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 on the snowy Stockholm streets, the night before Christmas Eve, images of a summer afternoon were brought alive to me in a vivid narration.

“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.” 

                                       - L.M.Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

   

Presented here are some of my feeble attempts to capture the breathtaking panorama that is Stockholm on a summer's day. The places mentioned here are some of suburbs of Stockholm.

Sigtuna        






                                                                                                   




Saltsjobaden



Vaxholm














 

 

 

 

 

 

  

St. Eriksplan






 

Langholmen


 










“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

                                    
                                                                                          - Henry James















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