The gardener

Some of my near and dear say a gardener has passed my way- meaning, am I doing the right job?

Well, I am good at my job and like the work but it is true, it's no big love and so I am not missing the work, when I have my days off. But doing some things in the garden, with plants and flowers I always miss it when I don't have the chance to do so. 

I love to work with them and could be there for hours and one of my dreams still is a little house and a big garden and I am very sure that I could survive this way. Thought I am not professional and just reading a book about gardening once in a while. 

I just do and watch and learn that way and seems to have a good hand with it. 

No, it does not always grow the way I hoped for but that is the way it is for a gardener to see, which plant likes which place and what can you do to make it better, more beautiful and it is absolutely a never ending story as you start each year anew and a garden, even a balcony is never finished. But like the most gardener and hobby gardener we know this is part of what we enjoy. Have the plants survive? What about a new combination of plants and do they like each other this year? Have I bought a good plant and will this seed grow and how fast, how much, how big?

Actually if the GDR was still in existence I had no other choice then to become a gardener as I am handicapped and so we only had a couple of jobs we were allowed to learn and practice. Yes, we were second hand citizen. We have been good enough for the worst job and the stupid one. 

But having grown in a time when it was normal to have a garden to plant vegetable, fruits and herbs, I have learned by my grandmother a big deal how to maintain a garden. 

I guess in the next years I will finally have my own garden as going from balcony to roof garden makes it very likely to make this dream come true. 

And then I will always see the little beauty inside a garden, between the leaves, the branches like you can see on the following pics. And if you look closer you'll see that there is always a little changing.

Enjoy and if you like write me your experiences and thoughts about gardening. 

Love & Light

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Make a break!

Yes, that what was needed as I started a new job and had very much to do and get used to.  Working at a new place is mostly exhausting and in nursing and leading a group too it sure is. But after all it went well but gave me also much to think about what do I want and to remember that patience is important until you are really used to the new working place. Expectations are always high, especially when you're not the youngest. In the same time I just had moved and got used to a new lifestyle, as I used to live alone.

Living in Berlin is always a challenge and as things there always change, so your own impressions and feelings. But it is very interesting for me to see how much my own view on the town has changed in the last years and how far away I got and the result is that I am going to move to another town and place in the next years. Not sure when this will happen, as I just start to make my B.A. in medicine.

The new situation also made me think twice about working in Sweden again and then make it like a half year there and a half year stay in Berlin. But then it would be just to study and live and no work.

But as love life seems to work I also have to think about what happens with us...? Will he come with me? Where does he wants to live? 

Lucky as I am, he also wants to move away in the next years. Not now but in the future. But will it be Sweden? I am not that sure as he never was in Sweden himself and so when I made my break and traveled back to Gothenburg and visited my friends and second family I tried to see and find new things and ways to look at this place I knew. 

Some places do really look very similar to places in Germany and maybe just the roof is different. In town they build a lot these days and so you can discover a new tram line and again that old and new are mixed and next to each other. Also it is something special to have an amusement park in town you'll see when you come from outside Gothenburg by highway.

It is for sure much quieter to live in Gothenburg as in Berlin, thought it can be very lonely too there. And I don't know but I am a bit over the way of living in Berlin and ready for a live with less stress- or better less negative stress. 

Summer in Sweden can be very nice and of course visiting the islands is a must, as there it is really beautiful and peaceful to take a walk. But don't wonder if you won't be the only one.

I saw many friends on these three days and had some wonderful conversations. It always feels like home. And this break was appreciated as it seems I had worked such a long time- thought it was not that long ago that I started the new job. But then I am sure part of the need was, the so called wanderlust and that I was already so over Berlin. I do not feel home any longer there. 

Now I feel much better and hope you can enjoy my pictures and get an idea how wonderful it can be. This town has culture, food, ways to walk, nature and sun and even nice people living there. It is a bigger town as you may imagine and calm but not to calm after all- a bit traffic is always going on. 

Love & Light

first day I arrived late afternoon to have dinner with my dear colleague

second day I started with waiting in the bus station and enjoying the luck of sun and warm weather

in town and around you'll find those big rocks... actually they are no rocks it's what the ground is made of in many parts - stone

the blue bus who always brings me to town as I used to live at my second family in Landvetter and I do really love them

tram and buss stop - Brunsparken- in the centre of Gothenburg

I did well mention some things seems familiar...

a look to the centre from the river... or better from a bridge over the river

just on the other side the harbor and the new tram line

the opera house and the "lipstick" a office block

like I said- old and new next to each other

marine ships next to the harbor

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finally some typical houses.. 

the amusement park and the big ferris wheel and the three Gotha towers...

How could I not get some cake and coffee and a newspaper !

an international sailing competition took place

there is always another boat and you should make sure to be on the right one

your own little boat next to your home- how about that?

a view of the island Styrso Bratten 

inside it look kind of blue

bad  weather- no just salty water!