Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Valborg, April 30th

Valborg is the Swedes version of Bonfire Night, minus that guy, Fawkes.
Up and down the country bonfires are lit to welcome the spring.
The grass is really dry after the winter, so we had our fire next to a full pond.


4 comments:

Crowbard said...

The spring fire festival in the UK is called Beltane. Nice to have a full moon on May eve.

Nea said...

It was really cloudy, so I missed the moon.
I shall now google Beltane and find out all about it.
Cheers.

Pat said...

I'm guessing that your house is really eco friendly!

Nea said...

It depends on how you look at it.
The freezer is full of homegrown food: blueberries and elk meat. But it is an ancient freezer, so probably not so green.
And we do heat the house partly with homegrown wood, but the smoke we give off is certainly not green.