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Time to concentrate on the main thing – flowers. Considering the slow progress of all flowers in Loos, I figured there was a risk that I wouldn’t find anything interesting (read: orchids) in the mountains. And I was right, the best I could find all day was some lapland marsh orchids which were in the…
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Yesterday I visited the real estate agents that are selling the land I’m interested in. My first offer was rejected, and after a couple of days of consideration I upped the offer. I got a call back an hour later – they said yes! Wow… I’ll be a landowner! This morning I popped in at…
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I’ve no special plans for this year’s vacation – just mountains. I started with a de-tour to Klövsjö, I wanted to check out the Fettjeåfallet waterfall. It was a sunny day so not really ideal for waterfalls, but at least I’d get to see the place. It’s a relatively short hike – about 2 km…
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I’ll be off on a short holiday now, probably no Internet access. I will be able to send tweets from my mobile though, my latest tweet can be seen here in the blog lower down in the right margin. Now you’ll be wondering why on earth I have Twitter when hardly anyone is reading this…
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Take 1 When I set out northbound, I saw some very dark clouds ahead of me. Otherwise it was sunny, so I figured it was just showers and drove on. I ignored the rain, but when the hail started pounding the windshield, I turned back. But I was right, it was just a shower. I…
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It’s midsummer. What better way to use the day off than walk around a bog, in rain, looking for orchids and other plants? Well I couldn’t think of anything better anyway. And I mean that quite seriously! The result was 7 individuals of early marsh orchid ssp. cruenta and about a dozen of early marsh…
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If yesterday was bad, then today was in even worse. More rain, more wind, and more cold. No point in taking the big camera today either, so I was travelling light with the G10 again. We found lots more orchids and a rare fern as well, but because orchids are closer to my heart than…
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The forecast said that it would rain all day and some of it heavy, so I gave up the idea of dragging around the big camera. Instead, I manufactured a rainjacket for the G10, couldn’t go out without any camera at all… We had good day out searching for flowers. I learned two new places…
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You’d think that when you’re standing in a meadow dotted blue with forget-me-nots, it would be easy to find a subject. Nix. I was walking up and down the meadow, growing ever more desperate – it has got to be somewhere here, I just need to find it. And I did. So that’s another flower…
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While most people are busy complaining about the weather, I’m busy photographing. A little bit of rain, overcast, almost no wind, and cool – I couldn’t really ask for more, it’s as perfect as it gets for flower photography. The biggest problem is that the prime flower season hasn’t started yet… but it’s not like…