This morning (first picture) the sunrise was colorful in a clear sky. I had no appointments today and had purposefully completed all my short-term tasks the evening before. This was to be A DAY OFF which, for a retired person, may seem odd—but I have many self-assigned tasks that begin to oppress me if I don’t take the occasional break.

I had been dreaming about the sculpture and art museum, Millesgården, in Lidingö, an island kommun across a piece of water from the kommun of Stockholm, but still part of Stockholms Län (county).

On the way there I had to stop at the post office to mail three things: my 2006 US Federal Tax documents; a book for granddaughters Sonya and Sydney (“A Rumpus in the Garden, featuring Pettson and his cat Findus, translated from the Swedish); and, to sister Diane, two tapes of Thomas Moore on “Education of the Heart.”

Then I treated myself to a sushi lunch near Odenplan and afterward walked through a nearby park to continue my travels on the Tunnelbana to Ropsten, thence to Millesgården via a quaint train line that terminates on the Stockholm side of the water. As I went through the park I saw a few people relaxing in the sun under one of my favorite public statues (pictures #2).

As I left the train I walked uphill through a pretty neighborhood before entering the museum, where there were lot of Russian tourists.

You will see many images from this mostly outdoor museum, several of some subjects, at different vantage points, to accentuate the vastness of the museum and it setting overlooking the waterway below. The works are mostly by Carl Milles, quite famous in Sweden, the USA and elsewhere.

The last few pictures are of the lakeside near our (Eva’s and mine) apartment, showing the ice nearly fully melted and the water birds returning.

It was a great day off.