Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Sky of March




The sky of March is quite and beautiful. The beginning of new life.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The joy of Being

The Joy of Being
If you embrace your shadows
Your light will begin to shine
If you embrace your doubts
Wisdom will shine
If you embrace your fears
Love will fill your life
If you embrace your mirror
Your fellow men and women will join you
If you embrace your body
The Spirit of the Eternal Will manifest itself in Matter
If you embrace your resistances
Suffering will vanish
If you embrace your world
Happiness will rule in the Universe
For your embrace is the energy
That holds all the powerto change,
with a wave of your hand,
The whole of human kind- Mabel Iam

Friendship

A real friend is the person who can enter your heart and touch the highest point of happiness in you, using as tools: her affection, her patience and her passion.
----Mabel Iam

Friday, July 3, 2009

Stormsburg Swedish Midsommar Festival - Taste of Sweden


The downtown area of Stromsburg has a town square in its center. This square forms a park, with lawns and mature trees, where festivals and events are held.








In the center of the square is a two story Swedish style building made of brick with decorative toll painting and the phrase "Valkommen" (Swedish for "Welcome").




The performance





It took us one and half hour driving to Stormsburg, a small town close to Omaha.


Stromsburg is a city in Polk County, Nebraska, located 100 miles west of Omaha, 20 miles north of Interstate 80 on the Pan-American Highway, Highway 81. Fertile farm ground producing corn, milo, and soybeans surrounds this rural city of 1,232 residents. Stromsburg is the largest of four towns in Polk County, with a population of 5,639. The population was 1,232 at the 2000 census.


Stromsburg was settled early in Nebraska history. In 1856, 155 people from Ockelbo, Sweden, sailed aboard the vessel 'Carolina' to a new life in America. After several years in Illinois, some of the people decided to move on to the state of Nebraska, with Swedish real estate agent Lewis Headstrom as their leader. Delighted that the landscape resembled their homeland, they chose to name their new town after Stromsborg, a section of Ockelbo, Sweden. By 1882, two brickyards were furnishing bricks for business buildings, churches, and homes.

In 1966 the Nebraska Governor came to Stromsburg for the Swedish Festival proclaiming it the "Swede Capital of Nebraska", a title that the community still claims.
The downtown area of Stromsburg has a town square in its center. This square forms a park, with lawns and mature trees, where festivals and events are held.