The world is spinning faster and faster and now you lot turn up and want to go and party and I have loads of things to do at work and – well, why not? And you’re staying for breakfast as well? Fine. Let's go.
I really like this big apartment house on Marieberg. In a way it is so majestic. The people who live here enjoy a spectacular scenery with the outlook over Riddarfjärden (water) and Långholmen (an island, from where this photo was taken).
If we would move away from the fire escape and into the office building, and take the escalator one floor up and move left this is what we would see. The inside of the office block Fatburen.
Close-up of a fire escape near Medborgarplatsen. 
Here is a closeup of a couple of balconies. I wonder how soon it will take for people to recognise to which building they belong.
Few (if any) people born in Sweden know what it’s like to use 
I once saw a graffiti saying “Only dead salmon follow the stream”. This dove is certainly a live salmon.
Some people are busy elsewhere when they could have 
As I understand it, Stockholm is one of the very few capital cities where hot air balloons are allowed over the city centre. Some day I'll go myself.
The renovation (?) of Vällingby continues and that roof is still there
Here are the drummer boy's friends: Stockholm Landslaget 2007 (the Stockholm national team 2007) playing outside the Sthlm Jazz Festival area.
Some fungal species are used for their psychedelic properties. 
When you've been dancing all night - or have been documenting the underground - it's good to give the old tail coat a thorough airing.
Someone pointed out that our subway is so clean. Judging from how my clothes and my bag and everything else looks when I’ve been down there snapping photos I wouldn’t immediately agree. It does have a relatively fresh look compared to the underground networks of some other major cities in Europe.
In my first Stockholm picture I showed you a cupola on top of a building. The guide said that the house belonged to a bank.
Well it seems the next building along was in fact the headquarters of the bank and the name was in lights on the roof. Do be sure to click on the picture for a clearer view and check out the last letter E.
Mirrors in the ceiling are supposed to be exciting. I don’t know. 
This particular stage is actually the entrance of parking-garage. Who would have guessed ? The somewhat hazy-looking guy is one of the team-members, so you could say that this pic is staged too....
The Swedbank branch office in Spånga offers 
A sleepy morning by Medborgarplatsen (the Citizens’ Square). Most citizens were either asleep or on vacation or preferably both. Incidentally, here’s where former Foreign Minister Anna Lindh held her last campaign rally before being stabbed in 2002. 
After a hectic evening of photogenic suburban services the buses rest at Slussen.
Could have been the last picture from this lens. I foolishly left the camera on top of a road sign in Bredden and realized too late that the bus would sweep by at a few centimetres’ distance. 
Just a few good gymnastic jumps away from here they are putting something in the ground. I guess the yellow ‘house’ is for welding the plastic pipes together. So, what are the pipes for? Central heating or high speed internet access? I heard on the news today that a private person in a small village in the county of Värmland – right on the border to Norway – has Sweden’s fastest internet access with 40 GB. Why? Just for the fun of it and it’s all homemade. I think the yellow pipes are for central heating.
Yet another photo of our lovable City Hall. That tower has a habit of popping up everywhere.
First, I'd like to thank Per Strömsjö for inviting me to contribute to this blog.
I've only spent a few hours in the city in the summer of 2006. Some 28 of my Stockholm photos and an account of my visit can be found on my Baltic 2006 blog.
Here though I'll post a few others that didn't make it there for one reason or another.
When our bus dropped us off in Stockholm, one of the first things I noticed, as we milled around waiting for the canal boat, was this magnificent-looking cupola. According to the guide though it merely belongs to a private house owned by a large bank. I think she said one of directors lived therein.
A bicycle pump is a type of positive-displacement pump specifically designed for inflating bicycle tires. Whatever would we do without Wikipedia? We’ve seen them before, this one is in Spånga. Pumping up, no less. 
Looking towards the fairly new patch - Marievik, standing on the also fairly new Årstabron. Early morning, the water is still calm, the sky is blue - what else could you want ? Oh, yes, the day off of course :-)
Ah, all of a sudden it's there again - down the distance is our city hall! Mind you, we are immensely proud of it.
A statue - or at least its shadow - outside the Property court (regional rent tribunal) in Stockholm at Fleminggatan 14.
Allow me to add a couple of balloons to our celebration. 
While our big sister Stockholm by Pixels is participating in City Daily Photo Blog theme day "The colour red" we at Plenty celebrate the occasion with a pink small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck, aka balloon.
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