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I was out looking for pale pasque flowers today, after a tip I received. The place was the Sånghussön lake a few km south from Färila, I’ve never been there before but I’m glad I got there now. When I found the flowers though, it was all for naught – they were over. The forest…
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Yup, that’s right. Someone has actually stolen an orchid – the rarest plant in Finland, at that. Suomen harvinaisin kasvi varastettiin The rare (and now stolen) orchid is a western marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis). It is rare here in Sweden as well. For the benefit of those who don’t understand Finnish, the article says that…
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Equipment doesn’t make a photographer, but sometimes a change can serve as a source of inspiration. In the past when I’ve photographed the daphne, I’ve found it a bit of a challenge – whatever I do, it’s just flowers on a stick. Last year I skipped the daphne entirely, but this time I wanted to…
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As far as Aprils go, this was fairly typical. The month started with a period of snowfall, but the temperatures kept above freezing during the day so the snow didn’t stay around for long. From the month’s highest of 51.5 cm it only took 16 days to go to zero. There were still patches of…
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That’s how much my Tricker weighs. And I’m glad it doesn’t weigh a gram more, or I’d have been in a spot of bother. You see, this was my first time out on the motorbike on my own and unsupervised. I drove to the Loossjön parking lot to practise my turns on a gravel surface.…
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It was a dull and gray day with rain in the air, but I wouldn’t let that stop me – I was determined to practise my motorbike skills and get on the road. It turned out that I didn’t need a lot of training anymore – I remembered everything from yesterday, and I got the…
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(Well it’s an obvious post title, so better get it out of the way already.) This was a momentous day – I finally got to ride my motorbike! So, time for the confessions of an MC newbie. I’m sure that every MC rider will laugh at the problems I had, and I’m equally sure that…
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It’s official – we have no more snow. Well, that’s just what my snow meter says, there is no snow around it but there’s plenty of it elsewhere. About 20cm on my front lawn, and then of course behind the house there’s that 1.5m pile that fell from the roof. But the snow cover is…
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My crocuses are finally blooming! Or maybe they have been doing it for days… but they are always closed when I come home from work, and they stayed closed yesterday also as the sun didn’t come out until later in the afternoon when my crocus patch is already shaded. The flowers feel like a colour…
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Every spring, hundreds of cranes gather up in the open fields of Korskrogen, waiting for the winter to release its grip on their nesting grounds. The fields are not really photogenic, so I haven’t even tried to photograph them before. This year I thought I would try, just to have something to remember them by.…