Reflective Promenade

We have a promenade along the river. The facade of the building on the other side used to be rather boring, but in connection with the sculpture festival this year it has been made more interesting with another piece of art installation using mirrors organized in imitation of a barcode.

 

The photographer (i.e. me) facing one of the mirrors,
with the reflection of the park on the other side of the river in the background.

 

 

Photo taken from across the river. You can still see me in the mirror!

 

Military Music Parade walking down the Promenade.

 

More of the parade can be seen here (blog post from 31 May).

Mosaic Monday: Parade

 

 

View more Monday Mosaics at Mary’s Little Red House

After Work Comes Play

To finish off the Laundry Day, there was music and dancing.

The strange instruments are called nyckelharpa  (pl: nyckelharpor)
(key harp, or key fiddle). If you like, you can listen to it here.

Salvation Army Singing Carols

St Lucia Day

On 13 December, we celebrate Lucia*, or St Lucy's Day.
(First link goes to a post at my Island of the Voices blog; the second one to a Wikipedia article.)

Each town has their own official Lucia with maids appointed, and during the weeks before Christmas, they go round singing traditional carols and Lucia songs in different places, outdoors and indoors, according to a schedule; collecting money for charity. This picture was taken at an outdoors concert after dark.

*If you follow this link , you can also listen to one of the traditional Lucia songs.

Christmas Carols

Music is an important part of this time of year, too. These little guys came as a Christmas present from a friend in Germany many years ago. Including the star the whole piece is only 5 cm high. They're standing beneath a lamp on top of my TV!