summmer vacations when a child

When I was a child the summers were long and full of adventures. Vacations seemed to last for ever and the skin under my feet got hard as leather because of not wearing any shoes.

But now I am a grown up and my vacation will be over on Monday. Luckily I work with what I love.

summer vacation: away from home

For a week we rented a place in the south archipelago of Gothenburg (the middle photo is of the shack in the garden, not the house!). Simple life, smelling the flowers, bathing, fishing crabs, reading. Now we have just one week left of vacation...

summer vacation: more beach

summer vacation: the zoo

the book for "Of Fishes and Birds"

Even though I am on vacation, other people are still working ... Kitty Kilian has done a marvellous job putting together the harmonica book with our prints for the Fishes and Birds project. The first exhibition will be in August.

summer vacation: reading

summer vacation: crab-fishing

I'm on vacation and will be back in August

summer vacation fun: cheese and wine

I'm on vacation...

time for vacation

a cut out made as a sketch for the Happy Family card game (didn't go for this one though). As always it is based on one of my sons abstract paintings with a minimum of addition from me - I just cut out what I find.

Last night our son came home after a week of vacation with his grandma and aunt, which is the explanation to my absence here; you will do something else than blogging at night when you're child-free.

My 4 weeks of vacation starts tomorrow, but I will still pop in here now and then and share images from our summer fun.

I wish you all a great July!