It’s that time of the year where my energy levels dip, almost no matter what I do. I’m trying to get into the habit of going out in the daylight every day, even when it’s all gray and I don’t feel inspired at all.

Today was a sunny day, for a change, so I went for a longer walk after lunch. My half-hour circuit takes me to Starbo park; today I walked onwards to the Nälsta fields. This sculpture in the fields by Lena Lervik is titled “Venus and Nerthus biding their time”. Everybody knows Venus; this sculpture taught me that Nerthus (Nertus, Njärd, Njǫrðr) is a Germanic-Nordic fertility goddess. Here they’re both enjoying the last rays of the autumn sun, before it sinks below the trees in the west.