dan collier

Pictures of boats and the archipelago.

The Volvo Ocean Race 2008/2009 came to Stockholm last week. On June 21st, quick “in-port” races were held in Kanholmsfjärden in the Stockholm archipelago (quite close to Bullandö). We went out to watch the races, some images are below.

If you’re wondering about Kanholmsfjärden, it is Kanholm’s fjärd – and a fjärd is “a large open body of water within an archipelago (particularly on the east coast of Sweden).

We spent mid-summer weekend in Bullandö this year. Because mid-summer is the biggest party day/night of the year in Sweden, dancing around the midsommarstången (mid-summer pole or Maypole) was held on Friday.

Here are some pictures from midsommarafton.

Carol and Dan

Carol and Dan, but no notes on this one.

A few years ago, I received a box of my grandmother Selma and my grandfather’s Les’ photos and I’ve started scanning them. Here are some of the first batch I thought folks may like to see:

I tried to scan these images at 1200 dpi but they came out too dark, so these are 600 dpi. To download the highest resolution image, click on the thumbnail and then on the image on the next page.