Autumn Colors

 
 
 

It has been a mild autumn this year. After the "false autumn" in the middle of August, the temperatures rose again and the first half of September felt like Indian summer. Needless to say, the flowers are happy. And I am glad to have some mild days when I could take a comfortable walk outdoors and capture many wonderful gifts in Nature. These photos were taken last weekend.

Yesterday was Anna Lindha's memorial service at the City Hall in Stockholm. Foreign Ministers from around the world, all dressed in black suits, attended the solemn ceremony which included many touching speeches and melancholy pieces of music. The EU environment commissioner from Sweden, Margot Wallström, gave a touching speech in which she said we could still talk to Anna Lindh as her love still lives among us. Wallström is someone who reminds me of Lindh. She is a female politician with a strong will and idealism. She is also a mother and a very beautiful woman. Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and currently an EU commissioner of external relations, also gave an eloquent speech. I was glad to see him on TV as I used to interview him quite a lot when working as a radio reporter in Hong Kong.

My work and studies have been taking up most of my time nowadays so I have become less active online. Things are going well in both areas so far, except for a little bit of a problem with a colleague, who seems to feel threatened by my presence and has not been treating me with kindness. But I hope this will be resolved in time.