Kategori: hälsingland


  • Yesterday when I came from work, I found out that I have a new neighbour. Or sub-tenant. A garden spider had woven its web across my porch, I noticed the web just when my legs were already touching it. I was able to back out without breaking it, so I climbed in from the side,…

  • I moved to the countryside (well, a small village) last winter. It means more commuting, but I don’t really mind it – the road was one of my favourites already before I moved and I love watching the seasons change in the bogs and small forest lakes along the way. I’m having the time of…

  • Sometimes I wonder if I’m a little bit agoraphobic. I don’t really have a genuine fear of open spaces but I have noticed that I have a genuine tendency to prefer enclosed spaces – I’m not talking small closets, but wide closed spaces like forests or small lakes. Places like sea shores or big lakes…

  • While most people put on their bikini and headed to the beach to lie in the sun, I put on my boots and rainsuit and headed for a roadside ditch to shoot orchids. The passers-by might have wondered a little while I endured the swarms of mosquitos and biting flies and the personal sauna experience…

  • Since this was just about the first fine summer weekend we are having here, I was determined not let a small flu keep me inside. I set out driving and stopped to look every time something interesting showed up by the side of the road. I felt the effects, I was sweating all the time…