What October brought

October passed and the Winter may come soon, especially around here. At least I can say that we got drank with all the light we could in this short but intensive Autumn. We went to the Wik castle together with Johannes, Claudi, Benjamin and Gabriel and all around us was blinding yellow, the trees, the falling leaves, the ground covered by them... I think Sweden is a bit chameleonic, it has the ability to change color with the season, and I mean all the color, trees, ground and sky become all the same color, it may be blue in the summer, with the lakes and the sky, and white in the winter, with the snow and the cloudy skies. But about the excursion, the Wik castle stood there, high and elegant, slightly scary, as a premonition for Halloween. Specially when we walked behind the castle, wich was closed, and heard a very quiet piano playing from within the house. This after hearing Gabriel's story about the lady owner who drowned in the lake and stays there as a ghost. Just like when I used to read Bécquer's ghost stories to my little brother and cousins in the Halloween night.
Besides this, we went to the Short Film Festival and saw a program of surprisingly good films about inmigration and, to compensate, another program that was very very annoying. It's usually like that, but it's worth it for the good ones. Anyway, now it's the movie season, as it's dark, so we'll have to find some good films. Or... work in my thesis. Yeah, changing subject (again), we were last week in Spain. And no, dear Swedish friends, it wasn't just sun sun and sun, it rained two days and then well yes, it was more than twenty degrees... ok you may be jealous, mostly for the views from the apartment, the ones I attach. A 90 degree view of the sea and a hugh rock cut somehow by erosion. On the evenings the sunset dyed the rock in orange, the night was extraordinary covered by stars and the sunrise was spectacular, first the clouds turned pink, then, the sun appeared as a fried egg over the end of the rock (so poetic, right?) and finally the sea started to sprinkle drawing the path of the sun over the water. It's good to be home but, strangely, I miss the view, or maybe the sound of the waves. It's quiet now.
And October also brought three babies to some of our friends, so congratulations Maria, Pablo, Marta, Jimmy, Boukjan and Theres!!