For once I have a legitimate excuse for my radio silence — our internet went down on Sunday evening and we were offline until late this afternoon. I don’t mind telling you that those days left me feeling more than a little cut off from the world.

In any case, after our late-night visit to the ER, Yrsa was able to get a better night’s sleep, which helped us all tremendously. The next morning her cough was significantly better, and she’s right as rain now.

Sunday evening, Olof and I went for another late-night drive, but this one was purely for recreation. After the littler kids were asleep, we left Lydia and Tage in charge and drove the five miles or so up to Bureberget, our local “mountain”, to take in the combination sunrise-sunset we get this time of year. It was just a couple of minutes past midnight when I took these pictures, the first looking over our little town, Bureå, and the remaining two looking in the other direction, out over the Baltic. Pictures, of course, can’t do justice to the beauty of it all, but they’re pretty all the same. Give ’em a click for a larger view.