Yesterday David and I decided to walk to our favourite park Trädgårdsföreningen for lunch in their garden café. It was a perfect spring day and I brought my camera with me to document the entire thing.
Before we arrived to Trädgårdsföreningen we had to cross some bridges and I of course had to take a photo of the view from every one of them. It's a must.

Traffic and skyline from the first bridge.

Trees ready to burst and glittery water from the second one.

A city canal and our goal for the day to the left from the third bridge.

This view from inside Trädgårdsföreningen is one of my most photographed, I think.

And here is Rosenkaféet where we were headed.

Wind in my hair, coffee cup in my hands.

Spot the husband.

David looking way cooler than he is.
Though that might be debatable, he has managers in Hollywood now. Doesn't really get any cooler than that, does it? It's so weird and amazing how quckly things can happen when internet is involved.

When at Trädgårdsföreningen a visit in the Palm house is a definite must.

David trying to make eye contact with some fish.

Hello!

Husband looking all cute.

I mean, look at the severe cuteness!

The Camellia was in full bloom.

Mini citrus fruit of some kind.

Then we went outside again and started our walk back home.

We always walk past this old jewish cemetery but today the normally closed gate was ajar and we took the opportunity to take a look inside. This cemetery is kind of weirdly placed, smack down in the middle of a highly busy area with lots of traffic, trains, trams, cars and buses. The grave stones are very old. Most of them from the 1800's, though we did find ONE from 2012. That must be so weird for the family to visit such an old and abandoned cemetery to mourn because everybody else buried there have been dead for such a long time with no living relatives to remember them.

Most of the headstones were so old that no names could be read anymore.

It was quite the emotional experience to walk around there. Around us city life were going on, but on the cemetery we were completely alone with the long gone.

This tree must have been growing freely for a really long time to be that large. It took up the entire grave area except for the space of the headstone. Weird how they have cut the branches on top of the tree and left the rest. Maybe they feel like the tree is the new life of owner of the grave. That would be quite beautiful, but raises even more questions like why would they "amputate" its body parts then?

I love to find places like this in my own neighbourhood. We have lived here for three years now and this was the first time we've walked past that the gate hasn't been closed. It feels a little bit like we found a secret place right out in the open.

And that was the end of that walk that started off as a lunch date in the park and ended in a much more dramatic tone.
Exactly how I like it. A mini adventure on a weekday!

Until next time:

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Hi!

It's been more than a week of internet madness and I longed for some regular blogging again. I haven't been taking a lot of photos lately, my camera has been collecting dust and my phone is filled with screen dumps of hilarious/sweet/amazing/stupid/weird/awesome comments from all over the internet regarding Lights Out. I might return with another post like the one I did last tuesday.
Lights Out has now gone so viral that we no longer have any clue of it's life in cyberspace. It's making friends with (and scaring the hell out of) people all over the world. I've mentioned the Reaction Videos before but OMG it's such a wonderful thing! Even though some are made in languages that we don't understand a word of the beauty with this kind of film (horror) is that the facial expressions are universal. A scared jump and a loud scream is like the biggest present to us. Yes, creepy, I know but it really is the perfect way of seeing that our work is affecting people.
Everything is still happening so fast that we have no clue of what, and if, this will lead to anything in the future, but THANK YOU internet for doing this crazy thing and changing our lives in so many ways.

Back on track now! I know there's a lot of new people here and Two Two Two is one of the recurring kind of posts I make on this blog.
Let's start then, shall we?

Two views of Gothenburg.
One that I took today while in town, and one from an evening run over the cemetery close to where David and I live.

Two of me when I was just a cute little child.
One of me on my fathers shoulders, and one of me posing for the camera like I was born to do it. (And look at that hat!) These were sent to me by our family friend Lisa who just found these slides when she was looking through old boxes. I think they are so sweet!

Two self portraits.
One looking at people on the street below.
And one in our old and noisy elevator when my hair was having an especially good day. Not like when I was the monster in Lights Out...

And for the people checking out my site for the first time: Hi! I'm Lotta, natural born red head living in Gothenburg, making jewelry, taking photos, making movies and writing scripts with my husband, acting in a theatre group, being an expert on popping popcorn in a pan and making the perfect pot of tea, getting very excited of the small things in life, dreaming of one million things and mixing it all into what is me.

Two of Gothenburg in between seasons.
One afternoon with bright light and fresh air, and one early evening running on a rainy wet cemetery.

Two photos of work for lottalosten.com.
One editing the photos you saw in this post, and one sitting at a café working with my Strangers.

Two of me in my grandmothers old suede coat.
One in the elevator on my way home and one on the season premiere of wearing sunglasses!

This coat has been hanging in my wardrobe over ten years and I haven't used it that much for some reason. But this spring I fell in love with it all over again. It has these short trumpet sleeves that makes it a bit cold on my wrists but the coat itself is quite warm so it's an inbetween seasons coat and that has been perfect for the Gothenburg weather lately.
But I think I can safely say that spring is here now! Yaay!

On wednesday David and I went for a walk into town. It felt like it was ages ago that I brought my camera with me for a day like this so it was about time, right?

We walked through the cemetery Stampen, as we almost always do. It's nice to see the changes of the season. This might be the most sad look of the year; lots of branches on the ground and just a gloomy feel all over. I did get this dramatic photo though.

Hello hello!
It smelled like spring outside and I wore a lighter coat, one of my favourite vintage finds (Yeah, yeah, all my coats are "favourite vintage finds", I know... I can't help that Im so good at finding them!).

Close up of chapped lips and a stray white eyebrow blowing in the wind.
Or, you know, just a photo of my face.

Mossy sign.
Moss and copper are the most beautiful textures in the world, in my opinion.

View from Drottningbron (Queen's bridge). You see the mountain in the back? We live below that and a little bit to the left.

Then we arrived at our goal for the day! The coffee place at Antikhallarna! Their Cardemom cake is simply amazing.

Nom nom.

Beautiful, beardy husband. I love his beard so much! David is scared I might have developed a beard fetish or something. Ha! Maybe?

Hello again from behind the coffee cup.
By the way, I'm a very picky cup person. I prefer some cups before others and I absolutely think the taste is different when I drink from a "bad" cup. This one though: Perfection.
Round, soft shapes, nice glace and good size.
So now you know.

I had brought with me a tin box...

... with my Strangers!
Antikhallarna is the perfect place to find new strangers and I actually did find five new photographs with beautiful and/or weird strangers on them. I might show you soon.

On our way home. We were cold and tired and took the tram. The light in the cart was beautiful and I couldn't resist taking photos.

Sneaky photo of David's phone screen... Sadly he's not reading anything interesting.

David is tired and needs to hold his eyes open to stay awake. Or he's trying to scare me. Who knows, really?

We went to the grocery store and I found the most beautiful pomegranate ever. Look at that deep red colour!

At home again. Just admiring that pomegranate for a while.

Jewelry making thingies.

I had a big jewelry order to get done so I placed myself in the sofa and started working with lot's of tea and something very interesting on teve by the looks of it. I think I was watching Late late show with Craig Ferguson (because I love him!) and it's a good show to watch at the same time as making jewelry. The worst ones to watch while jewelry making is detective shows or thrillers. It's just so hard to follow along in all the twists and turns in the plot when I also need to focus on the twists and turns of the copper wire in my hands!

Apparently it was funny...

Not a very good posture maybe but this is how I'm working most of the time. Until my legs fall asleep.

And that's all that happened that day!

Yesterday I sorted through and cleared out clothes that I don't use anymore and today I went to the charity shop Ungdomshjälpen (Youth aid) close to where I live and gave them a huge bag of clothes. It feels so good because it's been a long time coming.
I was in a spring cleaning fever yesterday and even emptied the kitchen cupboards of old food (some with the expiration date way back in 2010!). Why is there a word for cleaning when spring is arriving and WHY do I get the urge to do just that!? I feel like I've fallen for some sort of spring cleaning trap.
Kind of a good trap, though, so maybe I shouldn't complain...

Hope you're having a fantastic weeekend.

Tjingeling!
/Lotta