Fall is letting me know that winter is right around the corner. Although I am not looking forward to the lower temperatures as my show title, I Don’t Like Cold Weather, suggests, the colors sure are beautiful.

I took a trip to Tampere with a guy from Solf nicknamed Masse. He plans to take a trip to London in order to visit his sister. Instead of buying a cheap ticket on Ryan Air he is going by moped. We took the trip to look for a motor scooter for him so he [...]

Midsummer is a special time in Finland and the other northern countries. Approaching the solstice the sun barely sets and there are many festivals and parties. In Finland most people gather in summer cottages in the country. I went to two separate summer cottages for midsummer celebrations. At both places we ate dinner, sang songs, [...]

I joined an English speaking tour of some of the buildings at the Stundars Museum where I am a resident artist at Ateljé Stundars. There are many buildings on the Stundars property but we only visited a few. We saw an old farm house, a shop and a herbal healer’s house. The rain made the [...]

I visited the Söderfjärden meteor crater just outside the village of Solf. The meteor struck nearly 520 million years ago. The crater is well preserved and in the 1930s farmers dug canals by hand to drain the crater. Now it is farmland and a sanctuary for migrating cranes. The visitor center is a transported building [...]

This week has been cold and I had hoped that this afternoon would be a bit warmer but it remained chilly. It is strange weather because it is sunny for most of the day. Coming from the dry desert of New Mexico the wet wind here seems to cut right through my clothes. I rode [...]

After forcing myself to get up this morning in order combat jet lag, I started to unpack the one piece of luggage that arrived. I set up my sewing machine and rearranged the studio. There is plenty of space for my needs. I went into town with Peter Båsk to check at the airport for [...]

Mimi and I had the bright idea of heading to the west to have a Valentine’s Day picnic at Bonito Lake. Caught up in the moment we forgot that Bonito Lake is at a higher elevation than Roswell and therefore much colder. After arriving signs that banned picnics, cold snow, and blistery winds greeted us. [...]