The three fern branches. Slowly unfolding. Taking the stage like a song trio. Opening song “Let’s fern again, like we did last summer”. Will that be a hit in the green meadows. An annoying summer hit, bashing your brain. If they sing out of key, will they be eaten up by the jury of cows. Ha de Gött!
This busy little bumblebee gave me a hard time. Never sat down long enough for a picture. Perhaps he is a bumblebee celebrity and doesn’t like paparazzi’s. Ha de Gött!
Found these two pines today. Are they going up against each other or being supportive? Hugging or fighting for the space, like siblings. Two dancers on stretched legs with squirming arms in the wind.
Ha de Gött!
Calm and still water in the early spring morning. Sun has already started to warm the air. Birds singing in tree and bush. Calling for attention, a mate to pass on the DNA. Some has already laid eggs and the parents take turn to keep them warm.
Walking through the forest birds are singing but as I approach the water birds start to scream. Why do seabirds scream? The seagull couple nest out on the little islet in the bay. Safe from most predators but not all. Big commotion when a large herring gull tries to steal the eggs. The smaller seagulls loudly and fearlessly attacks the bigger birds.
After a few minutes calmness returns. I don’t know if the seagulls manage to salvage the eggs and scare the herring gulls off. I guess this was just one of many attempts for the day. With only 9°C in the water I decide not to take a swim.
Ha de Gött!
sits there alone sobbing in crowded city alone sobbing looking down alone sobbing into the dark alone sobbing black display alone sobbing power is gone sodding
Pull you in, like a bee you are drawn.
To their beauty, crave your attention.
Look, see through the lens.
It is here for a short, short time.
Capture the colors with the shutter.
This little flower was a bit difficult to identify. A violet for sure, but there are quite a few. And they are very similar. After some detective work together with my wife, I have concluded it is most likely a Wood Violet (Viola riviniana) also called Dog Violet. You can find it all over Eurasia and in Africa. According to Wikipedia it is the county flower of Lincolnshire, UK. Ha de Gött!
Sometimes it pays to watch where you´re going. Almost stepped on this little beauty. After some investigation I found out it is called Bitter Vetch or Heath Pea (Lathyrus linifolius). In Swedish Gökärt. It is eatable but it suppresses your appetite. In medieval Scotland it was used to still hunger in time of food shortage. A slim slimming flower! Ha de Gött!
Today I share a slide show with some of the pictures I took in the last storm. Featuring music from my son Edvin. This song is named Corporate, piano version. Hope you like it.
Shelter, against the wind Savior, from the deep Alone, on bare rock Stubborn, trough time
This little shelter is called “Enslingen”. Translates to “the loner” or “the hermit”. It is built on the bare rock by the waterfront. Not very much information is to be found about this boathouse. I asked my father-in-law and he had a book with some info. I was expecting exiting stories but it was basically on two sentences.
It was built around year 1900 in this place as the bare rock was perfect to dry the large fishing nets. With the help of sun and wind they soon dried up. Now 120 years later it is a resting place for photographers and hikers in this fantastic natural preserve. Ha de Gött!
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