Stockholm Summers - A photo essay in shades of blue and green
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” - F.Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby I spent the summer of 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. Oh what a wondrous time it was - magical and mesmerizing. The best days of my life yet. I have lived all my life in the plains of India, where a fleeting spring is overcome by a scorching summer all too soon, sultry days spent in the hope of relief by rains. This was summer in Europe - something I had only read in the pages of a novel, or seen on the silver screen. And it was everything that I had imagined it to be and a lot more. I had earlier penned a blog post dedicated to the Swedish summer titled Of Summer and Dandelions. It is one of my favorite travel stories; about how