Kategori: botanik


  • It’s now when I start to warm up for April. Landscape is still very bleak, but in the garden the first snowdrops are in bloom and a lot of other flowers are coming up. And with almost all of the dirt roads (even those which were not plowed in the winter) are free of snow,…

  • Now that the nights can be quite cold, there’s often mist in the morning. I saw from the weather forecast that the conditions were right and this time I wanted to capture the mist, even if it meant getting up early on a Saturday. This time of the year, the sun doesn’t rise so frightfully…

  • It’s almost a month from my last post. Must be the longest break I’ve ever taken and I’m not happy about it. I mean, all things considered, the blog is not important. It’s the reasons behind the silence. The last time I wrote this weird sickness that hit me. Well, it actually got worse since…

  • Earlier I said that I was feeling some fatigue towards the end of my vacation. I assumed it was because I had pushed my body to beyond what it’s capable of, but I shouldn’t have been so hard on myself – I was already fighting an infection by then. In fact, it had started about…

  • Last night when I checked the weather forecast, it said it would be part sunny with chance of showers. So I woke up with high expectations, was met with grey skies and during breakfast, rain. Ok then, showers started earlier than I anticipated. I packed my gear and drove to Rockvallen, knowing that it would…

  • The weather is getting warmer by now but it’s still overcast, so I thought I would use the light on flowers and waterfalls. The best location for doing both on one trip is Silverfallet in Skärkdalen. The path to the falls passes through some rich mires with many different orchids and other special flora. But…

  • I was running out of paint so I drove to Funäsdalen to get some more. Since it feels a bit wasteful to drive all the way there just to get paint, I then drove to Bruksvallarna to do a small hike. To Kariknallen, which has a season opening today… gotta have a waffle! It turned…

  • I found a green spot yesterday but the place is so mosquito infested that I didn’t want to stop and change the lens because the bugs were eating through my jacket. Today I came equipped with the right lens already mounted and a mosquito proof jacket on, so I was able to shoot in peace…

  • I don’t know if I have any record about doing nothing, but I must’ve been very close to it today. I was feeling lazy, after two days of cycling to work and then cycling some more yesterday, I just did not feel like getting up on the bike again. And with zero ideas for pictures,…

  • Shock, horror, how could I forget to post pale pasque flower pictures when on Monday I finally, after so many years, got to see them again? Having searched for them high and low, and then missed the timing a few times, the happiness was total when the location at Gröntjärn had a grand display on…