Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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Uhh… it’s snowing!
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From skis to wheels. Beautiful weather to start the cycling season – last year I was out too early and got a cold. So I took out the bike and it was in great shape, just needed to pump some air and the Scott was good to go. I did a short tour yesterday, didn’t…
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Daphne mezereum English: Daphne or Mezereon Swedish: Tibast Finnish: Näsiä I think that daphne is a special flower. It grows early in the season, it grows straight from the stem in small trees and the scent is enchanting. I could smell the flowers long before I saw them and although I’m normally not a friend…
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It feels like summer already, sunny and warm. I decided to make the most of weather and took a couple of hours off to drive to my old hunting grounds north of Ljusdal. I especially wanted to see Gröntjärn again and I was hoping to get lucky with the pale pasque flowers (Pulsatilla vernalis), normally…
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I went for a short walk in the morning to check out the progress of spring. I found a big bunch of coltsfoot and decided to come back in the afternoon with close-up gear and also try the angle finder for the first time. Said and done, I packed the bag full (and oh boy…
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A rare event – went to Stockholm, only the second time since I moved to Sweden. Had to do some serious shopping but surprisingly, I didn’t blow my whole budget – probably because I didn’t get everything I had on my list. I didn’t buy much that was not on the list, either. That’s also…
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It was snowing this morning. I got up, looked out the window and the world was white, the stuff kept falling heavy. I rushed out without eating breakfast, worried that the snow cover would get too thick to manage with summer tyres if I waited. I was anticipating the snowfall to turn to rain before…
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It’s a beautiful sunny day but the camera stays in the bag. I just went for a walk hoping to see some new growth at last and I wasn’t disappointed. I saw the first butterflies of the year, the first pied wagtail and the first flowers – coltsfoot, naturally. That got me smiling! Yesterday I…
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Looks like the Finnish Eurovision entry is causing quite a stir in Europe (or in Finland, anyway), they even made it to the news tonight. Apparently, Lordi are just too ugly for the European stage and Finns are ashamed of sending such a travesty to the contest (I must have blinked through the part where…
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I made the big mistake of stopping by on Fotosidan. I forgot that the hepatica season has started in the southern Sweden, so the hepatica images are flowing in. They are just as bad as they were last year. To make matters worse, they all insist on quoting some Swedish poem or song or whatever…