Green Foxy's summer 91
2013

Tripp to Dalarna
Part 4

Mora, Zorn's house, Sollarön, Hårkullor in Våmhus

2013-08-09. Me, walking in Mora.
To Mora and Zorn's house
2013-08-09. Also this morning we had a good breakfast in the hotel.
2013-08-09. We visited the museum in Mora.
2013-08-09. After that we visited the house there the famous artist Anders Zorn lived.
2013-08-09. Zorn's house looks so nice. But we were not allowed to take pictures inside the house.
2013-08-09. Zorn had made the grass in the garden in the shape of a heart. Now the house is a museum. But they still have the grass as a heart.
2013-08-09. A little fountain in the garden.

I like Zorn, because he was a good man. He was always good to people and animals. And he cared for the staff in his house. And he loved his wife.

2013-08-09. Raindrops (I call these for "Rain perls") on the leaves.
2013-08-09. Some houses beside Zorn's house and the tower of the church in Mora.
2013-08-09. Ove walking in Mora.
2013-08-09. The Mora Church. But we were not inside this church.  Ove is standing by the church
2013-08-09. Anders Zorn's grave by the Mora church.
2013-08-09. A sculpture of the skier Mora Nisse
2013-08-09. Mora Church
2013-08-09. I think this tower also belongs to the Mora church, I could not find any information about this church tower
2013-08-09. A statue of Anders Zorn.
2013-08-09. An old engine in Mora.
2013-08-09. The destination port for the Vasalopp i (a ski race) in Mora.
2013-08-09. The Vasalopp house. A museum about the Vasalopp
2013-08-09. Red Riding Hood and the wolf. I saw this book in the display window of the library in Mora.

In my own stories the wolf is nice and no wolf will be killed.

2013-08-09. A sculpture of the skier Mora Nisse
2013-08-09. We had lunch in a restaurant near the destination port for the Vasalopp.
2013-08-09. We had fish in white sauce, boiled potatoes and fresh vegetables.
2013-08-09. I saw these Dala horses in the restaurant. I like them so much.

Sollerö Hembygsgård
and Viking graves

2013-08-09. This is an open air museum.
2013-08-09. Ove at Sollerö
2013-08-09. This bench and table was brand new.
2013-08-09. A Viking grave.
2013-08-09. Me in the area of the Viking graves.
2013-08-09. Me walking in the area of the Viking graves.
2013-08-09. They had a special kind of sheep in the fields by the Viking graves.
2013-08-09. The sheep were looking at us. And we were looking at them.
2013-08-09. Baaaa! :)
2013-08-09. More Viking graves
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2013-08-09. I liked it to be here because we had to walk here.
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2013-08-09. I never have seen these bushes before.
2013-08-09. The chimneys often have a kind of roof in Dalarna.
2013-08-09. Crows in a tree.
2013-08-09. Another chimney. Here you can see a rooster on the chimney.
2013-08-09. Old houses in the open air museum.
2013-08-09. Me reflecting in the window.
2013-08-09. A Viking ship.
2013-08-09. Me by the Viking ship
2013-08-09. Old houses.
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Hair work:
Jewellery made of human hair
And making baskets
 
2013-08-09. In this house you could buy handicraft.
2013-08-09. A woman was making baskets.
2013-08-09. They had 2 sweet dogs.
2013-08-09. Hair work.
2013-08-09. Things made of human hair. They had knitted socks of hair. These kind of socks are water proof. But the socks feels rough.

Unfortunately I have no picture of hair jewellery. But there is a picture in a link down below.

2013-08-09. A museum with 2 life-sized dolls in Dalarna dress.
2013-08-09. Old houses on the area there they make hair handicraft.
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2013-08-09. I big may pole.
2013-08-09. In the rings are 2 baskets because they make baskets here.
2013-08-09. In this ring hair jewellery.
2013-08-09. There was a café and you can sit here and drink coffee or tea.
2013-08-09. The was a little lake on the area.
2013-08-09. It was nice to see the trees reflecting in the water.
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2013-08-09. Here you can see the typical Dalarna chimneys on the roof of the houses.
2013-08-09. A loom.
2013-08-09. I heard the raven in these woods. But I could not see it.
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2013-08-09. Me by the little lake.

Links

Vasalopp = the Vasa race

The Zorn House

Anders Zorn

Hair work in Våmhus

Gravfält Sollerön

© Wilhelmina and Ove Schedin 2016-03-13