Now here is a truly multi-purpose photo, where you can see within a single frame:
- How beautifully September sunlight shines in Sweden..
- …but nevertheless, chilly air makes us wear our raincoats…
- …and (another favorite thought of mine) Swedish landscapes, especially big glacier-scrubbed rocks like this one, remind me of NH, and last but not least…
- …how very sweet-natured Frank Wilczek is to be willing to pose for me in so many different odd places over the years.
2 responses so far ↓
1 TA // Sep 26, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Can’t… resist… asking… must… sign up!
Why, oh why, would any sensible person choose to spend the fall in Sweden?!?
I could understand May through August. I might even be willing to consider a sunny, crisp winter day in late February or March, when the darkness is lifting from the land. But the dreary, wet, gloomy Swedish fall? Noooooooo!!! That’s just cruel and unusual punishment.
There must be a juicy story behind this. Must be. Is it some sort of penance? Or maybe blackmail is involved?
Inquiring minds who’ve lived through far too many Swedish falls want to know.
2 Betsy Devine // Sep 26, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I thought it would be fun to spend the fall in Sweden because it ends up with all the Nobel Prize parties in December.
We spent a week up around Kiruna in December, 2004–even north of the Arctic Circle, I enjoyed the gray light part of each night (from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) So I’m hoping Stockholm’s short days will seem almost long.
Though maybe I’ll eat those words before Lucia Day.