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polkagris

Originally posted December 10, 2011, but too wonderful not to share again.

skating on clear ice

The ice on Lake Blanktjärn near Östersund in Jämtland is so clear, that the lake’s bottom — and all the under-ice life — can be seen through four inches of ice. Jonas Landmark and Karin Bäckborns, accompanied by their two excited dogs, filmed their ice-skating tour, a most beautiful account of the clear, perfect ice, under which fish can be seen swimming several feet below.

Watch here; it is pure magic.

a little green

Photo from StockholmStreetstyle via Stine Vikne.

st. lucy's day

Happy St. Lucy's Day.

It's not quite the year's midnight - under the Julian calendar, December 13th was the shortest day - but candles and wreaths are welcome ways to gladden the dark.

Photo found at quiet time.

In other places: a few things I love.

Adolf Hårdh (Finland 1807-1855): Panorama af Stockholm. Lithograph, possibly 1840s. L/S 9.4 x 419.5 cm. Printed on separate sheets, and mounted together (linen-backed) in scroll.

Via the white hotel.

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.

V. Woolf

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful for me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.

Italo Calvino

Why didn't she try collecting something? It didn't matter what. She would find it gave an interest to life, and there was no end to the little curiosities one could easily pick up.

Henry James

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a little green

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