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Tormestorp, Christmas 1995
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Almost still at -15 °C
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THESE ARE A FEW pictures from Tormestorp in
southern Sweden taken last Christmas (1995). As an experiment, I signed up with Seattle FilmWorks to try their movie stock color film
and PhotoMail Internet scan service. I have to admit that I'm not all that crazy with the
end result, though. The scans are very fuzzy and often have colors that "bleed"
into each other. It's almost as if the images were frame grabbed from video instead of
scanned with a good quality slide scanner. Still, it's quite inexpensive, so I guess you
get what you pay for. 24 pictures scanned at 640 x 480 are $3.95 in conjunction with film
processing or $9.95 without. They also supply you with free viewing software, which you
need because they use a proprietary format. It's OK, but a bit clumsy to work with.
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THIS IS MY PARENT'S house. The bushes you see
along the fence and the ones next to the house are all roses. It's absolutely gorgeous in
the summer and we've had visitors who drove half way across the country to see
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Norra Byvägen 22
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The Big Birch Tree
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OUR BACK YARD IS dominated by this huge birch
tree. It was quite large when I lived there, but it has grown even bigger since then. The
garden is otherwise full of flowers from all over Europe and even has a vegetable section
to the right where we grow potatoes, carrots, radishes, lettuce, rhubarb, and a lot of
different berries. The flowers are my parent's main pride and joy (except for me, of
course ;-) and they spend an amazing amount of time caring for them.
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OUR LIVING ROOM. MY dad
plays the piano in the front left, although not quite as much as he used to. I took some
lessons when I was a kid, but never really got the hang of it. Now, I regret not having
worked harder at it, because I'd really like to be able to play some instrument. As it is,
I can barely clink along on a few memorized melodies.
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Living Room
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Birch View
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IF YOU THOUGHT THAT the birch tree was large
before, check this view out from the window in the right of the previous picture! It
basically takes over the whole viewing field, at least if you stand a little away from the
window and use a telefocus lens. ;-)
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| FINALLY, NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS from the city of Lund in southern Sweden. This is me and
my friend Martin Gren on our way to a Nyårsbalunce at Folkets Park with some of
Martin's 200 closest friends. Skål, broder! (In case you are
wondering, that white dot on my forehead is actually on a little hat that is part of the
mask I'm wearing.)
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Lennart & Martin
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