the same apartment, and now we are trying to build a common home.We have started to tear down the old and soon we'll build up new. It is all very exiting.

While ripping of the wallpaper in the extra room, it was interesting to see all the many layers of wallpaper underneath giving clues of the prior residents and their taste. It is a shame that it is not possible just to peal of one layer and keep one of the ones you like the best.

All Good Things Must Come To An End!

Sadly our stay in New York could not last forever either.
We left at night and flew over Manhattan with it's many lights. Like that it was really easy to see how far the city stretches. Quite impressive and a great way to say farewell.

Blue, Blue, Blue Sky!

Brooklyn Bridge Garden is newly build on some of the old docks near brooklyn bridge. Really lovely place with the view of Manhattan but peaceful on an early spring day. Just what was needed after running around in the city non-stop for a week.
We crossed it by coincidence but what a nice one.

Holiday Food!

Of cause having holidays and going somewhere new also requires eating a lot of delicious food, healthy and unhealthy. Our time in New York was a mixture of eating out and cooking at home, last one allowed us to visit a lot of their fantastic whole food markets, where it is easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of unknown delicious treats.

The most memorable experience was when visiting a diner upstate where we got burgers and milkshakes and was greeted by a nice waitress calling me sweetheart. The all American experience. I am still sometimes dreaming of the chocolate peanut butter milky taste.

Something Resembling Suburbia!

On a very cold but sunny day we went to the outskirts of Brooklyn. First we took the subway to Brigthon Beach. Here we walked on the pier and saw a closed Coney Island. It was quite amazing to walk on an almost empty pier and see the beach lie desolate. I definitely would like to go there at summertime to see it full of life.

Later we took a walk through a part of Kensington and ended up in Green Point late afternoon looking for a shop that turned out not to be open. Luckily it's never too much of a bother when you are just on holiday.