Birch grove

Last day of having my visiting friend here and we had a full schedule to fill the day. That sounds like a very stressful, tight schedule but, we're pensioners and the three different activities that were on the wishlist was handled with care and given their proper attention.
We had another extremely still and misty morning, like yesterday, but more mist. After a longish breakfast We went to The Garden, my guest hadn't experienced that before and as soon as we got out the door the sun broke through the mist and lasted for the rest of the day. The garden is beautiful at whatever time of year I visit it. Right now it's an autumn garden with lots of flowers still active, Dahlias, Trumpet-flowers, Hollyhocks and so on, mixed with decaying ones, vegetables and som soil already prepared for winter rest. P, my visitor loved this and we spent a long time sitting on the various benches in there, just looking. Extra.

We were invited by a couple of mutual friends on the east side of my island, to have lunch outside in the mild weather, on their veranda. They hadn't seen each other in over twenty years so you might say the conversation flowed very freely during quite a few hours in the afternoon and was only broken up by a quick trip to one of the nearby beaches for a walk, the third item on our list for the day.
On the way there, we stopped and looked at a local open-air dance floor, very typical to the Sweden of the thirties up till about 1970 when they started to fade away as something belonging to the past. This one is called "Björkdungen", The birch-grove. I'm sure you can recognise something similar in your own countries. This is the place you could meet to dance after a hard working week in the country on a Saturday evening. There were coloured lamps hanging in their cables around the dance floor and between the trees and maybe you could buy a sausage and something to drink while listening to the music from the band stand, talking to your friends. This dance floor is still in use a couple of times every summer when the summer guests are here. Maybe some two or three piece band is playing dance music with an accordion, guitar and bass, the local football team sells coffee and buns and people are enjoying a taste of the old times.
Our evening was finished off with a nostalgic film by Robert Altman, "Prairie home companion" with Meryl Streep and Garrison Keillor, among other stars. See it if you want a sniff of the Good ol' radio days.