I went on an STF (Svenska Turistföreningen) excursion today. Much of our landscape is shaped by the ice age, and you can see the evidence almost everywhere. So the geologist explained why the landscape looks like it does, and how the features were born. I found out for example that the ancient Baltic Sea reached…

Last autumn when I was planting the bulbs, I had a few of them over so I just put them anywhere I could find, as unlikely as it seemed that they would survive. This ramp with rock walls is one of them, the ramp leads to a barn and the first half of the ramp…

You’ve seen me complain about the cold weather in the recent days and it culminated this morning with snowfall. The snow was all gone when I came home, but now I can see that it has started to snow again and it’s not impossible that the fields are white tomorrow morning as well. The picture…

I’ve been watching this bird cherry to see when the blooms start to appear. I’ll try to get active on naturenskalender.se and add some observations this year. I’m out and about every week, it’s just a matter of noting down when changes happen. This bird cherry however doesn’t require any effort, I shot it from my…

I’ve lived here for over two years and never once reflected on that there’s a date carved in the stone wall of the underground storehouse that I have behind my house. I go past this every day but today for some reason it finally caught my eye.