Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or tea? I can offer hot and cold versions of both beverages. How are you?

Rättvik

I’d say that our week have been extraordinary. My daughter’s grandfather is visiting from the US, and we’ve been showing him all of Dalarna these past ten days. I’ve tried to share some of the places we’ve visited this week in my Daily Gratitude Challenge.

I’ve worked four days this week, and during those days my daughter and her grandfather entertained themselves part of the day, and in the evenings we shared a meal together.

I have not spent as much time in the garden this week as I usually do, but I did ride my bike up there a couple early mornings when the others were sleeping.

The mix of sunshine and rain has been very beneficial for the garden. It is growing!

Garlic

Dinosaur Kale

Overview over the backside of the garden, where I have the majority of the raised beds.

We celebrated Midsummer by driving around Lake Siljan, visiting several of our favourite places around the lake. We enjoyed some good food and perhaps a few ice-creams. The weather was perfect 73F/23C.

A flower garland is mandatory for Midsummer Celebrations.

Thank you Natalie for hosting the Weekend Coffee Share. I am looking forward to hearing about your week, and catching up on all the blogs I’ve missed out on this week. Have refill of your beverage and tell me about your week!

Maria

27 responses to “Weekend Coffee Share – Third week of June”

  1. Your garden is looking as lush as ever, Maria. How wonderful your daughter is getting to spend time with her grandfather. Memories to treasure..

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    1. Thank you so much! I am very grateful that grandpa took the time to visit. I already miss him myself, even though he left only a few hours ago.

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  2. Your gardens are bursting with goodness! I’m glad the visit is going well. What a great time to visit Sweden. :) Happy Midsummer!

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    1. Thank you so much! We had a wonderful time. Happy Midsummer!

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  3. Your garden photographs are stunning. Great flower garland picture of yourself, Maria.

    Stopping in from Weekend Coffee Share: Coffee and chapters – Brewing Coffee, Twisting Words & Breaking Pencils

    Happy Sunday.

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    1. Thank you so much! Happy Midsummer!

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  4. Lovely picture of you with the garland. Happy midsummer! Wonderful that the visit is such a good one. How lush and healthy your allotment looks.

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    1. Thank you so much! Happy Midsummer!

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  5. Wow, the garden looks so beautiful and so green! Amazing. It must be a very long drive around the lake, it looks huge! I love your photo, you are very beautiful, Maria! ❤️ Have a wonderful new week. 😊🙏🏻

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    1. Thank you so much John! Without stops the drive takes around 3 hours, we made many stops and it took one day :) It was a wonderful day!

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      1. So nice, a wonderful adventure! ❤️🇸🇪

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        1. Yes! It was :) Thank you!

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          1. You are welcome Maria. ☺️

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  6. I love cavolo nero and nice to see it growing so well. Your plants are blooming. Hope you had a wonderful midsummer! We had our shortest day.

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    1. Thank you! Midsummer was wonderful. We spent it in the vicinity of lake Siljan.

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  7. What a glorious week you’ve had! And you garden is so lush and abundant, fantastic job! Happy Solstice, Maria!

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    1. Thank you! It really was an amazing week.

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  8. Happy Midsummer, Maria. Your garden is thriving and looking great. Thank you for your weekend coffee share.

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    1. Happy Midsummer! Thank you :) Have a great new week ahead!

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  9. What gorgeous gardens — they are appreciating all that sunshine, for sure! It’s lovely to have a grandfather around <3

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    1. Thank you so much!

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  10. […] And Maria offers us coffee (and celebrates Midsummer). […]

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  11. Thank you for the coffee and for the beautiful garden photos! It is flourishing and so rich and green! You will have so much to harvest, such an inspiration! What a beautiful week you had with a grandfather visit!! Sending warm hugs to you all and have a wonderful week! 🤗❤️

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    1. Thank you so much! Have a wonderful week!

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  12. Summer – hooray! The garden looks very healthy, thriving.
    Happy you had such a good time wth your visitor!
    Our daughter visited for a few days (she lives in Scotland) and we so enjoyed seeing her!

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    1. Thank you so much!

      That is wonderful to hear!

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