I had a plan for the day:

1. Wood anemone
2. Lunch
3. Check the pasque flowers
4. Bake bread
5. Cycling
6. Watch ice hockey and eats lots of ice cream

1. The wood anemone in my favourite spot were stuck in about the same stage where they were last weekend. It has been a cold week, it even snowed one day, and the wood anemone appear not to have appreciated it. So had a closer look at the buds and found that the way the leaves were curving around the bud was just about as cute as a flower can get (I mean, how often do you use the word ”cute” to describe a flower?) so spent a long while shooting them. I found that I’m probably getting too old for macro photography because oh boy how my knees and back were complaining about the session…

2. It filled my stomach, that’s all I can say about the lunch.

3. I found one pasque flower plant (leaves, no flower), the same one I found last year. I think they’ve died out in this place, but I will check it next year again of course.

4. The bread takes a long time in the oven, so I had time for

5. cycling. I pedalled to Älgsjön, but I took the road which leads to the eastern end of the lake. I’ve never taken this road, so I was surprised to find out that it rises quite high and because the forest has been logged, there’s a great view down to the lake. Will have to come back some calm morning to try to shoot it.

6. So far, Canada beat Norway and Denmark beat Germany. Waiting for Finland to beat Slovakia, please…