A remarkable prairie sky and passing snow squalls on thanksgiving evening a couple weeks back.



photos by eric berglund

Been off yonder as of late...hittin the road so to speak. Checkin the status on the northshore; visiting some family; getting some lessons in Swedish bowl carving technique from the sage elder down in Fridley, MN.; relishing the taste of some Surly brew and embracing the fact that we still have some winter left to contend with. All this among other things.

Glimpses of spring, Lake Superior
March 25th, 2009.





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photos by: eric berglund

Colorful birch, standing tall in Munkfors, Sweden- Fall 2008.




photo By: eric berglund

Door of the Biological Museum, Stockholm, 2008


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A couple of gems from our trip to the sunshine coast last year.





Somehow, it is already December and the temps are slipping. A solid -20 celcius while out walking the dog this morning. Needless to say the rivers are frozen stiff. All would be fantastic if it weren't for the craptastic lack of snow; it's not even like we are out shredding or sliding the nordics. Nope. And haven't surfed in a couple of weeks either; albeit a freak swell blew up out of nowhere on Tuesday, with the NOAA forecasting site showing 17' waves on the far northeast corner of the lake. I was stuck in computer land, crunching numbers or making maps or something, but a couple of folks managed to get in on some of the good action. Meanwhile, keepin busy, with plenty o'projects.

Ok, last but not least, do check out the fantastic photography over at 18 year old Morgan Maassen's blog: 'Bogus Blog' and Kyle Lightner's work at his site. Both surfy inspired kats with a keen eye. Great stuff.

photo's By: e.

Watched

Gotland, Sweden
photo by: eric berglund

Bull moose of the Swedish variety seen crossing while we were cruising up
to Sunne from Karlstad, just after my second cousin Stefan told us how they hadn't been seeing many moose these days.

Yesterday's meager windslop session, under sunny skies. Totally expecting more, we settled for what was there.

Trying my hand at some carving.





photo's by: Eric Berglund

Great bike culture in Sweden. Everyday people in every day clothes riding their everyday bikes in all conditions. Just gettin er done. One of many bicycle photos from the trip.


I pretty much couldn't resist poaching this Dilbert strip that was posted over at Moldy Chum the other day.


And in light of a positive looking surf forecast for Sunday, a little clip with some high style points.

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The tools of the trade in an elementary school
wood working classroom in Varmland, Sweden.
Bandsaw and lathe work is left to the teacher.

Ideas

Work in progress



Be creative


photographs By Eric Berglund

Haven't really figured out what to say after spending two weeks in Sweden other than WOW. Roots, culture, history, family, friendly, style, simplicity, art, food...awsomeness. 20 some hours of travel later and a few hours of sleep and back at the home pad. I only took 1,436 photo's while over there, so i might need to do some image management. You can expect a couple more photo's from ''the aspects'' album.

Country red in Varmland, Sweden.



Fall is here, surf's up.

photo By: Eric Berglund

Hej hej. The Fresh Aspect on the road.
Sights and colours from Stockholm and from the island of Gotland.
Check it.

The medieval town of Visby on Gotland

Viking picture stones in Bro