Kategori: norrland
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All this raining has been really good for the mushrooms. You can almost see them grow! For some reason the fly agarics really love the lawn (moss) behind my house. I’ve never seen them in such numbers, and I probably don’t even want to know exactly why they like this location so much. But there…
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Once for a change I thought that I would try to catch some morning light. I think I’ve mentioned before that I really really like a good night’s sleep, so you don’t often see me out and about at sunrise. This morning the sun came up 6am and my best effort was to be on…
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After a cool July, we were all hoping that August would turn out warm. Well, it didn’t. We didn’t even hit 20°C any day. On the bright side, we don’t have any problems with drought… * * * Temperature (High): 18°C Temperature (Low): 9°C Temperature (Average): 13°C Barometer (High): 1015 mbar Barometer (Low): 988 mbar…
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It was such a great weekend, you’d almost be fooled into thinking it’s summer (if it weren’t for the fact that the temperature stayed in the ’teens). Perfect for motorbiking, in other words! Despite the bike, I’m not really a motor enthusiast. Actually, I’m not even a motorbike enthusiast – I just have my Tricker…
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It’s been over two years since my last visit to the Gröntjärn lake, so I was really looking forward to today’s trip. Gröntjärn is one of my all time favourite (photo) locations, and I used to enjoy every visit there. And there were plenty of visits, during those five years I lived in Ljusdal. The…
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The bog star, or grass of parnassus (Parnassia palustris) is a flower that definitely deserves a closer look. It’s not hard to find if you are in an area where it grows (bogs, as hinted by the name) because it’s just about the only flower that is still in bloom this late in the season.…
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The opportunity to photograph the ghost orchid was so unique that I just had to get back there, this time with the zoom lens to capture the environment as well. I should mention that ”ghost orchid” means different flowers in North America and Europe. Dendrophylax lindenii is the American ghost orchid, and Epipogium aphyllum is…
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I only had one more orchid left to find in Loos – the ghost orchid (Epipogium aphyllum). It is probably also the most fascinating of all the orchids, as the English name implies. The Swedish name is skogsfru, literally translated as ”wife of the forest”, the Finnish name metsänemä translates as ”mother of the forest”.…
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It was a rather disappointing July actually, just marginally better than last year. Only the last week of July was really warm (warmest I saw was 32°C in the shade), otherwise it was rather cool with showers on many days. All in all, July was kind of like June inversed (June started warm but finished…
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The candle larkspur (Delphinium elatum) has been on my wanted-list for years just like the nettle-leaved bellflower in the previous post. Except that I didn’t know it was the candle larkspur until today – I’ve just seen this tall blue flower grow behind an enclosed pasture, but never got a closer look. Either I’ve completely…