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Plastic pollution

Plastic pollution

A few days ago I wrote about our annual Easter historical walk to the natural preserve, Tjurpannan. I took some nice pictures that i plan to share with you. But as I went through them I saw these pictures that I also took. So what’s wrong with this picture?

Is it the Homo Sapiens in a nutshell? Intelligent enough to invent a fantastic material as plastic. Dumb enough to just dump it in the oceans hoping it will disappear. It doesn’t look very nice and animals can get stuck or swallow it with tremendous suffering before death.

But the biggest problem is when the plastic parts are grind down to small parts, called micro plastic. Fish and animals eat it and it travels up the food chain. They get troubles breeding and can even starve to death when their intestines are damaged. Who is usually in the top of the food chain?

So please don’t leave that plastic on the ground. Pick it up! Ha de Gött!

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Blackbird

Blackbird

Photo taken through a not so very clean window.

Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) is a very common bird in northern Europe. It has even been imported to Australia. Perhaps not so very often considered to be a beautiful bird as it has very little color. I disagree. It is a very beautiful bird and if you get the chance to see it up close you see the patterns in the feathers. The male has all black feathers while the female is more gray.

The male is a loud melodic singer. Sitting high up in the trees trying to impress the females. Not only very good at singing full melodies from early morning to late night. Even if the male always starts its song in a unique tone, it is also a good imitator. The males has singing battles with other males in the nearby territories but always starts with its own tune.

The Blackbird teaches us that there is always more than what meets the eye. Beauty comes in many different ways, it is diverse. We should keep our minds open to the beauty in life.

Happy Easter everybody and ha de Gött!

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A Good Friday Walk

A Good Friday Walk

At the start it was an overcast day. I took the picture just as the bright spring sun started to shine through the clouds.

My parents-in-law has a long standing tradition of the Easter walk. Usually takes place on the Good Friday. Family and friends gather for a walk somewhere in the area to be guided by the older generation in the local history. There is no formal invitation or Facebook group. Where and when is just spread in the old fashioned way, by word of mouth. Some years 20 turn up and some years over 50.

It is a good way to socialize over generations. At the very least three generations are present but some years even five. Also the history of the area and the common people that lived here is preserved for future generations. This year we went to the natural preserve Tjurpannan, that I have blogged of before. The natural preserve was chosen this year to make sure social distance could be kept during the walk.

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Tire

Tire

Tire, down flat
Tire, with holes 
Tire, displaced
Tire, rubber ring
Tire, worn out
Tire, left to rot
Tire,d to be used as dumping ground

We should be kinder to Mother Nature. Ha de Gött!

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Got to go

Got to go

You say I'm full of it
Now enough, I quit
Sat on my bench
Spread your stench
Flies buzzing around
You just making sound
Reading all the paper
Then reused it later
Now forever this is halted
By nature I am bolted

Today I came across an abandoned house and this outhouse. I just start to write and see where the words take me. Perhaps I need to see somebody… Got to go, ha de Gött!

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Transition

Transition

Reflecting scrap stone
Put there long ago
Sharp and cracked
Past and present frame
Ice braking up
Melting in the sun
Spring is coming
Jack Frost yields
But not without a fight

Ha de Gött!

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Buzzard

Buzzard

Soaring up high
Free in the sky
Detached from ground
Watching for prey
Elegantly upwind find
Scanning ground
Food or threat
Free or just hungry
Dinner chased away
I wish I could fly
She wish she could eat

This common buzzard (Buteo buteo) and its mate flies over me several times when walking in nature. To spite me they stay in the sun or behind trees so I can’t get a clear shot. This time I managed to get this okay shot of this fantastic bird.

Ha de Gött!

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